Editing Ludlow (section)

===18th and 19th centuries===
[[File:Broad Gate, Ludlow - geograph.org.uk - 1744340.jpg|left|thumb|upright|Ludlow had seven gates in its town walls; the only one remaining is the Broad Gate (viewed from the south).]]
The town contained several [[coaching inn]]s, [[public house]]s and [[ale]] houses, leading to court records of some alcohol-induced violence and a certain reputation for excess. Several coaching inns were constructed to accommodate travellers by [[stagecoach]] and [[mail coach]]. The Angel on Broad Street was one such notable coaching inn, where several passenger and mail coaches departed and arrived on a regular basis every week, including the ''Aurora'' coach which departed for London (taking 27 hours in 1822).<ref>[[commons:File:The Angel plaque, Ludlow - IMG 0233.JPG|Ludlow Civic Society]] [[blue plaque]]</ref> The Angel was the last coaching inn in Ludlow to have such coach traffic, following the arrival of the railways in 1852.<ref>Hobbs, Tony (2002) ''The Pubs of Ludlow and neighbouring villages'' p 55</ref> The Angel ceased trading in the early 1990s, though was revived in 2018 as a wine bar occupying a front part of the original establishment. A surviving medieval coaching inn today is the 15th century [[The Bull Hotel, Ludlow|Bull Hotel]] on the Bull Ring. Several other pubs and hotels in the town have historic pedigree, including the Rose and Crown where allegedly a pub has existed since 1102.<ref>[http://whatpub.com/pubs/SHR/4912/rose-crown-ludlow WhatPub.com (CAMRA)] Rose and Crown, Ludlow</ref>

[[Glove]] manufacture was a major industry of the town, peaking in production in 1814.<ref>[http://www.ludlow.org.uk/history.html Ludlow History]</ref>

In 1802, [[Horatio Nelson]] was awarded the freedom of the borough and stayed at The Angel coaching inn on Broad Street, together with his mistress [[Emma Hamilton|Emma]] and her husband Sir [[William Hamilton (diplomat)|William Hamilton]]. The honour was presented to him in a room at the inn, later to be known as the Nelson Room, and he addressed the crowds from one of the bay windows on the first floor.<ref>Farlow, R and Trumper, D (2005) ''Ludlow and South-West Shropshire'' page 86</ref> During the [[Napoleonic Wars]], [[Lucien Bonaparte]], younger brother of the French Emperor, and his family were imprisoned at Dinham House in 1811.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/12/10/napoleons-brother-snared-in-shropshire/ |title=Napoleon's brother: snared in Shropshire|date=10 December 2012|newspaper=Shropshire Star|access-date=30 October 2021}}</ref>

In 1832 Thomas Lloyd, the Ludlow doctor and amateur geologist, met [[Roderick Murchison]] at [[Ludford Corner]] to study the rocks exposed along the [[River Teme]] and on Whitcliffe, advancing Murchison's theory for a Silurian System that he was to publish in 1839.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shropshiregeology.org.uk/sgspublications/Why%20Shropshire%20is%20important.htm|title=Why Shropshire's geology is important|access-date=26 February 2012}}</ref> Immediately above the topmost layer of the marine rock sequence forming Murchison's [[Silurian]] System was a thin layer of dark sand containing numerous remains of early fish, especially their scales, along with plant debris, [[spores]] and [[microscopic]] [[mites]]. In contrast to the underlying sediments of the [[Ludlow Series]] which were deposited in a shallow warm sea some 400 million years ago, the Ludlow [[Bone Bed]] represents terrestrial (land) conditions and thus a fundamental change in the landscape. At the time, this was believed to be the earliest occurrence of life on land. Murchison thus took the Ludlow Bone Bed as the base of his [[Devonian]] System, although over a century later this boundary was to be moved a little higher, the overlying rocks being ascribed to the [[Pridoli epoch|Pridoli]]. The science of [[geology]] has taken a number of local names from these studies and now applies them worldwide, in recognition of the importance of this area to scientific understanding, for example, Ludlow Series. The site is now an [[SSSI]] (Site of Special Scientific Interest) and still attracts international studies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shropshiregeology.org.uk/sgspublications/Table%20of%20Contents%20Proceedings%20No_16.htm#Rosenbaum%20Ray%20Siluria%20Revisited|title=International Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy meeting at Ludlow|access-date=26 February 2012}}</ref> The [[Supereon (geology)|geological interval of time]], the [[Ludlow epoch|Ludlow Epoch]], is named after the town as part of the [[Silurian]] Period.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/GeositesLudlow  |title=Ludlow|publisher=The Geological Society| access-date=30 October 2021}}</ref>