Author: Lux Ferre

The battle of Naseby, the turning point of the English Civil War, was fought on 14 June 1645. Prince Rupert, commanding the forces of his…

This small village midway between Northampton and Kettering was the scene of a Nine Days’ Wonder. In 1675, Justinian Isham wrote from Christ Church, Oxford,…

The former Wheatsheaf Inn at the end of Sheaf Street, Daventry, was during the Civil War the scene of a historic apparition. On 31 May…

On the eastern border of the county, south-west of Oundle, stood the old church of what was then Clapton, the spire of which was blown…

In the parish church at Bulwick is a bronze plaque to the memory of Admiral Sir George Tryon (1832–93), born at Bulwick Park, his family…

In 1621, the Mildmay chapel was added to the parish church of St Leonard at Apethorpe, north of Oundle, to house the huge marble monument…

Althorpe Park was in the nineteenth century the subject of a fairly singular ghost story. As John Ingram, in Haunted Homes (1888), remarks: That a…

Wolterton was built by Horatio Walpole, the brother of the statesman Sir Robert Walpole, in 1727–41. Lady Dorothy Nevill, in Mannington and the Walpoles (1894),…

Caister Castle was built by Sir John Fastolf in about 1420. The Revd John Gunn of Irstead wrote in 1849: ‘The marvellous account of a…

It was no doubt thanks to its combination of hoary antiquity and later neglect that Waxham Hall acquired the reputation of being haunted. By the…