Holbeck Little Folk, and a Scruffy Hairy 'Hermit' that lived on our Land
When I was a boy myself and my Brother used to live on a country estate called Holbeck Manor, it was an extremely old manor house steeped in history and very close to a Viking burial ground in Lincolnshire. To get to the Manor you would have to go down along driveway which is about a mile and a half long. Half way down this driveway there is a stone bridge with a stream on one side and a lake and boat house on the other. Most of the drive had wooded areas running along it, then the lake and to the back there were woods. Our first encounter occurred at this bridge on a snowy Winters morning. Myself and my Brother were given a wooden sledge to play with as there was snow on the ground, so we took it up to just above the bridge as there was a nice drop from there back down to the bridge, which was perfect for sledding. My Brother sat on the sledge and I pushed him, once we had gotten some speed up I let go and off my Brother went down the driveway towards the bridge, as he got to th...