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[werewolf]

That's Interesting!

[Red]

I live in Clophill and have done for nearly 2 years now. I have never been to the church and have no desire to. The skatepark in Clophill is much more alluring to me. Clophill is a nice place and I have to drive near the church to get to work. I have never witnessed anything out of the ordinary, but I must also point out that I drive near by. Driving means I can't be looking over there and only near by, not right next to. Maybe I will go up there soon, just to see what all the fuss is about. I am not saying I believe the stories and I am not saying I don't believe them, but it is just strange to have such a major fuss over something I live right next to yet have never actually been to
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Red

[ukhunni]

Hi me and my friends had a weird experience.
We went up to the opening to the lane at clophill at around 9.30pm but then got scared......so we decided to not got up there cause it was pitch black (i dont know how them residents live on that lane).

Anyway we drove on down to the end of the village where we could see the church on the hill by the trees, there was a bit of a distance but we could see it.
After looking at the churh for about 10 mins i said to my friends are my eyes going funny can u see that? What we could see was on top of the church was this black thing just bouncing around - it remined me of a black binbag just bouncing in the wind...but the thing is clophill churh has no cover on top. I just put it down to ppl doing thier rituals and it was black smoke. The only thing was the smoke was not rising.

On either sides of the churn we could see 2 black things which looked like 'sticks dancing' they were just moving....we though they were flags but after a while of looking at this, it could not have been.

We went down the road and came bk to have a break but we came bk again and it had got worse.

There was still these black figures dancing on the sides of the top of the church plus there were 3 white clouds hanging around the church...they were not clouds as they were not moving....it was windy that night.


We didnt think nothing of it untill we rang someone who confirmed it was ghosts...without us even saying anything.

If you go up there any night u will see this......it is bad spirts and I say to anyone who is thinking of going up there....NOT TO GO

[jay wolfendale]

1986. Car full of people. Speeding. Pissed up. Drove there one night. Seemed like a good idea. Much giggling. Ghost jokes. Got there. To say there was a sense of dread about the place would be an understatement. We got out. We stopped. Something was scaring us all shitless. Our laughter had evaporated in an instant. Got back in car. Drove home fast. Very spooked. Very quiet. Have to say have no idea what it was, but would not do it again. x.

[blinkpoker]

did exactly the same thing back in 83 a car full of us went there.i couldn't understand why everyone made such a big fuss about the place..until i went there ..i couldnt wait to get back to the safety of the car and the main road..never been there since...

[Clophill Bob]

I just registered so I could reply to this thread.
I was born and grew up in Clophill, at the bottom of the lane that leads up to the church, I lived there for over 30 years from 1965.
The history of the place is different from the previous posts here.
The village was originally around the church, untill the plague came.
They burned the village to the ground and then moved down the hill to it`s present location.
We used to play in and around the church all the time as kids, even at night.
I have never seen anything remotley ungodly going on there and neither has anyone else who lived in the village. Apart from grave robbers that is.
Sorry to spoil your images of witch craft and devil worshipping, but it didn`t happen.
Oh and Dead mans hill is a good 2 miles from the church, that place did see a few murders though.
James Hanratty (the last man to be hanged in the UK) killed his victim at dead mans Hill.
The pyjama murders in the 70`s. Dead mans hill.
Another body turned up there in the late 70`s aswell.

[blink poker]

I HEARD A RUMOUR THAT THE DEVIL WORSHIPPING INCIDENTS WAS DOWN TO STUDENT ANTICS..THE PLACE STIL SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME THOUGH
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gimme some of that rock'n'roll
the kinda stuff that don't save souls

[scary girl]

I wanna go there!

when is the nxt expedition?
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"if the music is loud enough we won't hear the world falling apart" ["Jubilee" ]

[werewolf]

A surreal visit to Cainho with pics

Much earlier in this topic the ancient nearly forgotten predecessor
to the village of Clophill complete with it's long abandoned castle
and the last vestige of an ancient Norman/English barony was
touched upon.
The ancient abandoned town of Cainho lies about a mile and a half
south east of the centre of Clophill village. Today all that is to be found
left from town is Cainho manor and the ruins of a Motte and bailey castle.

After the battle of Hastings in 1066 William the conqueror did not head
straight for the capitol London to seize his throne. He first had his army bypass
the city to the south until eventually he got to the River Thames. There
he followed it northwest, through the Chiltern hills at Goring Gap.
He then followed the Chilterns northeast until he got to Linslade, nearby,
he split his army into two, sending one southeast through Houghton Regis
and Luton and then London and the Crown. The other army he sent
northeast, Cainho was only a days march in this direction. On arriving
William granted the then significant town of Cainho, to one of his top
generals Geoffrey de Montbray, who went on to manage an empire of
over 300 manors from there.

Later, an ambitious Knight who was said to have been a member of
the Knights Templar, Nigel d’Albini married into the Montbray family
and built the Castle that now lies in ruins. He took over control of the vast
estates and Manor’s and started the line of the Barony of Cainho which
became established as an important power base during the feudal period.

Nigel’s son, Roger d’Aubigny went on to join in the Crusades and was captured
by Saladin who won a ransom and was released. Many of the d’Aubigny’s
became important Knights of the Temple and played a significant part in
developing the Knights Templar power in the south east midlands until they were
finally disbanded in the early 14th century. A little later in that century the plague,
devastated the town of Cainho which sat straddled around the now decaying castle,
the remaining folk relocating to a new location about a mile
to the north (The location of the crumbling Church of St. Marys of
Clophill).

For further information on this subject please visit the excellent Dave Binns article
‘Clophill Echoes’ on the Earthtransition site.

Anyway we decided in our inimitable fashion to send our photocyclist to
the Castle to get some photo’s…….





The sheep seem to be the only inhabitants these days!

It is more than possible that under the Motte lies is a much older sacred mound.

This surreal view outlines the field undulations of the former town
staddling the old castle ramparts.


This ancient form, like something out of Lovecrafts Cthulu exists there


More Cainho Field earth undulations that betray the medievil town


Cainho manor


The Cainho Skull


Like some incredible beast out of the Cthulu Mythos this beast stands
guard on the medievil castle ramparts.


Now it's the sheep's turn to patrol..


Clophill Church a mile to the north, a bit vague but a little right of centre
skyline, from Cainho motte.


The return of the Cainho Skull.


A closer inspection of the Cainho Cthulu


A Cainho Sunset.



An Ariel overview of the area with Cainho castle marked by the 'I' icon
on the bottom southern end and Clophill Church of St. Marys on the
top to the north marked by the 'I' icon.
The village of Clophill runs accross the middle of the image.

For more detailed maps and zoomable views with Google Earth, please
check these links out below.

"NEW"!! Google Maps; Clophill Cainho
and for Google Earth, KML

next....The Priory at Chicksands and the Elephant cage


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