Here is the headless statue of Peg O'Nell at her well in
the grounds of Waddow Hall.Peg O'Nell was a servant girl at Waddow Hall working
for the Starkie family.She use to quarrell frequently with her employers.One
night Peg grumbled about being sent to fetch some water from the well, Starkie
shouted at her,"I hope you fall and break your neck.".Unfortunately
she did just that. For years after that sad event anything that went wrong
in the Ribble Valley and especially at Waddow Hall was blamed on Peg.Years
later Starkie was so fed up of Pegs curse she got an axe and went out and
severed the head off the statue that had been errected were Ped had died.It
was said that this put a stop to Pegs so called curse.A Mr.W.S. Weeks,the
Town Clerk of Clitheroe in about the 1930's stated that the figure by the
well probably once occupied a niche in Sawley or Whalley Abbey or in some
neighbouring Church.
