Verdley Wood lies about 0.7 miles from Fernhurst. A haunted places directory gives its location and says that the last wild bear in England was killed here and now haunts the forest. Shadows are seen and visitors sometimes feel they are being watched.
The claim that this was England's last wild bear is a folk-history assertion that was not checked, and wild bears are generally thought to have died out in Britain much earlier than any record of this sort. The directory credits a single submitter.
This is therefore a single thin report about a local wood, tagged dubious on the historical claim. The pin uses the coordinates the directory gives, which are for the wood and not for a particular spot.
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