Blythburgh

The picture for Lily is of a 1950's railway carriage print of Blythburgh church in Suffolk.

A Picture for Lily Peter Ashley 2008

In a sun-filled Blythburgh church, the Huelgas Ensemble sang early polyphony by the little-known Englishman Thomas Ashwell.

Simon Boccanegra; 63rd Aldeburgh festival 2010

Elizabethan worshippers in the great church of Blythburgh -- known as the cathedral of the marshes -- were savaged by a giant, red-eyed demon dog called Black Shuck, whose legend inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write "The Hound of the Baskervilles."

Suffolk Chic 2009

In separate accounts but on the same August day in 1577, the same or similar hounds appeared in the church in Blythburgh, seven miles away, killing another three people there and “blasting” others.

A Winter Haunting Simmons, Dan 2002

I heard of him at Saxmundham, but when I inquired at Blythburgh, I found I had missed him, and I had to hark back to Yoxford before I got on his track again.

The Motor Pirate G. Sidney Paternoster

"Ay, sir, we feed full together," replied Dick grimly; "or so thought some on Blythburgh Marsh a few days gone."

Red Eve Henry Rider Haggard 1890

So it came about that on the morrow Eve and Sir Andrew, accompanied only by a single serving man, fearing no guile since it seemed certain that the Frenchmen were so far away, rode across the moor to Blythburgh.

Red Eve Henry Rider Haggard 1890

"Was it at Blythburgh, in Suffolk, perchance?" asked Hugh.

Red Eve Henry Rider Haggard 1890

You have determined that it was but a dream and now you are wondering how he who is called Gate of the Gods in Cathay could come to Blythburgh.

Red Eve Henry Rider Haggard 1890

I think that many vaults and many churchyards, too, will ere long be filled with dead; also that the tomb of the Claverings at Blythburgh will soon be opened.

Red Eve Henry Rider Haggard 1890