Known as the Green Man, he has been around for hundreds of years, yet his reason and purpose has been long since lost in the mists of time. Now a new book by a Billericay author seeks to discover more about the mysterious character.
Susan Hegedus, a freelance journalist, has been searching for the Green Man around Essex for several years, trying to track down examples of the leaf-covered countenance that appears in architecture.
She said: "I've been fascinated by the image for a while now – I saw something on television about it and it just caught my interest. At first I didn't set out to write a book about it, but I was soon finding so many I wanted to record them."
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