Yorkshire Oddities

Yorkshire Oddities

Sabine Baring-Gould, Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar (1834 – 1924)


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Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Preface

- Preface To Revised Edition

- The Ghost Of Trinity Church, York

- Peter Priestly, The Wakefield Parish Clerk

- Prophet Wroe

- Bishop-dyke Pond

- Snowden Dunhill, The Convict

- James Naylor, The Quaker

- Old Three Laps

- Christopher Pivett

- David Turton, Musician At Horbury

- John Bartendale, The Piper

- Blind Jack Of Knaresborough

- Peg Pennyworth

- Peter Barker, The Blind Joiner Of Hampswaite

- The White House

- Jemmy Hirst

- The Tragedy Of Beningbrough Hall

- A Yorkshire Butcher

- The One-pound Note

- Mr. Wikes, Of Leaseholme

- The Rev. Mr. Carter, Parson-publican

- Job Senior, The Hermit Of Rumbold's Moor

- Nancy Nicholson, The Termagant

- The Wooden Bell Of Ripon

- Old John Mealy-face

- The Boggart Of Hellen-pot

- Jonathan Martin, The Incendiary Of York Minster

- Brother Jucundus

- Mary Bateman, Witch And Murderess