Earthworks and ruins at Old Bolingbroke, west of Spilsby, are all that remain of thirteenth-century Bolingbroke Castle, believed in the seventeenth century to be haunted by an animal ghost. Gervase Holles, in
Shilbottle: Blue Cap, Cutty Soams and the Haunted Mines of Northumberland Beneath the coalfields of northern England, folklore developed in an environment where the supernatural and the brutally practical were never very far apart. A miner descending underground entered a
When she was collecting Cheshire folklore in the 1930s, Christina Hole was told how a Catholic woman had seen the ghost of a priest but had not realized it at the time;
The pub in this village is named the Headless Woman, and its signboard does indeed show a woman carrying her severed head under her arm. Pubs displaying this image (now rare) were
The collection of local anecdotes collected from members of Women’s Institutes in the 1950s includes a standing joke against the people of Stanney as being timid simpletons. Allegedly, they were so terrified
In the nineteenth century a ghost known as the Gatley Shouter was said to haunt the Gatley Carrs, a swampy morass near the river in the parishes of Stockport, Northen (now Northenden)
There is an old legend about the Breretons, formerly owners of Brereton Hall, that they,like many other ancient families, had a death omen peculiar to themselves. In their case, it concerned a
According to a tradition of the mid nineteenth century, Lyme Park (near Disley) is said to be haunted by a phantom funeral which slowly approaches the house, followed by the ghost of
This fine Tudor building on the site of a fourteenth-century priory was given by Henry VIII to Anne of Cleves, and then passed to the Hoby family, one of whom (Sir Thomas
Here, the park surrounding the family seat of the Earls of Craven is the setting for a tradition about a death omen. How old this tradition may be is not known, but
Like many stately homes, Woburn Abbey, the seat of the Dukes of Bedford, purports to be haunted. Antony D. Hippisley Coxe, writing in 1973, reports that in a room which has a
In the early eighteenth century, Talland was perhaps best known for its vicar from 1713–47, the Revd Richard Dodge. ‘Parson Dodge’ was a ghost-layer or exorcist of extraordinary power. Robert Hunt in
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