Monster boar
The Pollard Brawn
The stolen boar.
See it clearly
- What's there
- Prince Bishops' palace
- Legend from
- Bishop Auckland
- Tone
- Witty
The tongue was proof.
Around 1200, the soldier Richard Pollard killed a huge boar on the Prince Bishop's estates at Evenwood and Copley and cut out its tongue. Two men stole the carcass and claimed the reward, but Pollard proved his kill with the tongue. He was given land on the north side of Bishop Auckland.