At the crossroads known as Fright Corner there is the legend of the highwayman. A robber who was caught and fled until he stood in front of an oak tree and fought desperately until he was run through by a sword. The sword pinning his body against the tree.
Today, stories of a phantom whose body is pinned against a tree near the corner is still being told. Nearby is a woodland known as Screaming wood. From time to time, the trees reportedly produce screams which send the birds sitting in the branches into sudden flight.
Another tale from the 1920s centered on a group of schoolchildren who were returning home. They discovered the body of their schoolmaster hanging from a tree branch at the end of Dicky Boss Lane. The reason why the schoolmaster took his life was never discovered.
But on certain nights when the moonlight fills the area around the tree, locals state that they have seen a ghostly form swinging from the same branch of the tree in which the schoolmaster hanged himself.
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