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Sightings of a dragon at Henham-on-the-Mount were reported in a pamphlet of 1669 - "The Flying Serpent or Strange news out of Essex".
Numerous locals were said to have attested to the sighting and further sightings continued after the pamphlet. Find Henham home of the 'Essex Serpent' on the Map-Olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Dragon_of_Henham
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The Tower of London's ravens must stay at the Tower or else the monarch loses their crown and the kingdom will fall.
This legend is said to date back to Charles II, who either he or his astronomer wanted them removed but on being reminded of the importance of the ravens allowed them to stay whilst the royal observatory was moved to Greenwich. Though the links with fortresses, and particularly the Tower of London, and ravens goes back further than that to Celtic times. The lead god/king of the Britons was Bran the Blessed, whose name means raven. Bran when fatally wounded instructed that his head be cut off and taken to the White Hill, the site of the Tower of London to be buried, so as to protect Britain from invasion. Hill forts have been found to have crow, magpie or raven skeletons buried within them seemingly as a way of bringing protection to the fort. A poem that attests to a king who had many of the characteristics of Arthur, though who wasn't Arthur, is said to have fed ravens on the walls of his castle. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=The_Ravens_of_the_Tower_of_London Izaak Walton the 16th Century author of the 'Compleat Angler', on the sport of fishing, lived in this thatched cottage.
Izaak was born in Stafford, and after running a business was able to buy property in his native Staffordshire. The location on the Meece,a tributary of the River Sow, attracted him to the area, as the fishing was so good. The 'Compleat Angler' was published in 1653, and for the last 40 years of his life Izaak visited those who enjoyed fishing, contiuing to add to his work with further publications. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Home_of_the_'Compleat_Angler'_-_Izaak_Walton's_Cottage Directions From here - To herek here to edit. As Advent begins and the Advent Calendars come out and the Christmas Trees and decorations go up, here is the legend of the first Christmas Tree and the miracle performed by the Devonian Saint, St. Boniface in Bavaria in Germany....
ST. BONIFACE AND THE FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE Crediton, Devon, birthplace of Winfrith who became St. Boniface in c672 AD. As an Anglo-Saxon monk he was sent to do missionary work in Germany in the Frankish Kingdom - and began the first organised Christianity in Germany, and today is the patron saint of both Germany and the Netherlands. Legend has it that in Bavaria, Germany St.Boniface saw pagans worshipping around an oak tree on the winter solstice, whereupon he grabbed an axe and cut the oak down - at that moment in the place of the oak grew a fir tree grew. In awe the pagans were converted to Christianity, with the evergreen tree seen as the everlasting love of God. At the next winter solstice the tree was hung with decorations to worship Christmas. See on the Map-Olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=St._Boniface_and _the_first_Christmas_Tree Nottingham Castle home of the Sheriff of Nottingham is the site where Robin Hood was captured and held prisoner.
Robin Hood kept escaping from the castle with the help of his band of 'Merry Men' often using the tunnels and caves below the castle. See on the Map-olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Robin_Hood_and_Nottingham_Castle The flagship of Admiral Horatio Nelson, HMS Victory, at the Battle of Trafalgar (1805).
The oldest warship still in service. See on the Map-Olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=HMS_Victory_-_Nelson's_Flagship Between Land's End and the Scilly Isles is said to lie the submerged kingdom of Lyonesse, inundated in one night of storms.
A sole survivor rode ahead of the onrushing waves to make it to the higher ground at Land's End, his horse shedding a shoe as he raced. The kingdom had been ruled by the father of Tristan, of Tristan and Iseult fame, and all that remains of its capital, are the rocks of the Seven Stones reef now out at sea. Numerous villages and their churches were said to be lost, and on a calm day the bells of the submerged churches can still be heard. As well as the Tristan & Iseult link to Arthurian Legend, Alfred, Lord Tennyson located Arthur's final battle against Mordred in the kingdom of Lyonesse. Still today the remains of bronze villages lay off the coast of the Scilly Isles. See on the Map-Olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=The_Cornish_Atlantis_-_Lyonesse At Beetham in Cumbria are found the Fairy Steps between two sheer faces of limestone, if you can ascend or descend the steps without touching the sides the fairies will grant you your wish.
he fairies can be seen by those who possess the second sight using the steps. Go direct to on the Mapolah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Fairy_Steps,_Beetham Nottingham Castle home of the Sheriff of Nottingham is the site where Robin Hood was captured and held prisoner.
Robin Hood kept escaping from the castle with the help of his band of 'Merry Men' often using the tunnels and caves below the castle to aid his escape back to Sherwood Forest! Holme-Next-the-Sea in Norfolk is an expansive sandy beach and also the site of Bronze Age timber rings, the most famous found in the late 1990s and named 'Sea Henge' by the media. An earlier one was found nearby in the late 1970s, and one only a hundred metres away in the 2000s. 'Sea Henge' had a central focus of an upturned oak with its roots creating a possible 'altar' or place for laying out of the deceased. The later ring may have been the base of a burial mound. Possibly a regional centre for funeral rites at the end of Peddar's Way, similar to Stone Henge in Wiltshire, where the sun sets spectacularly over the sea. Sadly, none of the timbers from the rings can be seen on the beach, 'Sea Henge' was relocated to a museum in King's Lynn and the later ring was allowed to be eroded by the sea. It is still possible to see the Bronze Age peat beds being exposed by the sea and the remains of preserved ancient trees.
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