LEGEND LAND [Illustration: Antlered man on horseback silhouetted against the moon.] Being a further collection of some of the Old Tales told in those nearer Western Parts of Britain served by the Great Western Railway Volume Four Price Sixpence [Illustration: Map of central England and Wales showing the routes of the Great Western Railway and highlighting some of the locations in this book: Malvern Hills (page 8), Cadbury Castle (page 16), Wayland Smith’s Cave (page 32), Rollright Stones (page 4), Fingest (page 28) and Bath (Page 12).] LEGEND LAND Being a further collection of some of the _OLD TALES_ told in those nearer Western Parts of Britain served by the _GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY_, now retold by _LYONESSE_ [Illustration: The shield of the Great Western Railway] VOLUME FOUR _Published in 1923 by_ THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY [FELIX J. C. POLE, GENERAL MANAGER] PADDINGTON STATION, LONDON CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS Contents and Illustrations _Page_ 2 Foreword 3 The Whispering Knights 4 The Shadow Curse of the Raggedstone 8 How Bath was Discovered 12 King Arthur’s Camelot 16 The Witch of Wookey 20 Guy of Guy’s Cliff 24 The Ghostly Bishop of Fingest 28 Wayland Smith and His Cave 32 Herne the Hunter 36 The Ghost of Bisham Abbey 40 The Evil Wedding of Stanton Drew 44 The Story of Wild Darrell 48 Sumer is icumen in (_Supplement_) 52 [Illustration: ** Decorative divider **] This is a reprint in book form of the fourth series of _The Line to Legend Land_ leaflets, together with a Supplement, “Sumer is icumen in,” the oldest English song. The Map at the beginning forms a guide to the localities of the first six legends, that at the back to the remainder. [Illustration: ** Decorative divider **] _Printed by_ KELLY & KELLY, _Moor Lane, London, E.C.2_ FOREWORD Volume Four brings Legend Land nearer to the great centres of modern life. It comprises some of the old stories told of districts within easy reach of such busy cities as London, Birmingham and Bristol. In it you will find historic and pre-historic romance mingled. Some of its tales are as old as any in our land, tales born of the very ancient belief that saw in “Druid” stones a human origin. Other stories are romances of much later date, of events almost within the memory of our great-grandparents’ great-grandparents.