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Where can you find the ‘Devil’s footprints’? What happened at the ‘hangman’s stone’? Did Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street, ever really exist? Where was King Arthur laid to rest? Bringing together tales of hauntings, highwaymen, family curses and lovers’ leaps, this magnificent guide will take you on a magical journey through England’s legendary past.

‘A fascinating county-by county guidebook to the headless horsemen, bottomless pools, immured adulteresses and talking animals that make up the hidden landscape of the country.’ London Review of Books

‘Evokes an England terrified by screaming skulls, tantalized by hidden treasure, spooked by the unearthly clanging of bells, bewitched by fairies and hobgoblins’ Country Life

‘Wonderful... Contains almost every myth, legend and ghost story ever told in England’ Simon Hoggart, Guardian

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A real treasury...I'm sure I shall plunder it for years to come. -- Philip Pullman. 6th November, 2005

It appears to contain almost every myth, legend and ghost story ever told in England...a wonderful dipping book. -- Simon Hoggart, The Guardian, 12 November, 2005
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Most people, when they read a book like this, are reminded of stories they know, about the places they live(d) in. We would love to hear these. Please send them to me*, telling me who you are, how long you lived in the place you are talking about, and who told you the tradition or where you read it. Send as much information as you can. It helps us build up background history. We can’t tell a lot from ‘our pub is haunted’ but we can from ‘my grandfather used to say ...’ especially if you put in your grandad’s dates.

And if you’ve spotted anything we’ve got wrong please tell me that too.

Jennifer Westwood

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  • ISBN 13 9780141021034
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