Esox lucius Traditional Cache
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Burgh St Peter can be found six miles north-east of Beccles and is surrounded to the south and east by the River Waveney and marshland.
Its Church of St Mary mainly dates from around 1200. There are church registers dating back to 1538 and a list of rectors that dates back as far as 1301.
It has a brick tower built in 5 stages, each smaller than the one below it. A local tale asserts that the tower can fold up like a telescope, shutting down at the end of the yachting season, and opening up again at the start.
Legend says a poor man made a deal with the Devil for money, and spent some of his wealth on building the church. Years later the Devil came back for payment on his loan, with the man's signature on a parchment, but too late, for the man had died just hours before and been buried in the new graveyard, out of the Devil's reach. It's said that on the anniversary of the man's death, a skeleton haunts the churchyard, trying to reclaim his soul.
Once an agricultural village, today Burgh St Peter has much less labour intensive work to be done. This means that many residents now leave the village each day to work in nearby towns.
The River Waveney is a considerable river, It runs for a course of about fifty miles, between the two counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, as a boundary to both;
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