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D.T.Langdale

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D.T. Langdale is a professional copywriter and budding author. He has a passion for dark, surreal F&SF and has recently had flash fiction published in the Museum of Walking's Winter Chill anthology and Phantasmagoria. When not writing, he's often found walking the Yorkshire countryside with his fiancé, listening out for lapwings. Find out more about D.T. Langdale on Twitter (@dtlangdale).
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corpse road

Also known as corpse way, coffin route, coffin road, coffin path, churchway path, bier road, burial road, lyke-way or lych-way. “Now is the time of night, That the graves all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide” – Puck in Midsummer Night’s Dream. A path used in medieval times to take the dead from a remote parish to the ‘mother’ church for burial. Coffin rests or wayside crosses lined the route of many where the procession would stop for a while to sing a hymn or say a prayer. There was a strong belief that once a body was taken over a field or fell that route would forever be a public footpath which may explain why so many corpse roads survive today as public footpaths. They are known through the UK.

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