SHUCKLAND
Introduction
Alphabetical
List of Locations |
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Location: |
Prickwillow, CAMBRIDGESHIRE |
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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." |
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Source: |
Vivienne Doughty &
Margret Haynes: 'Haunted Ely' (S. B. Publications, 1996), p.8. |
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Place Name: |
Prickwillow - prob. OE pricca + wilig:
'tree providing willow 'skewers' for thatching'. |