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
Magpie Mine, close to Ashford-in-the-Water and now a listed industrial monument, is like a number of other lead mines in the Peak District alleged to be haunted. The mine was worked for
Highlow Hall is a small manor house of probably the sixteenth century, perched on top of a shoulder leading up to Smelting Hill and by ancient lanes from Hathersage to Abney and
Heage Hall, later divided into cottages, had the reputation of being haunted. In Ghosts of Derbyshire (1973), Clarence Daniel writes that this reputation was actively encouraged to divert attention from criminal activities,
S. O. Addy reports in Household Tales (1895) the tradition that, in the sixteenth century, all the dead in the cemetery surrounding the ancient chapel rose from their sleep in golden raiment.
Shady Lane, a stretch of road running between Great Longstone and Ashford-in-the-Water, is said to be haunted at twilight by a procession of twelve headless men carrying an empty coffin. Clarence Daniel,
From Eckington came a sombre fairytale related by the nineteenth-century collector S. O. Addy. ‘The Golden Cup’ is a horror story possibly told to children to stop them pestering adults. There was
The skulls still kept in some houses in Derbyshire were probably originally displayed as simple curios or perhaps (judging from the position of some of them in windows, like ‘witch-balls’) as evilaverting
A village of this name once existed, together with its small church, in the area which was submerged when the Ladybower Reservoir was made in the 1940s. In the 1990s, several writers
In Bradwell: Ancient and Modern (1912), Seth Evans tells the story of the ‘Lumb Boggart’ (‘Lumb’ coming from the Old English word for a pool). He writes: It used to be said
‘Of all the houses I have seen,’ wrote Louis Jennings in 1880, ‘the castle at Bolsover is the most weird and ghostly.’ Strung out along a hilltop, its history reaches back to
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