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The Monster of the Marsh
Dragons! Who doesn’t love dragons? As a boy, I battled them in dreams. As a teenager, I revelled in cryptozoology and Tolkien’s writing. And as an adult fleeing London, yomping with terriers across the otherworldly Lincolnshire Marsh, I was delighted to discover that even in so unpretentious a place there might be monsters.
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Cadeby Hall
This unobtrusive stone marker on the verge of Barton Road (A18 between Wyham and Cadeby) could be mistaken for a milestone. Instead, it is a memorial for a young man called George Nelson, who died on the spot after either being thrown by his horse or trapped under an upturned cart in the roadside ditch
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Tabshag
Old Dawson, or “Tabshag,” the soubriquet by which he was more commonly known, lived with his wife the rather wild existence of a squatter, on the waste. He kept a pig, and was wont to boast that he possessed the highest pigsty and the lowest barn in the country…
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A Missing Folk Tale?
This post’s comment section is specifically for you to discuss vanishing and missing folktales, or share the tales you know, but feel do not get enough attention. Update: this post now has a response from one of our guest bloggers, Virginia Crow, which you can read here. Many places in Lincolnshire feel like they should…
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The Stamford Bull-run
The Stamford bull-run was a town tradition from late medieval times until 1839, when this cruel practice was eventually banned. According to legend, the tradition started in the early thirteenth century, after two bulls were seen settling a romantic dispute over a lovely cow on what is now Town Meadows by William de Warenne, Early…
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Looking for Lincolnshire Authors
Looking for prose and poetry authors with a Lincolnshire connection to contribute to an anthology. Each successful contribution will receive an honorarium upon acceptance.
Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project 