The Dragons of St Leonard’s Forest

In the shadowed heart of Sussex, where St Leonard’s Forest sprawls like a tapestry of secrets, the air hums with tales older than the oaks—tales of saints and serpents, of blood-born lilies and headless specters. From the 6th century, when St Leonard faced a dragon’s wrath, to the 1614 terror of a venomous beast, and the eerie rides of Squire Paulett’s ghost, the forest guards its mysteries fiercely. Step lightly among the Lily Beds, where lilies-of-the-valley whisper of battles won and terrors unforgotten, for here, the past is never truly silent.