114 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1908 
EXCURSION TO LUDLOW AND CHURCH STRETTON 
July 23rd and 24th, 1907 
Directors: E. S. COBBOLD, F.G.S., L. RICHARDSON, REV. W. M. 
D. LA TOUCHE, and HENRY T. WEYMAN, F.S.A. 
(Report by L. RICHARDSON, wth notes by C. CALLAWAY, M.A., D:Se:) 
The Members who attended the third meeting were : Mr W. R. 
Carles, C.M.G., F.L.S., F.R.G.S. (President), the Rev. H. H. Winwood, 
M.A., F.G.S., and the Rev. W. Butt ( Vice-Presidents), Mr A. S. Helps 
(Hon. Treasurer), Mr F. J. Cullis, F.G.S. (Zon. Librarian), Mr L. 
Richardson, F.G.S. (Hon. Secretary), Mr E. Talbot Paris (on. 
Assistant-Secretary), Lieut.-Col. J. C. Duke, and Messrs J. M. Collett, 
F.C.S., G. M. Currie, J. M. Dixon, O. H. Fowler, J. N. Hobbs, 
J. G. Phillips, J. W. Skinner, and A. E. Smith; while Messrs J. T. 
Child, R. Heming, and W. R. Storr came as visitors. 
LUDLOW 
The Members arrived at Ludlow at 12.31 p.m. on the Tuesday, 
where they were met by the Rev. W. M. D. La Touche, who was to 
act as Director on the first day of the excursion. 
Before lunch Mr La Touche conducted them to a pit near the 
Station, where the Old-Red marls had been formerly worked for 
brick-making, and made a few remarks on the stratigraphical position 
that the Old Red Sandstone occupies in the geological succession, 
and the conditions under which it was deposited. The extraordinary 
micaceous character of parts of the deposit elicited comment. Mr 
Richardson added a few remarks, after which the Members repaired 
to the Feathers Hotel for lunch. 
After lunch the Church and Castle were visited under the gui- . 
dance of Mr H. T. Weyman, F.S.A. No part of the Church, which is 
dedicated to St Lawrence, and one of the noblest parish churches in 
England, is of earlier date than 1199, and nearly the whole was 
reconstructed in the 15th century. On this account it has a fairly 
uniform aspect." 
The Castle is finely situated on a cliff overlooking the Teme 
(Pl. X. fig. 1). As descriptions of the ruins as they stand at present 
have appeared in so many books’ and papers, it will be unnecessary 
to give another here; but the following outline of the history of the 
castle may not be out of place. 
1 For details of Ludlow Church, see pamphlet, “Ludlow Church,” by H. T. 
Weyman (printed and published by J. C. Austin, 58 Broad Street, Ludlow). 
2 “The History of Ludlow and its Neighbourhood,” by T. Wright (1852); “In the 
March and Borderland of Wales,” by A. G. Bradley (1905), pp. 192-194; ‘“ The Marches 
of Wales,” by C. G. Harper (1894), pp. 212 e¢ segg. ; etc. 
