St Chad's, Saddleworth

[poliphilo]

 

This is St Chad's, Saddleworth- where Bill o'Jacks and Tom o'Bills are buried. As if this wasn't enough there's also a Grey Lady ghost. And as if this wasn't enough there's also a legend that the the fairies didn't like the  original choice of site (on nearby Brown Hill) and moved the stones persistently, night after night, until the builders took the hint and built it here.

By the way, the clock is wrong. These pictures were taken at sundown.

 

 

It's a lonely place. There's no village, just a pub next door and a few farmhouses sprinked about the surrounding landscape.

Comments

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

I really love the third picture down, with the sun dappled through the trees onto the graves. Great work.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks- yes, I think that's my favourite too.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

I'm jealous. There is no ghosty history except for the 'supposed' haunting of the Landmark Theatre ( I believe in ghosts but don't believe that story...)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ah, but there must be ghosts, even if nobody's talking or writing about them. Ghosts are everywhere.

[ex-kharin447.livejournal.com]

Thank you for these.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome. We drove out on a whim and then Ailz remembered the Bill o'Jacks grave was somewhere round about- and so what started out as pleasure jaunt turned into a quest. I love old churchyards.

[seaslug-of-doom.livejournal.com]

I'm embarrassed to say that I don't know who Bill o'Jacks and Tom o'Bills are.

Also, I saw my first episode of Rome yesterday. I haven't formed an opinion yet.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ah, I covered them in the post before.

They were the victims of a sensational 1830s murder- a father and son found battered to death in a locked room in an inn on the Yorkshire Moors!