Month: July 2021

Memories were still vivid in the 1930s of ‘the Agdell ghost’. Edwin Grey, in Cottage Life in a Hertfordshire Village (1935), remembered listening to working…

In the nineteenth century, many tales were told of the eerie happenings in and around Hergest Court, a fifteenth-century manor house a little over a…

According to the Bible, to defraud others of part of their land by secretly shifting boundary markers is a particularly serious sin; ‘cursed be he…

In the nineteenth century and earlier, there was a fairly widespread belief that on one night of the year anyone bold enough to keep vigil…

Richard Gough, an eighteenth-century antiquary who published in 1789 a translation of William Camden’s Britannia with additional material, describes a curious heirloom associated with the…

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Avenbury church (now disused) was reputed haunted; organ music could be heard at a time when there…

This village, like many others, had a traditional tale about a ghost and how it was laid; in 1921 Andrew Haggard, a writer who collected…

According to a tragic legend, so many people of this village became infected in the Great Plague of 1665 that the rector of the parish…

This is a Bronze Age round barrow, but its name comes from its being used as a place of execution in 1736. Michael Morey (or…