Towering over the upper reaches of Lathkill Dale, near Over Haddon, is a limestone crag formerly known as Fox Tor. Murray’s Handbook for … Derbyshire (1868), after describing how the River Lathkill
One of the most macabre hauntings in Norfolk is that of the ‘Pump Hill Ghost’ at Happisburgh, reported by Ernest Suffling c.1890. In the eighteenth century, farmers coming home late at night were sometimes terribly frightened at a figure they
Mannington Hall was the setting for a ghost story well known in the nineteenth century. The antiquary Dr Augustus Jessopp, staying at the Hall on 10 October 1879, was working in a
One of the best-known tales of the phantom coach in Norfolk is attached to the massive tomb of Edmund Reve (d. 1647) and his wife (d. 1657) in the north chancel of
Ernest Suffling, in his History and Legends of the Broad District (c.1890), tells the story of the Hickling Skater, or, as he is sometimes called, the Potter Heigham Drummer. About the time
Gunton Park was in the nineteenth century said to be haunted by a White Lady. The eighteenth-century house was the home of Lord Suffield, of whom Mackenzie Walcott writes in 1861: Lord
In the 1870s, a lane called Blow Hill (or Coldblow Hill) in Great Melton was known for the Great Melton Beech, an old landmark. Beneath its boughs at midnight, a ghostly woman
A tradition of a phantom funeral was reported by Charles Kent in 1910 at Croxton. He writes that, on Croxton Heath many years ago, some poachers killed a gamekeeper and, not knowing
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 present Jacobean mansion of Blickling Hall succeeded an earlier house belonging to the Boleyn or Bullen family. At one time it was owned by Sir Thomas Boleyn, father of Anne, Henry
Not far from Aylmerton, below the area known as the Roman Camp, are a number of shallow, circular depressions as much as 27 feet (8 m) wide. Formerly thought to mark the
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the Revd John Gunn, rector of the parish of Irstead, set out to record ‘The traditions of a single Parish, retained in the memory
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