ABSTRACT
A musician once announced his intention of exploring the tunnel to see how far it did indeed go. Bravely playing on his fiddle he set off, his music sounding loud and clear. South-east of Cambridge rise the 240-feet-high Gog Magog Hills with the great Iron Age fort of Wandlebury on their summit. On the inner ring of the fort stood until recently the seventeenth-century mansion once the seat of Lord Godolphin and later of the Dukes of Leeds. Tom Hickathrift is the legendary giant of the Wisbech area of Cambridgeshire, although his traditions and legends extend over the county border into Norfolk. Many of the stories told about him and about his famous deeds must originally have been spread by oral transmission, but at the end of the eighteenth century he entered the realm of the chapbook and, in the nineteenth, of juvenile literature.
