"Lynton Church is situate in the centre of the village. There is a tradition about it very much resembling that of Hollington Church, near St. Leonards. It is said that it was intended to be built opposite Cherrybridge, on the Barnstaple road, but while the workmen brought materials or worked by day, the Pixies - the Devonshire fairies - carried the stones away by night, till the builders grew weary of their fruitless labour and erected it on the spot chosen by the Brownies."
Valentine (Undated)
Map - Lynton Church
Map - Cherrybridge
[Saint Leonard's is not in the Westcountry - the myth appears to be about the devil, rather than pixies!]
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