Malign Frequencies No.97 - Harlow Hill Field Report No.3: The Black Gate

An old black iron gate marks the boundary - midway up Harlow Hill - between land which was once legally constituted as commons, and the upper part of the hill belonging to Harlow University. It is said that since 1657, when Sir John Hargreaves wrested the crown of the Hill from the local people of the parish of Harlow, a black gate has always stood here: erected by the Folk of the Black Bowers To delineate the cursed statement of intent: that the upper part of the Hill should henceforth be subject to the maleficarum of both those Folk and of the Horsingdon Coven - as would any of those who would cross the black gate’s threshold.