Brent Pelham (Hertfordshire)
OS Map Ref. TL 433308
Piers Shonks was a twenty-three foot tall giant who lived on an island in Shonks' Moat, Peppsall Field. One day, whilst out hunting, he encountered a ferocious dragon and with an arrow killed it. This beast was in fact the devil's favourite and in outrage the devil swore that he would have Piers' soul whether the giant was buried inside or outside of the church.
When Piers was finally on his deathbed, he fired an arrow to determine where he was buried. The arrow sailed through a window in the church of St Mary the Virgin at Brent Pelham and embedded itself in the wall. Thus Piers was buried in the wall of the church and cheated the devil as he was neither inside not outside of the church. Piers' tomb remains to this day.