Here is one of the more unusual flower arangements in the Chagford flower festival. This is number 23 out of 42 amazingly clever flower displays. This one is set in the year 1641 and shows a ghostly figure of Mary Whiddon standing on her tomb in St Michael's Church. The stone slab is inscribed with the words "behold a matron yet a maid" and it is believed that Mary was killed on her wedding day by a jealous lover and that this was the inspiration behind R D Blackmore's book Lorna Doone.
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