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Ludlow (Market-town and municipal)

a market-town and municipal borough of Shropshire, England, at the Corve's influx to the Teme, 28 miles S. of Shrewsbury. It is a very old and interesting place, with two noble monuments of antiquity: First, the massive Norman keep, 110 feet high, of the castle, where Prince Arthur wedded Catharine of Aragon, and died less than five months afterward; where, in the banqueting-hall, Milton produced his "Comus," and where Butler wrote "Hucaptured by King the Lancastrians, and the Roundheads, it was finally dismantled in 1689. Secondly, the cruciform collegiate church (restored in 1863). Perpendicular in style, with a tower 130 feet high. The grammar school, founded in 1,282, and refounded in 1552 1552, is almost the oldest in Great Britain; and one of seven gates still remains. Pop. about 6,000.