12 shropshire much wenlock

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THE BIG RIDE

In an ordinary county in the English Midlands, one writer found and shared the extra ordinary.

In the early 1970s, I relied on a 1961 Austin Cambridge for weekend jaunts along the salty north Norfolk coast. “Relied” is probably the wrong word, as the car wasn’t exactly reliable. I would make a