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Quite possibly the most terrifying thing ever to happen on Bodmin Moor was the appearance of the death-fetch of William Rufus (r. 1087–1100). Robert, Earl of Moreton in Normandy, was a special

Just beyond Holywell, on the edge of the River Ouse, stands the Ferry Boat Inn, according to Peter Underwood, writing in 1971, ‘haunted, for perhaps nine hundred years, by the ghost of

Woodcroft Manor, near Helpston, in the Soke of Peterborough, was where Dr Michael Hudson, one of King Charles I’s chaplains, met an untimely end. He had assembled a band of yeomen to

The large and richly decorated church at Castor, consecrated in 1124, has the distinction of being the only church in Britain dedicated to St Kyneburgha (also Kyneburga, Kyneberga, Kyneburg, Cyniburg or Cyneburg).

The rector of Barnack church in the early nineteenth century was the father of the novelist and historian Charles Kingsley, author of The Water Babies (1863), and Charles lived as a child

Now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, but once housed in the Saracen’s Head at Ware, was the Great Bed of Ware, made of oak and just over ten feet long and

According to a tradition recorded around the turn of the nineteenth century, on the site of Tring Station, just inside the parish of Aldbury, stood the castle of Sir Guy de Gravade,

Originally in the churchyard of St Peter’s, now inside the church, is the massive marble base supporting a huge pyramid flanked by urns which marked the last resting place of General Joseph

The extraordinary career of the historical Geoffrey de Mandeville inspired many strange traditions concerning him both in the Middle Ages and long after. There are conflicting tales of how he met his

Hyde Hall in this parish was said to be haunted by the ghost of Sir John Jocelyn, the third Baronet. Tradition said that, during his life, he quarrelled with the vicar of