Author: Lux Ferre

A little way outside the village, on the Crowcombe road, is a wooded bank called Walford’s Gibbet, in reference to a murderer’s fate in 1789.…

At a crossroads outside the town, on the Dowlish road, is a spot marked on the map as Mary Hunt’s Grave, where people occasionally lay…

A farmhouse in this village, Higher Chilton Farm, displays a skull in a cabinet on a high shelf in its hall, facing the main door…

An anecdote from the mid nineteenth century given by Charlotte Burne illustrates the differing ways in which a paranormal occurrence could be explained. A man…

One of Charlotte Burne’s elderly informants told how a certain squire in days long past fell to his death from an upper window of Millichope…

On the outskirts of this village there is, or was, a pool which was believed to be bottomless, and was known as the Black Pool.…

In Kinlet church is a monument to Sir George Blount, who died in 1581; it was a focus for many tales about him in the…

Here, not far from Ellesmere, another tale of traditional exorcism was current in the late nineteenth century. By praying incessantly for three days and three…

Collecting folklore in the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Burne encountered a curious tradition at Fitz, which combines horror with grotesque humour. There was once a…

Edric Salvage (‘Wild Edric’), a Shropshire landowner whose name is recorded in the Domesday Book, was involved in a revolt against William the Conqueror in…