Jun 3, 2022
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River Eden
Brougham Castle, Cumbria, England, UK
The Bell Tower, Kirkoswald, Cumbria
Driving into Kirkoswald from the south, the Flâneuse was convinced that she had discovered a charming hilltop folly. But she was wrong, and this building has a very particular purpose – it is the belfry to the church in the hollow below, and was built on higher ground so that the church bells could ring loud and clear across the district. As it was clearly also built as an ornament to the…
Bridge over the River Eden Cumbria by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: It crosses the river Eden, and is a lovely place to stop for a while on the B6259 towards kirkby stephens village Cumbria
Bridge over the River Eden Cumbria by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: It crosses the river Eden, and is a lovely place to stop for a while on the B6259 towards kirkby stephens village Cumbria
Vexor Bridge over the River Eden Kent by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: River Eden flowing from Chiddingstone..The River Eden is a tributary of the River Medway in south east England. It rises at the foot of the North Downs escarpment near Titsey in Surrey and runs initially southwards through Oxted before turning eastwards to enter Kent.
30th September
Peg Sneddle
Banshee. Source: Adobe Stock Photos
With the first autumn gales and storms, the season of Banshees commences. A regular feature of Irish mythology, one of the most notable English banshees is Peg Sneddle. Allegedly the shrieking ghost of Elizabeth Sledall, the seventeenth century lady of Crackenthorpe Hall in Appleby, Cumbria, Peg Snedall, after Elizabeth’s death, arose to scream her warnings of the imminent demise of of the head of the Machell family, the owners of Crackenthorpe. In an effort to rid themselves of this curse, the Machels had the body of Elizabeth disinterred and buried in the River Eden, under a huge granite boulder to hold her down. A priest read an exorcism and condemned Elizabeth to enforced rest for 999 years.
This rite only seemed to antagonise Peg, who upped her terrifying act by appearing ominously by the Sledall Oak whenever a member of the Machel family was about to die and began to ride the Cumbrian Helm Wind in a black coach, driven by six coal black, red-eyed and flame-nostrilled hellish stallions. Although the last surviving Machel was killed in the First World War, Peg’s hauntings continue: every year in late September she rises from the Eden and enters Crackenthorpe Hall to terrorise anyone therein.
Peg may be a survival of ancient spirits of evil. Pech in Lowland Scots means faerie, and Cumbria did comprise part of Scotland in the early Middle Ages. There are several other “Peg” banshees in north west England, often associated with rivers and lakes, which lends credence to the theory they are descendants of pagan water goddesses.
£14m Carlisle water mains re-hab reaches penultimate phase The biggest ever revamp of Carlisle’s water mains moves into its penultimate phase from next Monday (September 21) as engineers get ready to drill six metres below the River Eden. Full story: https://www.cumbriacrack.com/2020/09/16/14m-carlisle-water-mains-re-hab-reaches-penultimate-phase/