What is the Godshill Legend?

There have been a number of variations on the Godshill Legend. However, they all revolve around the same set of happenings over the space of a few days back in the seventh century when the largely Saxon inhabitants of the Isle of Wight were converted to the Christian faith.

Attempts to build a place of worship in a field in the village were thwarted on a number of occasions when, overnight, the stones being used to build the church ‘moved themselves’ to a different site on top of the hill.

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