Legends of Longdendale
by
T. Middleton


Legends of Longdendale
By TOM MIDDLETON
Author of “Annals of Hyde”; “Old Godley”, &c. &c.


LEGENDS of LONGDENDALE

Being a Series of Tales
Founded upon the Folk-lore of Longdendale
Valley and its Neighbourhood.


Should you ask me whence these stories?
Whence these Legends and Traditions?
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I should answer, I should tell you,
I repeat them as I heard them
From the lips of Nawadaha,
The musician, the sweet singer.
Should you ask where Nawadaha
Found these songs so wild and wayward,
Found these legends and traditions,
I should answer, I should tell you,
In the bird’s nest of the forest.
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All the wild fowl sang them to him,
In the moorlands and the fenlands,
In the melancholy marshes.
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In the Vale of Tawasentha,
In the green and silent valley.—(Longfellow).

Hyde
Fred Higham, Printer and Bookbinder, “Cheshire Post” Office,
Clarendon Press.
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List of Subscribers.

The Author desires to gratefully acknowledge the kindness andencouragement that he has received from the Ladies and Gentlemen whosenames appear in the following list. It is in great measure owing totheir assistance that the present effort to preserve in book form theLegends and Traditions of Longdendale has been successful.

Andrew, J. D., Esq.,
Longdendale, Oswestry.

Andrew, W. J., Esq., F.S.A.,
Cadster, Whaley Bridge.

Ashton, Mrs. Thomas,
37, Princess Gardens, London, S.W. (4 copies).

Ashton, Thomas Gair, Esq., M.P.,
Of Hyde, and of Vinehall Place, Robertsbridge, Battle, Sussex.

Astley-Cheetham Public Free Library
(Stalybridge)—Thomas Swain, Esq., Librarian.

Aspland, Mrs.,
Werneth Lodge, Gee Cross, Hyde.

Barr, John, Esq.,
Dinting Lodge, Dinting.

Beaumont, Mrs. T. A.,
Lower Market Street, Broadbottom.

Beeley, James, Esq.,
Derbyshire Level, Moorfield, Glossop.

Bennett, Isaac Booth, Esq.,
Godley Green, Hyde.

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