In the towns and villages around the Forest of Lein in Ruddlestone, there are a number of legends concerning the Great Boar of Lein, a huge and terrible Wild Boar. The name of The Bristling Boar inn in Wendeford refers to just such a legend in this part of Ruddlestone. It is said in Wendeford that "years ago the surrounding hamlets and farmsteads were terrorized by a monstrous wild boar which lived within the borders of the Forest of Lein. Eventually it was tracked down by Felder the Hunter and his pack of legendary hounds, was trapped in a staked pit and slain." It may well be this episode which is celebrated in a tapestry in the nearby Cleeve Manor: the tapestry, which "covers half of one wall and shows a man with a pack of hounds fighting a huge wild boar", "depicts part of the legend o
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