| SHUCKLAND Introduction Alphabetical List of Locations | |
| Location: | Gorleston, NORFOLK |
| Encounter: | A man was walking at night over a hundred years before [in the 18th century?] on the old turnpike road from Hopton and had just reached the boundary of Gorleston [c.TG52060180] when he saw coming towards him a black dog, laden with chains. The dog then turned round and walked with him, occasionally uttering "a deep low growl." After a while the man told it to go away, whereupon he was seized and thrown over a nearby hedge. He remained half-dazed until the morning, when he found himself in the marshes nearly half a mile further on from the place where he had encountered the dog. |
| Source: | Percy de Lisle: 'Tales & Traditions of Old Yarmouth', in the 'Yarmouth Independent', 7/1/1893. |
| Comments: | The encounter occurred at or near the Gorleston/Hopton parish boundary, which was also the old Norfolk/Suffolk county boundary. |
| Place Name: | Gorleston - 1st element poss. related to OE 'girl', 2nd element OE 'homestead/village' |
| Other: | See also tales of the dog 'Old Scarfe' at Great Yarmouth. |