mepal

Updated: May 24, 2025

I can slay myself," said she, as she took the Ost-Dane's hard, honest hand. And Hereward went, seemingly by Mepal or Sutton. Then came the message; and all men in Ely knew it. Torfrida stormed down to the monks, in honest indignation, to demand that they should send to William, and purge her of the calumny. They were all gabbling inside, like starlings on a foggy morning, and would not let her in.

Charles Kingsley - Hereward, the Last of the English

I often walk along the grassy flood-bank for a mile or two, to the tiny decayed village of Mepal, with a little ancient church, where an old courtier lies, an Englishman, but with property near Lisbon, who was a gentleman-in-waiting to James II. in his French exile, retired invalided, and spent the rest of his days "between Portugal and Byall Fen" an odd pair of localities to be so conjoined!

Arthur Christopher Benson - At Large