Legends of Longdendale: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Legends of Longdendale, credited to Thomas Middleton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Legends of Longdendale by Thomas Middleton. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. 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

Recording facts

• Recording title: Legends of Longdendale
• Author credits: Thomas Middleton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 5:30:20

Catalogue topics

• folklore
• myth
• Manchester
• cheshire
• longdendale

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 3:35
2. 01 - The Legend of Coombs Rocks — 23:12
3. 02 - The Legend of Alman’s Death: A Tale of Melandra Castle — 22:23
4. 03 - King Arthur’s Adventure — 16:13
5. 04 - The Legend of War Hill — 15:54
6. 05 - Sir Ro, of Staley Hall — 15:09
7. 06 - Robin Hood’s Visit to Longdendale — 13:14
8. 07 - The Abbot of Basingwerke, or the Wehr Wolf of Longdendale — 9:31
9. 08 - The Devil’s Elbow — 11:06
10. 09 - The Legend of Charlesworth Chapel — 7:00
11. 10 - Sir Edmund Shaa — 19:12
12. 11 - Lord Lovel’s Fate — 9:50
13. 12 - The Raiders from the Border-Side — 11:26
14. 13 - The Legend of Gallow’s Clough — 22:22
15. 14 - The King’s Evil: or the Wonderful Cure of the Mottram Parson — 11:07
16. 15 - The Magic Book — 7:29
17. 16 - The Parson’s Wife — 4:52
18. 17 - The Devil and the Doctor — 11:10
19. 18 - The Writing on the Window Pane — 17:20
20. 19 - A Legend of the Civil War — 31:03
21. 20 - A Tale of the ’45 — 14:35
22. 21 - The Haunted Farm — 12:55
23. 22 - The Spectre Hound — 10:50
24. 23 - The Boggart of Godley Green — 8:52

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