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The Grundles of Suffolk

The Grundles of Suffolk

On the edge of Stanton lurks a deep and mysterious half-mile long trackway

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Jun 29, 2024
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Lying at the edge of Stanton lurks a deep and mysterious half-mile long trackway, linked in language to the Anglo-Saxon lairs of monsters, demons and man-eating beasts.

Suffolk is riddled with geological and man-made depressions in the form of moats and grundles or grindles. Grundles – the name is unique to East Anglia – are very deep hollow ways with steep banks rising to 5.5m in places.

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