Slaggyford Village is situated about a mile north of the A.689.
The Pennine Way goes through the village...part of it in fact along the old Roman Road (otherwise known as 'The Maiden Way', on its way northwards from Alston to Geenhead...a favourite walk with many of Cumbria's visitors.
Knarsdale Hall is situated about a mile or so south of the village. It's a 17th century farmhouse with stone slab roof and mullioned windows, which appears to have been built on the mound of an earlier Norman castle. It still shows the remains of a moat around it. These days a more recent farmhouse adjoins the old building.
There is a ghost story connected with this old hall which concerns a laird whose young wife fell in love with her husband's nephew. The young man's sister learned of the affair, and the guilty pair, fearful that she would betray them, seized her one stormy night, and plunged here into the moat. The old man, upon being awakened by the howling of the dogs, saw his niece standing by the kitchen door wringing water from her hair, but at the sound of his voice the apparition disappeared. The young apparition disappeared, and was seen no more, and the young wife died of brain fever after revealing the guilty secret . Her ghost is said to haunt the hall until this day.
Just a half mile away from the Hall is the church of St Jude, which though built in 1838 does in fact stand on the site of a much older church. In fact there are a few Saxon memorial stones let into the walls of the present building.
The only pub in the village now is the Kirkstyle Inn.
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