# Legends of Longdendale

An audiobook by Thomas Middleton, read by LibriVox volunteers (5 h 30 min, English).

Legend meets lore at Longdendale, the "long wooded valley" of fabled Cheshire. Thomas Middleton - a dramatist, politician, antiquarian, lecturer, writer, Sunday School teacher and local historian - has preserved for us a collection of wild and perhaps improbable folk tales of chieftains, kings, chivalrous knights, foul villains and fearsome beasts all connected over time in the Longdendale tradition. - Summary by Brian Fullen

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## Chapters

0. Preface (3:35): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_00_middleton_64kb.mp3
1. The Legend of Coombs Rocks (23:12): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_01_middleton_64kb.mp3
2. The Legend of Alman’s Death: A Tale of Melandra Castle (22:23): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_02_middleton_64kb.mp3
3. King Arthur’s Adventure (16:13): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_03_middleton_64kb.mp3
4. The Legend of War Hill (15:54): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_04_middleton_64kb.mp3
5. Sir Ro, of Staley Hall (15:09): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_05_middleton_64kb.mp3
6. Robin Hood’s Visit to Longdendale (13:14): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_06_middleton_64kb.mp3
7. The Abbot of Basingwerke, or the Wehr Wolf of Longdendale (9:31): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_07_middleton_64kb.mp3
8. The Devil’s Elbow (11:06): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_08_middleton_64kb.mp3
9. The Legend of Charlesworth Chapel (7:00): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_09_middleton_64kb.mp3
10. Sir Edmund Shaa (19:12): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_10_middleton_64kb.mp3
11. Lord Lovel’s Fate (9:50): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_11_middleton_64kb.mp3
12. The Raiders from the Border-Side (11:26): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_12_middleton_64kb.mp3
13. The Legend of Gallow’s Clough (22:22): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_13_middleton_64kb.mp3
14. The King’s Evil: or the Wonderful Cure of the Mottram Parson (11:07): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_14_middleton_64kb.mp3
15. The Magic Book (7:29): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_15_middleton_64kb.mp3
16. The Parson’s Wife (4:52): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_16_middleton_64kb.mp3
17. The Devil and the Doctor (11:10): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_17_middleton_64kb.mp3
18. The Writing on the Window Pane (17:20): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_18_middleton_64kb.mp3
19. A Legend of the Civil War (31:03): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_19_middleton_64kb.mp3
20. A Tale of the ’45 (14:35): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_20_middleton_64kb.mp3
21. The Haunted Farm (12:55): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_21_middleton_64kb.mp3
22. The Spectre Hound (10:50): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_22_middleton_64kb.mp3
23. The Boggart of Godley Green (8:52): https://archive.org/download/legendsoflongdendale_2504_librivox/legendsoflongdendale_23_middleton_64kb.mp3