Bladys of the Stewponey
Author: first_name: Sabine
last_name: Baring-Gould
Language: English
Year: 1897

The setting, geography and history of this story by Rev'd Sabine Baring-Gould, author of <i>Onward Christian Soldiers</i> and a number of other well-known hymns, are all accurate, or at least as accurate as local lore will allow. Kinver has long been a midlands beauty spot, and the UK National Trust own and open one of the rock-dwellings mentioned. The 'Stewponey' too was an inn until a year or two into the twenty-first century: <a href="http://www.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/News/Reminder-of-the-he