The other day I was in the Local Studies library in Stockport when I came across 5 volumes of the Stockport Advertiser Notes and Queries dating from 1881-1882. There were a number of what would now be called classic Forteana including such gems as the following:
DRAGON`S LAKE – There is a lake* in the neighbourhood of Moston Green, near Warmingham, called Dragon`s Lake. Can anyone inform me as to the meaning of its name? Middlewich L.P
This word is actually spelt `lane` which is either a misprint or it really was a lane, which is still interesting.
A HORNED WOMAN – In Dr. Leighs Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak of Derbyshire (1700), I believe there is a portrait and descriptive account of one Mary Davies taken in 1688, at the age of 72. This woman is said to have had two full-grown horns upon her head, and to have cast them; that others grew and were cast and so on in regular succession for four or five years. The first formation is said to have commenced when the woman was 23 (?) years old. Would any reader of your Notes and Queries, having access to the above work, kindly supply further particulars of this natural curiosity or state where a copy may be seen. E.ABBOTT.
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