Old Hurst
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 St Peter's Parish Church |
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  Old Hurst |
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| OS grid reference | TL3077 |
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| Shire county | Cambridgeshire |
| Region | East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Cambridgeshire |
| Fire | Cambridgeshire |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| EU Parliament | East of England |
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Coordinates: 52°22′N 0°05′W / 52.37°N 00.09°W
Old Hurst is a village in Huntingdonshire distirct, Cambridgeshire, England.
The small Parish Church of St Peter's dates from the 13th century and is a Grade II* listed building. [1]
At one time, at the most prominent point along the road between Old Hurst and St Ives, there could be found a low chair-shaped hunk of stone called the Hursting Stone, or the Abbot's Chair. This glacial relic served many functions throughout the centuries, having been sculpted into a curious chair-shaped mass: folklore has it that it in the Middle Ages it formed the base of a plinth that held an almighty stone cross upright. Here, sentences were passed in open-air trials. Later it earned the name 'Abbot's Chair' from the belief that monks would sit in it and rest while travelling. This antiquity now rests against a wall just outside the Norris Museum, St Ives, and according to writer Daniel Codd there is a general belief that it is haunted. There is also a belief that if the stone should ever sink beneath the earth then the streets of Bluntisham will run red with blood.[2]
References
- ↑ "Name: CHURCH OF ST PETER List entry Number: 1163560". Histic England. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
- ↑ Codd, Daniel (2010). Mysterious Cambridgeshire, Derby Books Publishing. p.75-76. ISBN 9781859838082
External links
Media related to Old Hurst at Wikimedia Commons
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