Sturdy new iron railing has recently been installed around the small Boreham family plot in the cemetery of St. Osmund’s Church on Southcote Lane.
The reasons for the railing’s installation remain unclear, and no explanation has been forthcoming from either Horsingdon Borough Council or the episcopate body which has jurisdiction over the diocese. There certainly haven’t been any reported desecrations in the old burying ground for decades.
However, those intimately acquainted with the witchlore of the region have noted the apotropaic character of the material used in the railing’s construction, and the significance of this with regard to long-standing rumours of the Boreham family’s participation in the Horsingdon and Burn Hill covens. This has lead to speculation that, rather than providing an impediment to ingress to the parts of the churchyard it seemingly protects, the iron railing instead acts as ward against something within the enclosed area which seeks trespass into our world…
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