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Description: | This cave near Farnham was purportedly the home of Mother Ludlam (or Ludlene), a solitary 17th-century woman commonly known as the White Witch of Waverley. William Cobbet wrote of the cave in 1825: "Alas it is no longer the enchanting place that I knew it. The semi-circular palings are gone, the iron cups, fastened by chains for people to drink out of, are gone; the pavement all broken to pieces; the seats for people to sit on, on both sides of the cave, torn up and gone; the stream that ran down through a clean paved channel, now making a dirty gutter; and the ground opposite, which was a grove chiefly of laurels, intersected by closely mown grass walks, now become a poor ragged-looking alder coppice." | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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