Beachy Head

Beachy Head

I used to live in Eastbourne, and so know it well,

at least as well as anyone can,

 a place which keeps seeming to change

every time you go there.

 

It has a site on the fringes of a very haunted landscape.

Also some stunning bits of coast, Exceat, Seven Sisters, 

and Beachy Head.

 

I knew someone, who jumped off Beachy Head, and survived. 

You would expect it to be haunted.

I believe a grey lady ghost is seen there, going over the edge,

but given that people do jump from there

can that be guaranteed not to have been a real suicide?

There's also alleged to be a farmer's wife, who walks along the top

with a baby in her arms, and then jumps.

I also believe thst a monk is seen there, trying 

to persuade passers by to jump!

 As i understand the story a monk was shackled and thrown off,

at the time of Henry VIII'th's dissolution of the monasteries.

So he stands at the bottom and summons people to join him.

There was a pub up there, when i lived there, 

which makes you wonder, if a good meal and a drink might 

help make people think that life was worth living after all?

These days i expect it might take more than one square meal.