Passenham's old watermill, standing on the River Great Ouse close to the Buckinghamshire border, carries a brief and genuinely undetailed local tradition of strange cries reportedly heard coming from the mill wheel after dark, a haunting reduced to its barest possible essentials.
No further description of the sound itself, its supposed source, or any specific witness account survives anywhere in the record consulted for this entry, which makes this one of the genuinely thinnest entries found anywhere in this county's whole list.
It is included here honestly as exactly that: a fragment of village legend rather than anything more developed, the mill wheel's mysterious cries offering nothing beyond their own bare existence for anyone hoping to learn more about what, or who, might actually be responsible for them.
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