Shorts Shropshire Folklore of Charlotte Burne: Popular Heroes

In the south aisle of Berrington Church, is a cross-legged effigy, representing
some unknown knight of the late 14th or early 15th century.
It is a figure wooden, rather than stone, and exhibits the unusual costume of a surcoat worn over plate armour.
The local people call him ' Owd Scriven of Brompton.'
Tradition tells of Major Smallman of Wilderhope, in the time of the Civil War, leaped his horse over the precipice, at a spot where it is at the steepest on Wenlock Edge, rather than surrender, to a party of roundhead soldiers by whom he was hotly pursued.
The horse was killed, but he marvellously escaped unhurt.
It is said that he alighted on a crab tree still to be seen growing out of the rock, clambered down, and made his way safely along the foot of the Edge to his old mansion of Wilderhope.
Although some say that he made his way on foot to deliver his despatches to the Royalist garrison in Shrewsbury.
The scene of his adventure is still called the Major's Leap.'
Between Presthope and Lutwyche Hall, the is a story of a more mythical hero, Ippikin'.
Remembered in a rock jutting out from the Edge just above.
Ippkin was a famous robber-knight, who inhabited a cave at the base of this crag, concealed among the trees and brushwood.
On the steepest side of Nesscliff Hill, overlooking the road from Oswestry to Shrewsbury, is a large cave in the face of the rock, approached by a flight of steps, and divided into two rooms by a pillar or half-wall of rock, on which is cut the inscription, H. K. 1564.
It is known as Kynaston's Cave,' the dwelling of Wild Humphrey Kynaston a high-born outlaw of Henry VII's time,.
Three hundred years before Wild Humphrey's, another outlaw lived in the very same part of Shropshire called Fulk FitzWarin.
The son of one and the grandson of another Fulk FitzWarin of Whittington Castle.
In the time of King John he was ejected from his inheritance of Whittington. Becoming a freebooter, robbing the king's merchants, among other things, in the forest of Breidden.
A cliff in Hawkstone Park, called The Bury Walls
Some speculate it to have been the scene of Arthur's Court.
The Red Castle, the supposed home of the Giants, was built in 1232 by Henry de Audley, the founder of the famous family of that name.
The Giants' Well is in one of the towers, which is still standing.
It is ten feet in diameter, and is cut through the solid rock to the depth of at least 105 feet.

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