Legends of Longdendale / Being a series of tales founded upon the folk-lore of Longdendale Valley and its neighbourhood

Thomas C. Middleton

List of Subscribers.

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

I. The Legend of Coombs Rocks.

II. The Legend of Alman's Death.

III. King Arthur's Adventure.

IV. The Legend of War Hill.

V. Sir Ro of Staley Hall.

VI. Robin Hood's Visit to Longdendale.

VII. The Abbot of Basingwerke

VIII. The Devil's Elbow.

IX. The Legend of Charlesworth Chapel.

X. Sir Edmund Shaa.

XI. Lord Lovel's Fate.

XII. The Raiders from the Border-Side.

XIII. The Legend of Gallow's Clough.

XIV. The King's Evil

XV. The Magic Book.

XVI. The Parson's Wife,

XVII. The Devil and the Doctor.

XVIII. The Writing on the Window Pane.

XIX. A Legend of the Civil War.

XX. A Tale of the '45.

XXI. The Haunted Farm.

XXII. The Spectre Hound.

XXIII. The Boggart of Godley Green.

Legends of Longdendale
by
T. Middleton

Legends of Longdendale
By TOM MIDDLETON
Author of “Annals of Hyde”; “Old Godley”, &c. &c.

LEGENDS of LONGDENDALE

Being a Series of Tales
Founded upon the Folk-lore of Longdendale
Valley and its Neighbourhood.

BY
THOMAS MIDDLETON,
Author of “Annals of Hyde,” “Old Godley,” etc., etc.

Should you ask me whence these stories?

Whence these Legends and Traditions?

*******

I should answer, I should tell you,

I repeat them as I heard them

From the lips of Nawadaha,

The musician, the sweet singer.

Should you ask where Nawadaha

Found these songs so wild and wayward,

Found these legends and traditions,

I should answer, I should tell you,

In the bird’s nest of the forest.

*******

All the wild fowl sang them to him,

In the moorlands and the fenlands,

In the melancholy marshes.

*******

In the Vale of Tawasentha,

In the green and silent valley.—(Longfellow).

Hyde
Fred Higham, Printer and Bookbinder, “Cheshire Post” Office,
Clarendon Press.
mcmvi.

Clyx.com