In this short episode I speak to Chris Hare and Jacqueline Simpson about the mysterious Knucker Hole, home to a water monster.
You can find more about this legend and others like it in Chris Hare's book The Secret Shore :
https://friendsofthesouthdowns.org.uk/shop/merchandise/the-secret-shore-book/
Jacqueline has written about the Knucker in her books Folklore of Sussex and British Dragons :
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1093354.British_Dragons
There's also another Knucker, or Necker, to be found lurking in Deptford Creek, you can read about that, and more strangeness at the Portals of London blog:
https://portalsoflondon.com/2019/01/13/drowned-lair-the-deptford-creek-necker/