About this Item: Hard Cover. When I say “horse”, there was actually a succession of one after another. Tales of murder and a drunken William Shakespeare to feature in society lecture ... Warwickshire Local History Society is kicking off its 2018 lecture season with a talk about the ‘Old … And there for years and years—the narrow windows with their carved brick, fruits and flowers and old leaden gutters, showing the day’s light upon their still retreat—there for years and years slumbered on in their wide flat glass case the Three Sleeping Boys of Warwickshire. St John’s Well used to be a place of pilgrimage. The murder victim at the heart of this gruesome and mysterious tale was 74 year-old Charles Walton, a farm labourer who had lived in Lower Quinton all … The parish church is dedicated to the saints. Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1415 – 14 March 1471) was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur, the classic English-language chronicle of the Arthurian legend, published by William Caxton in 1485. Honily (SP 24 72). Coventry and Warwickshire is steeped in centuries of rich history, giving rise to many colourful myths, legends and traditions. Without any refereeing, the game descended into violent chaos, but Warwickshire came out bloodied yet victorious. The town is also a joy, suffused with history and all the better to explore because of its browsable independent shops. Peter and Paul. However, there was a red horse carved into the hillside above the south Warwickshire village of Tysoe up until about 1910. When Lichfield road was widened the well was rebuilt sometime 13 metres to the west of its original location between 1962 and 1983 it appears and surprisingly no one remembers exactly when or by whom. The legend has been studied by many folklorists, the most notable of which has been Edward Clodd, who produced an entire book on Tom-Tit-Tot (the English name of the story) titled An Essay on Savage Philosophy in Folk-Tale (1898). The earliest one to be mentioned was in 1606 by the cartographer, John Speed. In a place like South Warwickshire, with many villages mentioned in the Domesday Book, myths and legends are bound to still exist. A succession of horses. Warwickshire and Leicestershire contested a bag of gold with a good old-fashioned game of medieval football (some accounts even say the ball was a bag of gold) in a field between the two counties on Shrove Tuesday. The Legend of Rumpelstiltskin is a tale of primarily European heritage, dating back to at least the sixteenth century. Condition: New. St Peter’s Well appears in many old documents. This spa is a pair of springs, one chalybeate, one strong brine. 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