Factoid - Did you know?
Local Legend has it that Parson Darby who was the local curate was also a local highwayman when he wasn't preaching in church. He was hung in 1841 at what is now known as Darby Green.
One account tells of him dressed in his ecclessiastical garb riding slowly up to Monteagle House to visit one of his flock. Once there he changed into his highwayman's clothes, strapped on a couple of pistols and a mask, changed horses for a faster steed, then held up a coach on Hartford Bridge Flats.
He stashed the loot in the cellars of Monteagle house, to be disposed of later, before changing his horse and clothes and riding quietly back through the village.
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