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Hidden East Anglia:

Landscape Legends of Eastern England

 

Church & churchyard legends:

 

            NORFOLK

                SUFFOLK
Beechamwell ~ The church goddess   Akenham ~ The Devil at the church
Burgh St. Peter ~ The Devil & the church tower   Assington ~ The battlefield church

Dereham ~

             

The tower that flew away

The Christmas bells

  Bentley ~ The priory treasure
Blythburgh ~ The buried bells & other
Dilham ~ Seagar-ma-hole treasure
Great Yarmouth ~ The Devil's Seat Bury St. Edmunds ~ The golden angel
The crock of gold Butley ~ The silver coffin
The crooked spire Carlton Colville ~ The Pirate's Grave
Bloody Queen Mary Chelmondiston ~ The cursed tower
Hilgay ~ Ghost at the church   Coney Weston ~ The fallen tower
Horning ~ The walking statues   Covehithe ~ The faceless lady
Kirby Bedon ~ The friendly statues   Debenham ~ The vanished church
  The churchyard rider   East Bergholt ~ The Devil & the church tower
Martham ~ The church that moved   Halesworth ~ The Devil's tomb
North Walsham ~ Around the church backwards   Iken ~ The hill of devils
Oby ~ The sunken church   Knodishall ~ The shadowy phantom
Swanton Morley ~ The Devil at the church   Leiston ~ The abbey treasure
Tilney All Saints ~ The giant's grave   Lidgate ~ The lost church
Upper Sheringham ~ The church mermaid   Lowestoft ~ The iron-railed tomb
Walpole St. Peter ~ Giant Hickathrift's effigy   North Cove ~ Sleepless in St. Botolph's
Walsoken ~ King John's jewels   Oulton ~ The atheist's tomb
West Caister ~ The Maiden's Tomb   St. James South Elmham ~ The Devil's escape
West Walton ~ The stolen tower   Stonham Aspal ~ The Devil & the church tower
Wickhampton ~ Wicked Hampton & Hell Fire Gate   Syleham ~ The church the Devil moved
Worstead ~ The White Lady of Christmas   Westleton ~ The Witch's Stone
      Westley ~ The White Lady at the old church
     

                   CAMBRIDGESHIRE

 

ESSEX

Cottenham ~ The moving church Ashingdon ~ The bloodstained hill
Great Abington ~ Sunken Church Field Basildon ~ The red monk
Kingston ~ Cromwell's crack Beauchamp Roding ~ The stone that went up the hill
March ~ The Devil, the church & the cross Brightlingsea ~ The tree from the tomb
Reach ~ The Devil at Reach church Broomfield ~ Dragon's Foot Field
Steeple Morden ~ The spire & the well The Devil's Head
Stow cum Quy ~ The Devil & Quy church Canewdon ~ Legends of the witches
Thriplow ~ The Devil & the church Chelmsford ~ Running round the church
Tydd St. Giles ~ The Devil's tower Chrishall ~ The plague tree
Clavering ~ Another tree from a tomb
The fallen knight
Danbury ~ The Devil & the church bell
Great Chesterford ~ The sunken church
Great Waltham ~ Another moving church
Hatfield Peverel ~ Cheating the Devil in church
Leigh on Sea ~ The Cutlass Stone
Marks Tey ~ The timber tower
Matching ~ A church that moved
Pitsea ~ The monk on the mount
Runwell ~

The Devil at the church

The Devil's clawmarks
Circling the church
Steeple ~ The Devil's handprint
Steeple Bumpstead ~ The lost spire
Tolleshunt Knights ~ The Devil at Barn Hall
Wix ~ The Devil & the church tower
Wrabness ~ The Devil & another church tower

 

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