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EDITION 1 : Ludlow | Leominster | Clee Hill | Tenbury | Aymestrey | Leintwardine | Orleton
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FORMAT
An A1 document folded once horizontally and seven times vertically, to create a handy road map format
28-pages: 14 pages per side
Back-pocket-friendly map format
210mm x 275mm (folded) | 841mm x 594mm (open)
120gsm paper
Printed in Shropshire, UK
CONTENTS
Church, Globe, Wheatsheaf, Charlton - Ludlow
Sun Inn - Leintwardine
Kremlin - Clee Hill
Riverside Inn - Aymestrey
Peacock, Vaults, Tavern, Pembroke - Tenbury Wells
Grape Vaults & Chequers - Leominster
Blue Note Cafe & Granary Tea Rooms - Leominster
Aragon's Restaurant - Ludlow
The Boot - Orleton
The Bell - Yarpole
Roadside Review - Cafes of the A49
SMALL MEASURES
There once was a time where you'd face public humiliation, torture and, at worse, death, if deemed by the Magistrates as a gossipmonger or, in the case of an innkeeper, one who served stale ale or short measures. Last employed in Leominster, the Ducking stool's barbaric legacy seems to have left in its wake many a perfect drinking hole: Grape Vaults and The Chequers possibly the best.
"The Grape Vaults is the ale house that most honestly harps back to those ducking days... though doubtful that today's landlord would have anything to worry about if they so chose to re-instate the infamous stool."
ART OF BREAKFAST
We visit Aragon's Restaurant, the key sponsor who made the Ludlow Street Art 1990 event - which featured work from Goldie, 3D, Vulcan and VoP, a reality - and relive their infamous all-day breakfast.
"It appears an unlikely candidate for the greatest full English in the market town which reports to be the food capital of the UK. It's a similar step aside from the live graffiti art event it sponsored in the autumn of 1990."
THE BOOT | THE BELL
Neighbouring villages of Orleton and Yarpole may well harbour the finest in regional ale hideaways, for the eagle-eyed among us.
"Thankfully, modern pub-land hasn't got a grip on this hidden gem - free of beige clientele and faux leather sofas... It's a proper rural local, so expect everything that whips into the mix with a petite yet picturesque village: On my last visit a gentleman arrived atop a horse smoking a roll-up, parallel parked his stead by tethered it to the pubs big yew and returned with a pint for he and a bag of nuts for his ride."
LAST ORDERS
Murder, suicide, evil conduct and romances gone badly wrong... Ludlows drinking haunts have seemingly had them all. Some say the spirits from these events still remain. Find out for yourself on our creepy crawl of the towns pubs: Church, Blue Boar, Globe, Feathers, Bull Tavern, Wheatsheaf and The Charlton.
"Another lady of the castle, the former Queen of England, Catherine of Aragon has also been associated with the much-seen ghost of The Parish Church of St Laurence, next door to The Church Inn, by far the market towns best pub, sitting slap bang in the middle of Ludlow behind the Butter Cross. Built on one of the most ancient sites in Ludlow it is near here that curious footsteps in the near-by rectory have been heard."
THE BIG APPLE
When visiting Shropshire, most seemingly target their maps and motorcars towards Ludlow alone, and rarely fellow market towns such as Tenbury Wells. This one-time main thoroughfare for trade between Wales and London is the proud home to the region's ever-popular local cider and a line of no-fuss pubs to enjoy a glass or two in: The Peacock, Rose & Crown, Vaults, Tavern and The Pembroke.
"This humble high-street pub seems to be up and running before most have taken delivery of their morning papers, toast and tea. Open all day, seven days a week, serving a wide range of drink, The Vaults is by far Tenbury's most untouched and hardy of drinking habits."
SMELLING OF ROSES
There is hardly a sign that one of this country's bloodiest battles ever took place a stones throw from the valley-embraced Riverside Inn. 4000 men, or so they say, from this War of The Roses lost their lives at Slaughter Ridge which, name-aside, is a rather poignant place of peace and tranquillity to raise a glass of local ale or cider.
"Few clues to this infamous conflict remain today to paint anything other than a place of tranquillity, hung with its oil canvas skies that soar into neighbouring Wales, as you enjoy your Stoke Lacy ale or Wigmore Perry in the garden of The Riverside Inn that - as the name suggests - clings snug to the edge of the gurgling babbles of the River Lugg..."
THE SUN
Staying in and drinking from a can isn't half as fun as popping into town for a few... waltzing into a traditional parlour pub kitchen and pulling your very own pint direct from the barrel surely beats both, hands down.
"It is enough to shame this great nation, as one bold bastion of booze swirls down the plughole after another. And if it not for the commitment of one landlady in deepest Shropshire, the golden memory of the true parlour pub would have too been washed down along with them."
THE KREMLIN
A thousand or so feet above sea level means this tiny Shropshire village spends most of its time with its head literally in the clouds. Cloud-free though it is by far the best place to view the local panoramic landscape, with a pint in your hand.
"It's not the worlds prissiest of pubs. Nor is it quaint. It has little in terms of historical importance too, other than being a former quarry masters house, but in essence this makes The Kremlin - as it is known - oddly perfect!"
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SHROPSHIRE
Clee Hill
Ludlow
Orleton
Craven Arms
Church Stretton
WORCESTERSHIRE
Bewdley
Tenbury Wells
HEREFORDSHIRE
Leominster
Yarpole
Boiler is a traditonal pub & cafe imprint designed by the award-winning team behind RubberDuckMagazine and distributed by Print Peddler - both from Ludlow, Shropshire. 2011
