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Evidence dating back some 3,500 to 4,000 years, claims to be the longest continuously inhabited village in England.
The village’s monolith, a site of worship for the ancient Beaker people, was said to have been a demonic thunderbolt hurled by the Devil himself at the nearby church.
All Saint’s Church in Rudston
Inhabitants would dance round the monolith wearing headwear forged from animal skulls.
“In its day, with everyone living in single-storey dwellings, it would have been like seeing the London Eye,” Mr Christian told the Hull Daily Mail.
“It was a focal point in the way Stonehenge was, it was such an important ritual site.”
Water of woe
The Ancient Britons were also intrigued by the Gypsey Race, a watercourse that flows through the centre of the Wold Newton Triangle into the sea at Bridlington.
“Because it runs through chalk, and it rises with heavy rain, one day there would be an empty bank, and the next day a torrent,” Charles said.
“As the Ancient Britons didn’t know much about geology, they thought of it as a mystical phenomenon – the Waters of Woe.
The Gypsey Race chalk stream and East Gate bridge at Rudston (Image: Dr Patty McAplin)
“It is an element of people being wise with hindsight, but it was said the waters would run the year before a major disaster.
“It flowed before the start of the English Civil War, before King Charles I lost his head, before the Great Fire of London and the First and Second World Wars.
“Of course, it could be coincidence, but it is more fun to think there is a connection.”
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Charles hasn’t been the only author fascinated with these tales.
Among them was the Bridlington-born William Parvus, later William of Newburgh, a monk who wrote the History of English Affairs.
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