lonnen

The remains of the caravan were still there, some little way above the gap where I had entered the lonnen on my way from the station.

Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

Even by day, when no gipsies camped there, the lonnen had been a scary place.

Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

Even by day, when no gipsies camped there, the lonnen had been a scary place.

Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

They used to camp in the lonnen not far from the house, but for years before I left they'd never been there.

Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

The remains of the caravan were still there, some little way above the gap where I had entered the lonnen on my way from the station.

Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

Well, you can forget all that about your mum running up the lonnen.

Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

The other route was by the lonnen, which reached the main road a good quarter of a mile beyond the cemetery wall.

Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

The boys, when we girls were watching, would dare one another to run up the lonnen and touch the shafts or the steps of the van, but only the hardiest spirits ever did this.

Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

As for her "seeing" of the young Lilias running up the lonnen with a bag in either hand, that was a story known by this time to everyone in the village, and she had admitted it to be merely a dream, but I was well aware that she had not been called a witch for nothing.

Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

But, perhaps illogically, the very fact that her vision of the young Lilias's flight into the lonnen was apparently so accurate, bade one believe that her tale of the couple in the cemetery might be true, even if her interpretation of it was not.

Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997