 The current member of Parliament for Ludlow is Philip Dunne, who has held the seat since 2005.McConnel Limited, who manufacture hedge cutting and verge mowing machinery, are based in Ludlow, occupying a sprawling seven-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 (produced in 1945) and a leading producer of reach flail mower hedge and verge mowing power-arm technology.