Legends of Longdendale

Thomas Middleton (1872 - 1952)

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

Genre(s): Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

Language: English

Keyword(s): folklore (75), myth (36), Manchester (21), cheshire (4), longdendale (1)

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface Rita Boutros
00:03:35
Play 01 The Legend of Coombs Rocks Rita Boutros
00:23:12
Play 02 The Legend of Alman’s Death: A Tale of Melandra Castle Rita Boutros
00:22:23
Play 03 King Arthur’s Adventure Rita Boutros
00:16:13
Play 04 The Legend of War Hill Belinda Mc
00:15:54
Play 05 Sir Ro, of Staley Hall RandyReads
00:15:09
Play 06 Robin Hood’s Visit to Longdendale Kyle Donelan
00:13:14
Play 07 The Abbot of Basingwerke, or the Wehr Wolf of Longdendale Brian Fullen
00:09:31
Play 08 The Devil’s Elbow Tony Scheinman
00:11:06
Play 09 The Legend of Charlesworth Chapel RandyReads
00:07:00
Play 10 Sir Edmund Shaa Tony Scheinman
00:19:12
Play 11 Lord Lovel’s Fate ShrimpPhish
00:09:50
Play 12 The Raiders from the Border-Side RandyReads
00:11:26
Play 13 The Legend of Gallow’s Clough Tony Scheinman
00:22:22
Play 14 The King’s Evil: or the Wonderful Cure of the Mottram Parson RandyReads
00:11:07
Play 15 The Magic Book NickD
00:07:29
Play 16 The Parson’s Wife RandyReads
00:04:52
Play 17 The Devil and the Doctor RandyReads
00:11:10
Play 18 The Writing on the Window Pane RandyReads
00:17:20
Play 19 A Legend of the Civil War RandyReads
00:31:03
Play 20 A Tale of the ’45 Tony Scheinman
00:14:35
Play 21 The Haunted Farm docdlmartin
00:12:55
Play 22 The Spectre Hound Tony Scheinman
00:10:50
Play 23 The Boggart of Godley Green Tony Scheinman
00:08:52