The Wild Woman of the Slade (Saffron Walden)
The Wild Woman of The Slade haunts the spooky swamp at the side of the common. The legend says that she used to live nearby and complained so much about the noise that one day she leaned out of her window too far screaming wildly at the uncouth youths, that she tumbled into the Slade below and broke her neck. On full moons and in the witching hours between midnight and 1am she will often be seen, hair flailing, nails and teeth flashing, forevermore stuck to complain for eternity into the empty, lonely darkness.
The moral of this story – wear earplugs and be nice.
- The Slade is a river/ stream that runs along the bottom edge of the common in Saffron Walden and then weaves down Thaxted road, it has high banks, and some tunnels.
