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
Here, as at PIMPERNE, the ghost of a dog dragging a rattling chain is said to run invisibly through the village square, heading for the hills. According to an informant in about 1969: The dog had apparently been well treated
According to a story recounted to the folklorist Roy Palmer, a cat haunts the junction of Broad Street and High Street, but it is not precisely a ghost, for it has never
Near Bisley there is a large round barrow known as Money Tump which had the reputation of being haunted. J. B. Partridge reported in 1912 a tale of some men coming home
A chapbook printed in 1703 and entitled A Gloucestershire Tragedy gives a lurid account of a scandal and crime which had supposedly just occurred at Alvington; its title page sums up the
According to Winifred Beaumont in The Wormingford Story (1958), local tradition says that during the Danish incursions an English nun, who was a chieftain’s daughter, was cruelly slain by the invaders. In
Sir Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, who had a castle on Bury Hill, was the arch-villain of the reigns of Stephen and Matilda (Maud). His notoriety has inspired legends in many
According to Peter Haining, the Revd Sabine Baring-Gould, writing in 1904, was the first to record a local belief that the figure of a Roman centurion was seen patrolling the Strood (pronounced
Rochford Hall was once owned by Sir Thomas Boleyn, also of BLICKLING HALL, Norfolk. According to a persistent tradition, it was the birthplace in 1507 of his daughter Anne. Charlotte Mason, writing
According to local legend, ever since his death in 1739, the ghost of the highwayman Dick Turpin, born at Hempstead, visits Loughton three times every year. He gallops down Trap’s Hill on
Great Hawkwell Wood at Hockley was once notorious for its ‘shrieking boy’. In the wood was an oak tree known as ‘the double tree’ as it divided into two trunks, joining again
The remains of Hadleigh Castle, built in about 1231, once had an eerie reputation. In his History of Rochford Hundred (1867), Philip Benton says that, among other ‘superstitious’ tales of the village
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