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The Leaning Tower of Surfleet
The tower of St Lawrence’s Church, Surfleet leans towards the main road through the village, which straddles the River Glen.
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The Origins of the Wild Man of Stainfield?
In All Saints’ Church, Bigby, you can see a sixteenth-century alabaster Twywhitt family tomb, depicting a supplicant wild man of the woods, or wodewose. He is attached to a Tyrwhitt family legend…
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The Sebastopol Inn
A local legend has it that a soldier returned from the Crimean War (1853-6), got drunk at the pub, and drowned in a dyke as he made his way home.
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This Ubiquitous Ghost
The ubiquitous ghost in question – which I find my work now haunted by – is known regionally as Black Shuck, Gytrash, Barguest, Moddey Dhoo, Padfoot and Skriker: broadly, the Black Dog. Typically identified as a black canine that might originally appear as a normal dog, but in some way shows itself to be something…
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The Leaning Tower of Dry Doddington
Our research hasn’t discovered many extant folk tales in this part of the county, as you might have noticed from the map. However, the pretty hilltop village of Dry Doddington has the makings of one.
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The Genesis of the 1975 Tom Otter Drama
It was customary for PGCE students to present a play at the Lincolnshire Show at the end of the summer term, and it fell to me to devise and direct that year. To be honest, I was stumped until I happened to catch a performance in Sleaford by a Mummers troupe of the tale of…
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