Three lanterns burn above a door that has been repainted seven times, each colour chosen by a different owner of the house.

Letters were exchanged for years about a roof tile, a chimney, and the correct angle of a weathervane in a strong wind.

A tune played on a borrowed fiddle travelled from the marshes to the hills, and came back with two extra verses.

The innkeeper swears the cellar was dug before the inn, and the mason swears the opposite, and both keep excellent records.

The gardener planted a hedge to hide a wall, then a wall to hide a hedge, and finally sat down to admire the confusion.

Every autumn a lamp is set in the northern window, though nobody living can say who is meant to see it from the road.

Somewhere between the forge and the well, a bench was carved from a fallen tree that once shaded the whole square.

A pair of boots was left on a doorstep with a note, and the note was lost, and the boots became a local landmark.

Letters were exchanged for years about a roof tile, a chimney, and the correct angle of a weathervane in a strong wind.

The road forks twice before the orchard, and travellers who take the left fork twice end up exactly where they started.

The innkeeper swears the cellar was dug before the inn, and the mason swears the opposite, and both keep excellent records.

Beneath the old stone bridge the river keeps a name that no map remembers, and the millers of the valley still argue about it.

Every autumn a lamp is set in the northern window, though nobody living can say who is meant to see it from the road.

Three lanterns burn above a door that has been repainted seven times, each colour chosen by a different owner of the house.

A pair of boots was left on a doorstep with a note, and the note was lost, and the boots became a local landmark.

A tune played on a borrowed fiddle travelled from the marshes to the hills, and came back with two extra verses.

The road forks twice before the orchard, and travellers who take the left fork twice end up exactly where they started.

The gardener planted a hedge to hide a wall, then a wall to hide a hedge, and finally sat down to admire the confusion.