Clunton

It remains a traditional country pub, with a selection of local real ales; The Crown has an entry in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide 2015.

The herb layer in these woods is typical of this type of woodland with its acid soil and includes wavy hair-grass, creeping soft-grass, greater woodrush, bilberry, ling, hard fern, common cow-wheat and bracken.

[4] In A Shropshire Lad, A. E. Housman used - but did not actually write - the verse:[5] Clunton and Clunbury, Clungunford and Clun, Are the quietest places

Under the sun.North of Clunton Coppice there is a hill fort at Bury Ditches at which is reputed for its views and is a reminder that this area has been inhabited for millennia.

[7] John Osborne (1929–1994) playwright, who wrote Look Back in Anger, lived at The Hurst in Clunton, where he died.