Legends of Longdendale
Thomas Middleton
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Length 5 h 30 min
Chapters 23
First published 1906
Legend meets lore at Longdendale, the "long wooded valley" of fabled Cheshire. Thomas Middleton - a dramatist, politician, antiquarian, lecturer, writer, Sunday School teacher and local historian - has preserved for us a collection of wild and perhaps improbable folk tales of chieftains, kings, chivalrous knights, foul villains and fearsome beasts all connected over time in the Longdendale tradition. - Summary by Brian Fullen
Chapters
1
Preface Read by Rita Boutros 3:35
2
The Legend of Alman’s Death: A Tale of Melandra Castle Read by Rita Boutros 22:23
3
King Arthur’s Adventure Read by Rita Boutros 16:13
4
The Legend of War Hill Read by Belinda McReynolds 15:54
5
Sir Ro, of Staley Hall Read by RandyReads 15:09
6
Robin Hood’s Visit to Longdendale Read by Kyle Donelan 13:14
7
The Abbot of Basingwerke, or the Wehr Wolf of Longdendale Read by Brian Fullen 9:31
8
The Devil’s Elbow Read by Tony Scheinman 11:06
9
The Legend of Charlesworth Chapel Read by RandyReads 7:00
10
Sir Edmund Shaa Read by Tony Scheinman 19:12
11
Lord Lovel’s Fate Read by ShrimpPhish 9:50
12
The Raiders from the Border-Side Read by RandyReads 11:26
13
The Legend of Gallow’s Clough Read by Tony Scheinman 22:22
14
The King’s Evil: or the Wonderful Cure of the Mottram Parson Read by RandyReads 11:07
15
The Magic Book Read by NickD 7:29
16
The Parson’s Wife Read by RandyReads 4:52
17
The Devil and the Doctor Read by RandyReads 11:10
18
The Writing on the Window Pane Read by RandyReads 17:20
19
A Legend of the Civil War Read by RandyReads 31:03
20
A Tale of the ’45 Read by Tony Scheinman 14:35
21
The Haunted Farm Read by docdlmartin 12:55
22
The Spectre Hound Read by Tony Scheinman 10:50
23
The Boggart of Godley Green Read by Tony Scheinman 8:52
From LibriVox, read by volunteers and in the public domain. LibriVox page (opens librivox.org) , the text (opens gutenberg.org) , all files on the Internet Archive (opens archive.org) .
