Ogles, Moons and Lover's Leaps

When we were at Bolsover Castle, we noticed several of the coats of arms contained a symbol that looked like a crescent moon.  I have been doing some checking...

 

Three Stags' Heads and a Moon

I knew the three stags' heads is the crest of the Devonshire family (as in Chatsworth House).. It is seen around here locally.  It is the name of a great pub in Wardlow Mires.  I could tell you some tales about nights there.  Well, one of them I couldn't because it's probably libellous.  Say no more...  Pub well-recommended anyway.

I looked up the crescent and it is the crest of the Ogle family.  In a way, I thought that it was quite amusing that "Big Billy" Cavendish, he who liked boobs so much, should have married an Ogle and gained an Ogle family crest; but then I knew that Ogle is a long-standing family in Northumberland and you're not allowed to make jokes about the name, unless you want to sound like a Southron.

I'm not sure what the crescent moon is doing in the Ogle family crest, we will have to see what further research brings up.  It did cross my mind that it might be linked to the pub name The Moon in Stoney Middleton.

Stoney Middleton has some interesting history.  The pub is haunted by the ghost of a Scottish pedlar who was murdered in the pub while the landlord failed to intervene.  His body was disposed of in a cavern or mine-shaft.  The medieval packhorse track or holloway which the pedlars, or jaggermen or chapmen would have used, still exists. 

The villagers of Stoney Middleton co-operated with the village of Eyam during The Plague, when they quarantined themselves to avoid spreading the disease.  They left food and provisions at the boundary stone, and the villagers of Eyam left payment in hollows in the boundary stone filled with vinegar.  The villagers of Stoney Middleton were happy to co-operate with this, but they did stone any villagers from Eyam that were spotted trying to leave their village boundaries.

Later, Stoney Middleton became famous for the story of Lover's Leap.  A jilted girl tried to commit suicide by leaping from the cliffs, but her skirt became a parachute and saved her.  Miss Aimson did a large painting of said event in her Art "A" Level, and the picture hangings on our stairs.  Buxton also has it's Lover's Leap, but I'm not sure about that one.

Further reading required...