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THE CORNISH PIXIES OF ST. ALLEN
A boy from the village of St. Allen just north of Truro is said to have recounted meeting the Cornish Piskies / Pixies. The boy wandered off to collect flowers in a small valley, lost the villagers couldn't find him for three days. When he was found, he wasn't aware that days had passed, unharmed he spoke of how he had followed a singing bird into the forest, where night fell and he thought he saw stars all around him. The boy then realised that the shining lights around him were the piskies, who led him down to a cave full of riches, gave him honey and sang him to sleep. On waking the boy was back in the valley. See on the Map-olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Cornish_Pixies_of_St._Allen
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CARRICKFERGUS CASTLE
Norman castle overlooking Belfast Lough, besieged by Scots, Irish, English and French. Originally surrounded on three sides by water. Also the location of US naval hero John Paul Jones' capture of HMS Drake from the Royal Navy during the American War of Independence. See on the Map-olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Carrickfergus_Castle THE GIANT'S CAUSEWAY
Around 40,000 interlocking hexagonal basalt columns, said to have been made into a causeway by the Irish giant Finn MacCool so that he could fight the Scottish giant Benandonner. The other end of the causeway is located on the Scottish Isle of Staffa, at Fingal's Cave, with its identical basalt columns. See on the Map-olah Map: The lost lands of Welsh King, Gwyddno Garanhir, lay submerged beneath the waves.
The town of Cantrer Gwaelod had stood below sea level protected by sea walls but a drunken Seithennyn forgot to close them one night and a storm submerged the town as its people fled. See the petrified forest at Ynyslas, as you listen out for the ring of the bells sounding from the lost church. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=The_Welsh_Atlantis_-_Cantre'r_Gwaelod THE OLDEST POST OFFICE IN THE WORLD, SANQUHAR
Sanquhar has the oldest working Post Office in the world, at over 300 years old! It dates back to 1712, having originally been a staging post for mail carriages and has stables behind to rest the horses. So that's over 300 years of continuous service. 1712, that's the year the Duke of Montrose issued an arrest warrant for the arrest of legendary Scottish outlaw Rob Roy McGregor - was it posted?! Whilst Peter the Great of Russia moved the Russian capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg that year, and political philosopher . Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born. See on the Map-olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Sanquhar_-_The_Oldest_Post_Office_in_the_World! MANORBIER CASTLE
Fantastic Norman Castle dating back to the end of the 11th Century overlooking Manorbier beach. Birthplace of historic scholar Gerald of Wales 1146 -1223, who said of Manorbier - 'In all the broad lands of Wales,Manorbier is the most pleasant place by far', he may have been biased but it is difficult to disagree, it is certainly a jewel in Wales' crown. See on the Map-olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Manorbier_Castle Sweetheart Abbey, the Abbey with the romantic name, that commemorates the romance that led to its founding.
When Lady Dervorgilla's husband, Lord John Baliol died in 1268, she had his heart embalmed and placed in an ivory casket that she kept with her. In memory of her husband Lady Dervorgilla made numerous acts of charity, one was the founding of Dulce Cor Abbey - Sweet Heart - Abbey in Latin. When Lady Dervorgilla died, she was buried below the high altar with her husband's heart. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Sweetheart_Abbey Robin Hood's Stone, in Allerton, Liverpool is a single standing stone, that once stood in a nearby field where Tudor Liverpudlians practised their archery.
Henry VIII had made it law that all men under sixty practise archery, and so fields were set aside with mounds to support targets, and where the archers stood to fire their arrows would also be placed a stone to allow the sharpening of arrows. The Robin Hood Stone is one of these stones, which has deep groves cut into its surface where the arrows were sharpened, though these may have begun with natural abrasions to the stone. It is likely that the stone had had an earlier human use, possibly as part of tumulus burial chamber, and has been moved from the location of the Calder Stones several times. The grooves on the stone do not go below the surface, where hollow cup marks were found on the stone. The Robin Hood link is uncertain, other than the link with archery. This is the Archers' stone of Archerfield Road. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Robin-Hood's_Stone_-_Liverpool Lyme Regis is famous for its Fossils, and Mary Anning was the pioneering female fossil hunter - the 'Princess of Paleontology', 1799 - 1847.
She discovered the first ichthyosaur (aged 12), first plesiosaur and first British pterosaur. Her range of scientific discoveries did not gain her the credit they deserved, in the male dominated scientific community at the time. She took on the family fossil business, selling samples to the King of Saxony, and for display at the forerunner to the New York Academy of Sciences, the Lyceum of Natural History. She is buried in St. Michael's church, where there is a window dedicated to her. In 2010 the Royal Society placed her in a list of the ten British women who had most influenced science. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Mary_Anning,_Fossil_Hunter Pevensey Bay, Site of the landing of William Duke of Normandy's fleet of Norman forces prior to the Battle of Hastings, where the Anglo- Saxon Harold II was defeated and William became William I of England and thus William the Conqueror.
The events are shown in the Bayeux Tapestry. See on the Map-olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=1066_-_Pevensey_Bay_-_Norman_Invasion |
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