Clun Forest
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Clun Forest is a remote, rural area of open pastures, moorland and mixed deciduous/coniferous woodland in the southwest part of the English county of Shropshire and also just over the border into Powys, Wales.
It was once a large forest covering an area that stretched from Ludlow up the Clun Valley. It now is only forested in some wooded areas, such as Radnor Wood, though a fairly large area of forest exists on the English/Welsh border north of Anchor.
The ancient Offa's Dyke runs north-south through the area (and can be walked by the Offa's Dyke Path).
[edit] A Shropshire Lad
A. E. Housman wrote as part of his series of poems A Shropshire Lad:
"In valleys of springs of rivers
By Ony and Teme and Clun,
The country for easy livers,
The quietest under the sun...
'Tis a long way further than Knighton,
A quieter place than Clun,
Where doomsday may thunder and lighten
And little 'twill matter to one."
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