Windsor Castle Twelfth-century castle built by William the Conqueror said to be haunted by four of the British sovereigns who are buried there. The royal Ghosts of King Henry VIII, his daughter
The spectacular ruins of twelfth-century Castle Rising, dominated by massive earthworks, are said to be haunted by Queen Isabella, the ‘She-Wolf of France’. An old tradition that appears to have started with the French chronicler Froissart (c.1333–c.1405) says that she
From the Dissolution of the Monasteries to the reign of King Charles II, the manor of Creslow was Crown property, used as grazing land for cattle for the royal household. Following the
Under the waters of Lake Thirlmere, on its north-west side, lies the village of Armboth along with several farms on the shore of the original lake, Thirlmere having been appropriated in the
In 1977 Cecilia Millson, herself a long-standing resident of Bucklebury, recorded a local anecdote concerning ghosts that were not what they seemed. At one time, this alleged, the people of the village
Now restored and inhabited, Pengersick or Pengerswick Castle was in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a ruin consisting of a single tower standing in a lonely hollow running down to Pengersick Cove.
According to Enid Porter, writing in 1969, the two Jeremiah’s Tea Houses in Little Abington and Lagdon’s Grove, a wood near Bourne Bridge, perpetuate the memory of Jeremiah Lagden (with an e),
In the nineteenth and also the twentieth century, people reported seeing the ghost of a white cat sitting on a post near the remains of Congleton abbey. If human beings approached, it
Perhaps the most notorious haunting in the history of Penzance was that of a house in Chapel Street, near the parish church. The house, as William Bottrell tells us in 1880, was
Phantom ships are reputed to haunt the Solway Firth. Elliott O’Donnell, writing in 1954 of ‘nasty sea ghosts’, says: One such story is of a phantom ship that appears in the Solway
In Glimpses in the Twilight (1885), the Revd Frederick Lee reports that at West Drayton, in about 1749, the inhabitants became convinced that the vaults under the church were haunted. Strange noises
Black’s Picturesque Guide relates a supernatural tradition attached to Walla Crag: … within whose ponderous jaws the common people believe that the once errant spirit of Jamie Lowther (the first Earl of
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