2024-08-10

shewhomust: (bibendum)
2024-08-10 05:50 pm
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A castle of two halves

We might have spent the Sunday of our trip to Shropshire visiting Ludlow Castle; we half planned to do just that. But on Saturday evening, I was poking about the internet, and looking at the English Heritage website, when I came across Stokesay Castle: a short drive from Ludlow, and very impressive:

Ensemble


Surely I had seen this before somewhere? Didn't [personal profile] poliphilo post some photos, long, long ago? Indeed he did, and I noted it then as a place to visit. Well, there's no time like the present...

Visit under the cut, with photos. )

We spent the evening with K., who cooked a classic spaghetti bolognese for us, and we told her where we had been - and admired her late partner's photos of Stokesay, which was a pleasant thing to do.