Inspired by the 1449 battle near the River Stour between the Essex Dragon and the Suffolk Dragon. Essex triumphed!
Legendary Essex note:
The following account says:
In a small leather-bound book in the Library of the Dean and Chapter at Canterbury, the story is recounted as follows: “Memorandum that on Friday the 26th of September in the year of our Lord 1449, about the hour of Vespers, two terrible dragons were seen fighting for about the space of one hour, on two hills, of which one, in Suffolk, is called Kydyndon Hyl and the other in Essex Blacdon Hyl. One was black in colour and the other reddish and spotted. After a long conflict the reddish one obtained the victory over the black, which done, both returned into the hills above whence they had come, that is to say, each to his own place to the admiration of many beholding them”.
The battlefield became known as Sharpfight Meadow.
