Fantastic weather here today. My knowledge of English history is improving every day. Wigmore, three miles from where we are staying, and where we walked from this morning was once the effective capital of England and Wales when Roger Mortimer ruled the country before Edward III, whose mother Mortimer was having an affair with, sentenced him to death for treason. The village (bottom photo) shows little signs that it was once the centre of British power.
After lunch near Clun we had our pudding / afternoon tea in the delightful village of Clun. Sitting outside a cafe in the high street it made me realise just what a low profile agriculture now has in the Isle of Man compared to some parts of the UK. Tractor after tractor sped up and down the main street.
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