The Church Moved by Witches

Coming into Wendover: notice how far the church sits from town. Legend says witches carried its stones there by night.

Wendover's parish church stands nearly half a mile from the town centre, beside the manor house. An old tradition explains why. Building began in a field close to the town, but each night the stones and timber that had been gathered were carried away by witches or fairies and found the next morning on the present site, until the builders gave up and built where the materials had been taken. The field first chosen was remembered as Witches Meadow, and historians have noted an early fourteenth-century field name in the parish, Wychewelle Croft, which may lie behind the story.