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"CLUN, a parish, market town, and borough, in the hundred of Clun, in the county of Salop, 7 miles from Knighton, and 14 from Ludlow. The parish, which is very extensive, including 13 townships besides Clun, which is the most populous, derives its name from the river Colun, or Clun. In the Norman times it belonged to the Fitz-Alans, earls of Arundel, who erected a castle on an eminence overlooking the river, and exercised the power of life and death."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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