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Can she save herself from a witch’s fate?
The Wheelwright’s Daughter
What you need to know before your trail
Martha is a feisty and articulate young woman, the daughter of a wheelwright, living in a Herefordshire village in Elizabethan England. With no mother Martha’s life is spent running her father’s meagre household and helping out at the local school whilst longing to escape the confines and small-mindedness of a community driven by religious bigotry and poverty.
As she is able to read and is well-versed in herbal remedies she is suspected of being a witch. When a landslip occurs – opening up a huge chasm in the centre of the village – she is blamed for it and pursued remorselessly by the villagers.
Travel Guide
England’s Witchery hamlet
Kynaston
Kynaston is an English hamlet in the parish of Kinnerley, Shropshire. It was described in 1870 as “KYNASTONE, a township in Kinnerley parish, Salop; 7½ miles SE of Oswestry. Pop., 135.” The name is thought to be derived from the conflation of the name Cynfyn and the Anglo Saxon term “aston”, meaning east town.
The setting of this novel is a mix of Kynaston, Cockshoot Wood and Woolhope. Of course, it’s a fictional story set many years ago so the settlements and witches houses are no longer there. The legends and the mystery remains however. You can visit them all via this book.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Wheelwright’s Daughter
Destination/location: Herefordshire Author/guide: Eleanor Porter Departure Time:1570s
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