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19th century Stone in situ at Entrance of churchyard, St. Mary the Virgin Church

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Published on Thursday, September 4.

Updated on Friday, September 12.

Mentioned in local stories for over 150 years there are many versions of the Devil's Stone legend, but all tell the same basic story. Tradition says the devil was fed up being woken up every Sunday morning by the bells ringing so he took the bells but fell coming down the tower and left his footprint in the stone. As he fell the bells rolled into the Libbet Stream. The stone stood for several hundreds of years on the eastern bend of Church Lane/Iwade Road before being moved across the lane to the corner of Church Lane/School Lane in 1931. It was moved to the entrance of the churchyard in 1935 and, more recently, to a corner of the church car park. A plaque marks the 1936 move.