Years of living in Yorkshire left Sabine Baring-Gould with a hoard of material on the county’s strangest children. Here are the self-styled Prophet Wroe, Peter Priestly the Wakefield parish clerk, the convict Snowden Dunhill, the ghost of Trinity Church in York and the tragedy of Beningbrough Hall, each told with relish and local detail.
A rich gallery of English eccentricity from the author of Onward, Christian Soldiers. Download the free EPUB.