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A small village in the southwest of Bedfordshire, and its name is derived from the Saxon ‘Seathford’ meaning Willowford.
The church of St Mary dates from 1200 and has leaded windows and floor brasses to John Peddar, his wife and family in the south aisle.
The Swan pub stands on the site of an earlier thatched building burnt to the ground nearly one hundred years ago. Legend has it that ground in front of the pub now occupied by a weeping ash tree was once the public hanging place.
This village boasts two ghostly tales. The first is Britten’s Lane, formerly Ford Lane, is haunted by The Ford Lane Dog, a beast with eight legs and two heads. The second is Broughton Road has the Broughton Calf wandering up and down at midnight crying for its mother.
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- Landmark