Clun
Clun is the smallest town in Shropshire with a population of less than 1000. It is on the bank of River Clun. It is usually quite quiet, except for when the Green Man Festival is held in May and the Clun Carnival is held in August.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 680 residents
- Description: town in Shropshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Clun, Shropshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Clun Castle and Clun Town Hall.
Clun Castle
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clun Castle is a medieval ruined castle in Clun, Shropshire, England. Clun Castle was established by the Norman lord Robert de Say after the Norman invasion of England and went on to become an important Marcher lord castle in the 12th century, with an extensive castle-guard system.
Clun Town Hall
Museum
Photo: Jeff Buck, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clun Town Hall is a municipal building in The Square in Clun, Shropshire, England. The building, which is now used as a museum, is a Grade II* listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bicton and Clunton.
Bicton
Hamlet
Photo: Jonathan Wilkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bicton is a hamlet in southwest Shropshire, England, one mile north of Clun. The short River Unk passes through the hamlet. In previous centuries it was a township in the Clun division of the hundred of Clun.
Clunton
Village
Photo: Rog Frost, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clunton is a village in south Shropshire, England, to the east of the small town of Clun. Clunton is situated 2 miles east of Clun.
Whitcott Keysett
Hamlet
Photo: Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitcott Keysett is a hamlet in South Shropshire, England. It is located two miles northwest of the small town of Clun. The western half of the settlement lies in the civil parish of Newcastle-on-Clun whilst the eastern half lies in Clun.
Clun
- Category: locality
- Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.4212° or 52° 25′ 16″ northLongitude
-3.0301° or 3° 1′ 48″ westPopulation
680Elevation
623 feet (190 metres)Open location code
9C4RCXC9+FXOpenStreetMap ID
node 29724442OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2652757Wikidata ID
Q2080822
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Clun” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Clun”
- Basque: “Clun”
- Breton: “Clun”
- Cebuano: “Clun”
- Chinese: “Clun”
- Dutch: “Clun”
- French: “Clun”
- Irish: “Clun”
- Italian: “Clun”
- Ladin: “Clun”
- Latin: “Cluna”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Clun”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Clun”
- Persian: “کلان”
- Persian: “کلون،”
- Polish: “Clun”
- Romanian: “Clun”
- South Azerbaijani: “کلان”
- Spanish: “Clun”
- Swedish: “Clun”
- Volapük: “Clun”
- Welsh: “Clun”
- Welsh: “Colunwy”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Clun”. Photo: MortimerCat, CC BY 2.5.