 Ludlow has a name in the Welsh language, "Llwydlo".Though the town became known as Ludlow, "Fouke le Fitz Waryn" (a 13th-century poem) states that it was called Dinham "for a very long time".The western part of the town immediately south of the castle retains this name, and many historians assume this settlement is Anglian or Saxon in origin, with its etymology meaning a "settlement" (-ham, Anglo-Saxon) "by the [hill]fort" (din, Welsh).