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\nA cute, slumbering market town set in an incongruously wild landscapeWhat\u2019s going for it? When I was a tweenie, I used to read the Lone Pine adventures by Malcolm Saville, tales of derring-do by a secret society of children in wartime Shropshire, set among the moorlands of Wenlock Edge and the Long Mynd. The landscape was as dramatic as the plotlines, a savage character in itself, thrilling to someone like me, exposed only to the benign hills of Buckinghamshire. Truth here follows fiction, or vice versa. Church Stretton itself might be a cute affair, a small, rather slumbering market town of delis and tea shops, decked out in black and white half-timbers. But the Victorians who flocked to the spa here, and began the rambling over the moors that continues to this day, nicknamed the area Little Switzerland. The Long Mynd won\u2019t exactly give the Matterhorn an insecurity complex, but there is a touch of the incongruously wild and gothic about the Shropshire Hills, as if Heathcliff had got lost and wandered a bit far south.The case against A little snoozesome. It lacks the cultural vibrancy of its neighbour, Ludlow. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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