Legends of Longdendale

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 1, 2025

In Category - Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

Authors: Thomas Middleton In Year : 1906

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Legends of Longdendale

Preface
The Legend of Coombs Rocks
The Legend of Alman’s Death: A Tale of Melandra Castle
King Arthur’s Adventure
The Legend of War Hill
Sir Ro, of Staley Hall
Robin Hood’s Visit to Longdendale
The Abbot of Basingwerke, or the Wehr Wolf of Longdendale
The Devil’s Elbow
The Legend of Charlesworth Chapel
Sir Edmund Shaa
Lord Lovel’s Fate
The Raiders from the Border-Side
The Legend of Gallow’s Clough
The King’s Evil: or the Wonderful Cure of the Mottram Parson
The Magic Book
The Parson’s Wife
The Devil and the Doctor
The Writing on the Window Pane
A Legend of the Civil War
A Tale of the ’45
The Haunted Farm
The Spectre Hound
The Boggart of Godley Green

Legend meets lore at Longdendale, the "long wooded valley" of fabled Cheshire. Thomas Middleton - a dramatist, politician, antiquarian, lecturer, writer, Sunday School teacher and local historian - has preserved for us a collection of wild and perhaps improbable folk tales of chieftains, kings, chivalrous knights, foul villains and fearsome beasts all connected over time in the Longdendale tradition. - Summary by Brian Fullen