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Location: Prickwillow, CAMBRIDGESHIRE
Encounter: "Albert Gipp used to see Black Shuck quite often when he was a lad before the last war. He lived with his family in a little cottage on the river bank at Prickwillow and used to watch the huge black hound bounding along the Lark bank in the direction of Ely."
Source: Vivienne Doughty & Margret Haynes: 'Haunted Ely' (S. B. Publications, 1996), p.8.
Place Name: Prickwillow - prob. OE pricca + wilig: 'tree providing willow 'skewers' for thatching'.

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