Rather interesting Wakefield facts
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Did you know that while a curate at Horbury Bridge near Wakefield Sabine Baring-Gould wrote the words to Onward Christian soldiers, while simultaneously compiling the first serious work in English on werewolves? Both the hymn and The Book of Were-Wolves were finished in 1865. He explored lycanthropy as folklore and psychological phenomenon – but obviously enjoyed the gore too.
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Barbara Hepworth
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Cyril Knowles
David Mercer
David Storey
Geoffrey Boycott
George Gissing
John Radcliffe
Kenneth Leighton
Martin Frobisher
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