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The St Leonard's Forest Serpent

St Leonard's Forest, near Horsham, West Sussex

A 1614 pamphlet about a nine-foot serpent in a Sussex wood.

In 1614 a pamphlet reported a 'strange and monstrous serpent' in St Leonard's Forest, nine feet long, leaving a trail of slime and killing men and dogs with its poisonous breath. The forest also has a legend that St Leonard fought a dragon here, and that lilies of the valley grow wherever his blood was spilled.

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When
1614
Where
51.0500, -0.2700
Group
Dragons & monsters

Visiting

Forest walks from Mannings Heath and Colgate.

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