Hookland 9/2/20 3:57:39

In the 1930s, members of the British Drama League toured the country recording local dialects. The three members dispatched to Hookland recorded more than dialects, but only one of them returned from the county.

Hookland 9/2/20 5:16:33

Everywhere in the county persist little roadside springs still offering water and secret hope. Often you can tell the nature of their spirit or saint from the offerings left at them. Pins, pennies or a withering of crab apples. https://t.co/cclWTKPdj5

Hookland 9/2/20 9:12:21

Ask the locals in the pub and they will tell you that there are no Mire-folk in Ten-Acre Water now days, that‰Ûªs a silly idea as they all died out long back. No, the locals will say, what people are seeing now are ghosts of Mire-folk. – Bob Wellings, BBC Nationwide, 1975