Haunted England- Page 19

In the early eighteenth century, a phantom army was seen on Souther Fell, east of Blencathra. In 1747, the Gentleman’s Magazine published an account by someone who had spoken to witnesses of

According to the Reader’s Digest’s Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain (1977), the ghost of ‘Lady Grace Bennett’ haunts Gib Lane at Calverton, which takes its name from a gibbet that one

In the churchyard at St Levan is the low altar-tomb of Captain Richard Wetherall, of the Scillonian brig Aurora, which went down in 1811. It is said that the ship sprang a

On Abington Church Farm is or was a meadow known as Sunken Church Field. Local tradition says that there was once a church or chapel there, which fell into ruins and in

According to a tradition recounted by Horace Harman in Sketches of the Bucks Countryside (1934), the Old Swan Inn at Woughton became one of the haunts of the eighteenth-century highwayman Dick Turpin

In the 1950s and ’60s, members of Women’s Institutes in Cheshire compiled two volumes of ‘village memories’, which include many interesting items of tradition and belief. Among these is the claim that

This village is the scene for a tale of ghost laying with an unusual twist to it, recorded in 1924 from informants whose memories it went back into the 19th century. The

In her Folklore of Hertfordshire (1977), Doris Jones-Baker records the tradition that in Kensworth, south-east of Dunstable, the path running over Bury Hill to the church is haunted by both a witch

A little to the east of Pegsdon Common Farm, in the parish of Shillington, is Knocking Knoll, sometimes called Money Knoll, the remains of a barrow. Today it looks like a large

On the porch of All Saints’ church are five marks said to have been left by the claws of the Devil. The local explanation of how they came to be there is