Month: July 2021

A village of this name once existed, together with its small church, in the area which was submerged when the Ladybower Reservoir was made in…

In Bradwell: Ancient and Modern (1912), Seth Evans tells the story of the ‘Lumb Boggart’ (‘Lumb’ coming from the Old English word for a pool).…

‘Of all the houses I have seen,’ wrote Louis Jennings in 1880, ‘the castle at Bolsover is the most weird and ghostly.’ Strung out along…

Arbor or Arbour Low on Middleton Moor, west of Youlgreave, is a double-entrance henge monument dating from c.2000–1600 BC. Standing high above sea level and…

In his diary of ‘A Tour to the West, 1781’, the Hon. John Byng described a visit on 9 July to some friends at Caversham.…

When she was collecting Cheshire folklore in the 1930s, Christina Hole was told how a Catholic woman had seen the ghost of a priest but…

The pub in this village is named the Headless Woman, and its signboard does indeed show a woman carrying her severed head under her arm.…

The collection of local anecdotes collected from members of Women’s Institutes in the 1950s includes a standing joke against the people of Stanney as being…

In the nineteenth century a ghost known as the Gatley Shouter was said to haunt the Gatley Carrs, a swampy morass near the river in…

There is an old legend about the Breretons, formerly owners of Brereton Hall, that they,like many other ancient families, had a death omen peculiar to…