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Devils lane - pat weedon (20th Aug 2009 - 21:47:51) I am not a resident of Liphook, but am curious as to how Devils Lane got its name - was it something spooky?- and also, do I recall that fairly recently a well in the grounds of an old house there was inspected and the bones of a lady who disappeared some hundred years back were thought to have been located?

Re: Devils lane - Rhys G (22nd Aug 2009 - 14:01:18) I was always under the impression that a large tree, which has subsequently been chopped down but the stump is still visible when the vegetation is cut down, was used for hangings many moons ago. If traveling up from Haslemere Road entrance, over the railway bridge and then a bit further on it can be found on the slope on the right hand side. Don't know whether this claim is true, myth or otherwise! Also can't recall hearing anything of the bones in a well. Perhaps the Bramshott & Liphook Preservation Society may have somehting interesting in one of their publications?

Re: Devils lane - helen (22nd Aug 2009 - 16:14:50) wasnt the story of bones from a lady found in a well in liss or is that another story.

Re: Devils lane - Owen (22nd Aug 2009 - 19:17:42) I suppose every town must have a story like that. My grandfather once told me a story from North Wales where a skeleton was found after lightning split a tree open - the person (who was said to have disappeared on the day of her wedding) appeared to have slipped and drowned inside the hollow, waterlogged tree about a hundred and fifty years ago. Slightly off topic, apologies

Re: Devils lane - JimBob (30th Aug 2009 - 17:16:15) The body in the well at Liss was reported in the Guardian: www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/...

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