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From the archive · 2020-11

People, places and stories from our village’s past.

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The strange tail of the Chalvey Stabmonk
WW-1

The strange tail of the Chalvey Stabmonk

Few people today will have heard of the bizarre ‘Stabmonk’ ceremony that took place annually on Whit Monday in Chalvey where a plaster-cast effigy of a monkey was given a mock funeral and…