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Apart from a bend in the road, that is, according to ‘Yorkshire Legends and Traditions’ by Rev Thomas Parkinson (1888) no longer present, there could be another physical link to the story. | Apart from a bend in the road, that is, according to ‘Yorkshire Legends and Traditions’ by Rev Thomas Parkinson (1888) no longer present, there could be another physical link to the story. | ||
An effigy is in All Saints Church, Slingsby of a knight, (probably that of 14th century Sir Willaim Wyvill) and his dog, which was also described by Dodsworth 'There is in the choir a monument cross-legged of one of the Wyvills, at his feet a talbot coursing.’ | An effigy is in All Saints Church, Slingsby of a knight, (probably that of 14th century Sir Willaim Wyvill) and his dog, which was also described by Dodsworth: 'There is in the choir a monument cross-legged of one of the Wyvills, at his feet a talbot coursing.’ | ||
This has been thought to the grave of the dragon slayer and his faithful hound. | This has been thought to the grave of the dragon slayer and his faithful hound. | ||
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