McConnel Limited, who manufacture hedge cutting and verge mowing machinery,
are based in Ludlow, occupying a 7 acre industrial site in the Temeside/Weeping
Cross area of the town known as the Temeside Works. The company claims to be
the innovator of the first tractor-mounted hedge cutting machine (which was
produced in 1945) and is a leading producer of (reach flail mower) hedge and
verge mowing power arm technology.
Ludlow has a small brewery, producing real ale, located in a former railway
building off Corve Street/Station Drive.
