Ashmore, Dorset, England

Washer's Pit Coppice

Washer's Pit

Washer's Pit is located at an entrance to Ashmore Wood, and at one time there was a barrow here. A cross cut into the turf here was always scoured, and is believed to have held some significance, according to the author Coxe. The locale was also the haunt of Gabbygamies – ghostly creatures whose strange gibbering's once filled the air.

 

For further information, please read Haunted Britain by Antony D. Hippisley Coxe and The Good Ghost Guide by John Brooks.

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Ashmore is a village in Dorset, England.

It is situated 20 miles southwest of Salisbury.

Pictured left is Washers Pit Coppice courtesy of Maigheach-gheal. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.