The Lost Giants of Gogmagog

These gentle chalk hills are named for a giant, and for centuries people swore a giant figure was cut into the turf up here.

Around 1605 Bishop Joseph Hall mentioned a giant figure that Cambridge scholars went to see at the Gogmagog Hills, and in 1722 a visiting physician saw a huge man cut into the turf inside the Wandlebury ramparts, which tradition called Gogmagog. It overlooked rowdy student games nicknamed the Gogmagog Olympics. Later, an old man claimed a giant on the slopes had once been visible from Sawston. In 1954 archaeologist T. C. Lethbridge probed the hillside and announced a goddess in a horse-drawn chariot beside a sword-waving warrior, though experts dismissed his figures as natural marks and tree holes.