TRAVEL VLOGGER VISITS BAKEWELL TO EXPERIENCE OUR WITCHES STORIES!
Introducing The Nott’m Lass
We are delighted to announce a new partner who will be sharing their experience of GeoStories from Bakewell. The Nott’m Lass!
The Nott’m Lass will be sharing her experience of the Chronicles of the Bakewell Witches from her incredibly popular channels including TikTok.
We are an admirer of what she is about - celebrating the great outdoors and encouraging as many people as possible to enjoy what can be found in beautiful and intriguing places. She encourages and inspires people, especially those who don’t view themselves as walkers or lovers of the great outdoors.
Nott’m Lass first established a demand for her vlogging talent over the Covid Lockdown period and she understood and recognised many people were unable to access places.
Today Nott’m Lass continues to share a virtual experience of inspiring new locations with posts enjoyed by over 27,500 people.
We’re really looking forward to sharing her experiences of GeoStories which will hopefully inspire her followers to explore our content the locations we have featured so far including Whitby, York, Eyam and Bakewell or from where they are at home!
“My recent discovery of the GeoStories App has been a real game changer, with audio drama that you listen to whilst walking around a location. With a brilliant cast of actors, I’ve been enjoying listening to stories in various places and experiencing augmented reality. For example, “The Chronicles of the Bakewell Witches” was a real eye opener based on the tragic events that happened in Bakewell 400 years ago.”
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Watch an extract from Chronicles of the Bakewell Witches here
Chronicles of the Bakewell Witches Youtube Sting
Witchcraft? In Bakewell?
That’s what they wanted you to believe…..
One of our most popular GeoStories is the story based upon accusations of witchcraft against two women living in Bakewell in 1606.
Chronicles of the Bakewell Witches is a story of lies, betrayal and misdirection, reflecting the truth behind the fate of two local women who had the misfortune to come across someone who would rather see them hang than admit his own crimes.
Decades before the most intense witch hunts, the women were accused of witchcraft following events that nowadays would seem ridiculous if it all hadn’t ended so tragically.
So here’s what history tells us about how two innocent women were sentenced to death…
Mrs Stafford was a widow who lived in Bakewell and took in lodgers. She shared her home with another woman, most likely a relative. In 1606, a man travelling from Scotland had been staying at Mrs Stafford’s for a few days when he claimed he was whisked away from Bakewell in the dead of night in his nightclothes by two witches who flew him to London.
Found hiding in a London cellar still in his nightclothes and under suspicion for burglary, he told his story saying the proof would be found with the clothes he’d had to leave behind in Bakewell at Mrs Stafford’s house. His clothes were found, and Mrs Stafford and her companion were quickly accused of witchcraft and taken to gaol in Derby. Within weeks they had been tried and executed.
Many believe the truth is that the lodger was actually evicted by Mrs Stafford in the middle of the night after returning home drunk and refusing to pay his rent. Five days after being ejected he was found in a cellar in London, in his nightshirt. At that time it took five days to walk from Bakewell to London….
This tragic miscarriage of justice is just one of the many examples of how women were treated with suspicion, during the 17th and 18th centuries when hundreds of women were persecuted as witches.
Bonus Episode ….
As well as Chronicles of Bakewell Witches, the free GeoStories App features a bonus episode ‘The Persuasion of Joseph Walker’ it takes the viewpoint of Joseph who was to marry one of the accused women.
And there’s more coming soon!
We’d highly recommend the recent Channel 4 documentary, ‘Suranne Jones: Investigating Witch Trials’ which explores the many instances where women’s voices were unheard in a climate where breaches of convention or unexplained misfortune could quickly lead to an accusation of witchcraft and often death.
Here’s a link to the documentary : Suranne Jones: Investigating Witch Trials.
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