Boggart Hole Clough is a nook, a small valley within the Manchester connurbation that has miraculously remained without housing development or industry. Its name should immediately excite those interested in fairylore as the boggart is a northern solitary fairy: note that there have been several boggart posts on strangehistory including boggart catching, a misplaced Calderdale boggart, the boggart of Shatton and Thornber and the boggarts our earliest extensive text on Lancashire boggart-lore.
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