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
Until about 1820, the old fortress of Blenkinsopp, on the western border of Northumberland, was partly occupied by some poor families. ‘More than thirty years ago,’ says the narrator telling its story
M. A. Richardson’s Table Book (1842–5) includes an account, sent him by Robert Robertson of Sunderland, of the haunting sixty or seventy years previously of Black Heddon, near Stamfordham, by a supernatural
In the grey of the evening ‘about half a century ago’, says M. A. Richardson in his Table Book (1842–5), a stripling was making his way to Bellister Castle to seek service
‘The hell-hounds, and their ghostly huntsmen, are still heard careering along the gloomy avenues of Whittlebury,’ wrote Thomas Sternberg in 1851, using the name of the village of Whittlebury for Whittlewood, on
Passenham: The Ghosts of the Mill, the Churchyard and Bobby Bannister Passenham, a small Northamptonshire village beside the River Great Ouse, has long carried a reputation for being haunted. Its church, its
The battle of Naseby, the turning point of the English Civil War, was fought on 14 June 1645. Prince Rupert, commanding the forces of his uncle, Charles I, chose an advantageous position
The Hannington Ghost: A Seventeenth-Century Tale of Murder, Treasure, and Restless Spirits The small village of Hannington, situated between Northampton and Kettering, became the centre of a remarkable ghost story in 1675.
The former Wheatsheaf Inn at the end of Sheaf Street, Daventry, was during the Civil War the scene of a historic apparition. On 31 May 1645, Charles I, having taken Leicester by
On the eastern border of the county, south-west of Oundle, stood the old church of what was then Clapton, the spire of which was blown up ‘to save the expense of keeping
In the parish church at Bulwick is a bronze plaque to the memory of Admiral Sir George Tryon (1832–93), born at Bulwick Park, his family home. He entered the navy young and
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