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Tom Hickathrift's Grave

Tilney All Saints, Norfolk

The fenland giant who beat a monster with a cartwheel.

Tom Hickathrift was a giant of the Fens, so strong he could carry a cartload of beer on his back. When a fearsome giant terrorised the Marshland, Tom fought him using a cartwheel for a shield and an axle for a club, and won.

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When
Legend
Where
52.7380, 0.3250
Group
Hill figures & giants

Visiting

The stone lies in the churchyard of All Saints, open most days.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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