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Radio Shropshire,07 Jan 2025,4 mins

Shropshire’s lewd ladies

Secret Shropshire

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Do you know the secret of Shropshire’s lewd ladies? If you take a look over the doorways, or in the dark corners of your local church you might find a little stone carving of a “a Sheela-na-gig”. But what are they, and what do they signify? Folklorist and social historian Pamela Thom-Rowe lets Genevieve Tudor into the secret.

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