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Tales and Traditions of the Peak
By William Wood (1862)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

William Wood of Eyam was born on December 6th 1804, at Lydgate House, in Eyam, and died June 28th 1865. Tales and Traditions of the Peak was his third book, published in 1862, 2 years after the reprint of the popular History and Antiquities of Eyam.

All of the following chapters of Tales and Traditions except for "Madame Stafford" are transcribed by Andrew McCann from his own copy of the book . The exception is transcribed by Rosemary Lockie from photocopies very kindly supplied by Tim Rowland.

• Madame Stafford
• Allan and Clara (Murder in the Winnats)
• Bernard Wells (The Maid of Derwent)
• Major Andre and Miss Seward
• William de Rossington or the Battle of Hartington
• Lost Lad, a Tradition of the Woodlands
• Helen the Maniac
• Caels' or Gaels' Wark, or The Scotsman's Cavern, Middleton Dale
• The Battle of Winhill and Losehill
• The Miner and the Ghost
• Prince Arthur, a Tale of Haddon Hall
• The Village Spectre
• Little John
• Lovers Leap, Middleton Dale
• The Witches of Bakewell
• The Death Token, or The Gabriel Hound
• Old Gregory, or The Village Philosopher
• The Miraculous Skull
• Edden or Edwin Tree, a Tradition of Bradwell
• A Churchyard Incident
• Thurston de Bower, a Tradition of Hathersage
• Leech Fend, a British Town destroyed by an earthquake.
• Miscellaneous Poems

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