If you are after a great day out then a trip to the Ludlow Marches Festival of Food is a must.You can spend the day enjoying new taste experiences in the impressive grounds of this Norman stronghold, taking the occassional break to stroll round Ludlow's streets and shops to enjoy a host of fringe events.

Ludlow is the first Cittaslow or ‘slow town’ in the UK, which means it is part of a growing international network of towns ‘where it is good to live’. Ludlow has also built a major reputation for gourmet food, so no surprises that it has an active Slow Food Convivium that will be organising Taste Workshops at the festival, essentially tutored tastings of a wide range of traditional English foodstuffs from perry to black pudding.

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