English country house near Altrincham, in Greater Manchester, surrounded by historic formal gardens and a deer park. Built in the early 18th century by the Earls of Warrington, passing to the Earls of Stamford by inheritance, it has been owned by the National Trust since the death of the 10th and last Earl of Stamford in 1976.
Dunter
Spirits also known as powries, said to haunt the peel towers and castles of the Scottish border with England.
Early Closing Association
19th-century movement in support of the closure of shops on Saturday afternoons.
Eastbourne manslaughter
1860 legal case concerning the death of 15-year-old Reginald Cancellor at the hands of his teacher, Thomas Hopley.
Eccles cake
Named after the town in Lancashire where it was first made, the Eccles cake is a confection made of flaky pastry filled with currants.
Ectoplasm
Gelatinous substance that exudes from the body of a spiritualist medium during a seance, which the spirits being communicated with are able to mould into shapes allowing them to communicate with the living.
Edmund Hartley
Cunning man who is alleged to have practised witchcraft at Cleworth Hall in Lancashire
Education Act 1496
Act of the Scottish Parliament to make education mandatory for the eldest sons of barons and freeholders.
Edward Akroyd
Industrialist, politician and philanthropist.
Edward Ormerod
English mining engineer and inventor who worked at Gibfield Colliery in Atherton, Lancashire where he devised and tested his safety device, the Ormerod safety link or detaching hook.
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