Excerpt from The History Antiquities of the Town of Ludlow and Its Ancient Castle: With Lives of the Lord Presidents, and Descriptive and Historical Accounts of Gentlemen's Seats, Villages,& C; In the Neighbourhood; With Other Particulars Interesting to Strangers and Residents From the departure of the Romans, to the Norman conquest, history supplies no certain information concerning Ludlow, yet from vari ous written and traditionary accounts it is more than probable that there existed here a town, or fortress, of some importance, previous to the recorded erection of the Castle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.