Grave of the Fylde Witch Meg Shelton, St Annes Church, Woodplumpton

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NST20120326001

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Grave of the Fylde Witch Meg Shelton, St Annes Church, Woodplumpton

Place

Woodplumpton

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The website www.lancastercastle.com refers to the pamphlet 'Other Witch Stories' by Melvyn Dod which tells us that "...... At the graveyard in Woodplumpton by the Ribble is the grave of a woman, Meg Shelton 'The Witch of the Fylde' whose body was found crushed between a barrel and a wall in the early 18th Century. There are many stories of this mischievous individual, the most bizarre being that she kept rising from the grave!"

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