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Location: Between Middleton (ESSEX) and Boxford (SUFFOLK)
Legend: "A black specimen [of phantom dog] is said to cross the county boundary when travelling between the villages of Middleton in Essex, and Boxford, in West Suffolk."
Source: A. A. MacGregor: 'The Ghost Book' (Robert Hale, 1955), p. 71-2.
Place Names: Middleton - OE 'Middle-homestead/village'
Boxford - OE 'ford where box grew'
Other: The dog presumably crosses the county boundary via the bridge over the river Stour at Sudbury.

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