Boggart Hole Clough Brook

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Boggart Hole Clough Brook

Image: © Keith Williamson Taken: 13 Apr 2005

This park, just north of Manchester city centre, contains some dramatic ravines. Local legend associates a boggart with this area. A boggart is a mischievous spirit mainly found in Lancashire and Yorkshire, they were thought to be responsible for poltergeist activity.

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