Norfolk
Coast roads, churchyards, halls, heathland and the lanes behind the sea villages.
5 present records
Place index
Places in the record
Each record is kept with its county, parish, road and landscape. Locations remain approximate where the surviving account gives no closer detail.
Suffolk
Storm churches, river country, pine woods and the long marsh paths beside the sea.
5 present records, one shared with EssexCambridgeshire
Fen roads and black soil mark the western edge of the Black Shuck tradition recorded here.
2 present recordsEssex
Essex marks the southern edge of the Black Shuck tradition recorded here.
3 present records, one shared with SuffolkLater associations
Places linked by later tradition
These associations are included for context, but are kept separate from recorded encounters.
Holme and Hunstanton
Peddars Way reaches the sea at Holme-next-the-Sea, close by Hunstanton, and has a sustained association with Black Shuck. Enid Porter's later survey also gives Hunstanton as the western limit of a broad Shuck coastline. This admits the country to the archive without pretending that a named person met him in Hunstanton on a known night.
Follow the western roadBeeston Bump
Amelia Opie's 1829 journal places the beginning of Old Shock's walk at the church of a village between Cromer and Sheringham, almost certainly Beeston Regis. Later writing gives Beeston Bump as the creature's lair. The first claim supports a church-to-church route. It does not establish the Bump as a lair.
Read the Old Shock recordCromer Hall
Cromer Hall is often joined to Black Shuck through the claim that the place and local black-dog tradition helped shape The Hound of the Baskervilles. The connection is plausible and much repeated, but no statement by Arthur Conan Doyle has yet been found to prove it. This is a history of influence, not a Shuck encounter at the Hall.
Read the cautious source note ↗Across county boundaries
Norfolk and Suffolk at the centre
Neighbouring areas are included where a source or local tradition carries the record across the boundary. Other British black-dog traditions remain separate.
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