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Jeppe Knave Grave

The words ‘Jeppe Knave Grave’ on the OS map relate to this circular grass-covered mound about 15 m in diameter with a stone filled depression in the centre measuring 5 x 3 m.

This is thought to be a mutilated Bronze Age burial mound which would have originally contained the body of a local chieftain.

However local legend refers to a man Jeppe outlawed for breaking forest laws during early Norman times.

Whitaker in His History of Whalley (1818) said ‘The name occurs in a record of the boundaries between Wiswell and Pendleton dated 1342, and is there said to be derived from a robber who was beheaded and was buried at that point because the neighbouring vills refused to have him buried within them.’