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I grew up in Wells, Somerset, on the Keward Estate which looked out over rolling fields to a delightful sewage farm. Behind this stands the imposing Hay Hill (http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetma...144500&zoom=3&isp=200&ism=1000&arrow=y?151,86)
We had a pet Chichuahua at the time, Pabby (no, I don't know why he was called that, either) and he would point blank refuse to go up Hay hill, or even enter the fields at the bottom of its slopes. On chatting to a local (memory says he was the farmer who owned it, but I can't be sure) we were informed that no livestock would stay in there, even cows would jump hedges to get out, and the reason for this was that the hill contained huge plague pits where hundreds of victims of the last great plague were buried, and the animals sensed this.
Our next dog would trot about the place quite happily, but I've always wondered about this - The corpses were supposed to be from London, but this seems like an awfully long commute, Bristol or Bath would seem more likely. Anyway, as always, further info welcome! (I haven't been back for 10 years, so it's probably a housing estate now!)
Cheers
Nick
We had a pet Chichuahua at the time, Pabby (no, I don't know why he was called that, either) and he would point blank refuse to go up Hay hill, or even enter the fields at the bottom of its slopes. On chatting to a local (memory says he was the farmer who owned it, but I can't be sure) we were informed that no livestock would stay in there, even cows would jump hedges to get out, and the reason for this was that the hill contained huge plague pits where hundreds of victims of the last great plague were buried, and the animals sensed this.
Our next dog would trot about the place quite happily, but I've always wondered about this - The corpses were supposed to be from London, but this seems like an awfully long commute, Bristol or Bath would seem more likely. Anyway, as always, further info welcome! (I haven't been back for 10 years, so it's probably a housing estate now!)
Cheers
Nick