The Devil’s Signpost stands at the corner of The Devil’s Stamping Ground: a great sloping patch of land which runs through the woods on the crown of Burn Hill all the way to its base. This strip of land - bare of vegetation now, except for the the tough grass which carpets it - was the prodct of the events of the May Eve of 1876 when (or so it is claimed) something was called forth atop the Hill to be loosed upon the unsuspecting local populace, its vast, invisble bulk cutting a devestating swathe through the then-dense forest
There is no one left alive from that time to verify these wild tales and, unsurprisingly, Horsingdon’s newspaper archives remain silent as far as such rumours are concerned, preferring instead to explain the events of that May Eve as the result of an especially violent thunderstorm.
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