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Description: | Showing West Lane leading right to Knobby Ends Lane which joins Barlow Lane. This was the burial route to the church in Ryton before 1828 when Winlaton first had its own church and graveyard.The road to the left leads to Garesfield Lane and Normans Riding. Where Knobby Ends Lane joins Barlow Lane ( further right and out of this picture) a track can be seen leading on to Blaydon Burn, this point was once a crossroads on the burial route and is the site of an interesting tale. In 1660 an unknown gentleman came to live in Winlaton.After Charles II was proclaimed King the passing of the Act of Indemnity,pardoned all those except the murderers of Charles I. The man whom locals called Selby went to a nearby wood (believed to be Lands Wood) and hanged himself. The Winlaton people buried him at the crossroads at midnight, this was the traditional site of burial for a suicide, as suicide was illegal and a suicide could not be buried in consecrated ground.A stake was driven through his heart to ensure his ghost did not walk and for more than 200 years everyone passing the crossroads threw three stones on a cairn which marked the burial spot. No one named Selby is on the list of regicides so this man’s true identity will probably never be known, the cairn has now vanished but the legend of the Winlaton vampire lives on! | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.asaplive.com/Lco/Lco.cfm?ccs=629&cs=2674&Preview=1 | Publisher: | Gateshead Council | Rights holder: | Gateshead Council | Subjects: | Roads | Source: | iSee Gateshead | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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