Long Compton, St Peter and St Paul's Church

Long Compton, St Peter and St Paul's Church, a photo by ttwff on Flickr.

Long Compton, St Peter and St Paul's Church. St Augustine is said to have preached on the site of the church, and while he was here, raised a man from the dead.There is a badly worn tomb, with a recumbent effigy of a woman. This effigy is believed to be a witch.
On 15 September, 1875, the normally tranquil Warwickshire village of Long Compton was the scene of a bloody and bizarre street murder which sent shock waves through Victorian Britain.
The victim was 79-year-old Anne Tennant, the wife of an agricultural labourer, and her killing could hardly have been more public or more brazen. As she went to the local baker's shop to buy a loaf of bread for her husband's tea, a man stepped forward, thrust his pitchfork through her throat pinning her to the ground and then carved bloody crucifixes on her face and chest with a bill hook. Horrifying as the murder was, there was something especially terrifying about it for the local country people who understood the ancient superstitions which had gripped this isolated rural spot for more than 4,000 years.
Long Compton recorded in the Domesday Book as Cuntone. The Macmillan Way. long-distance footpath. England.