Barrow Hill, Mersea Island
Although most modern accounts attribute the haunting of THE STROOD to a Roman centurion, some say it goes back to the time of the Danes,…
Ambresbury Banks
Epping Forest is a remnant of the primeval forest that once stretched from the Thames to the Wash and from the Lea to the Essex…
Tudhoe
Towards the close of the eighteenth century, says M. A. Richardson, writing in 1842, the occupier of Tudhoe mill, a quiet, steady, sober man, had…
Stob-Cross
Robert Surtees in his History … of Durham (1816–40) writes of Stob-Cross, near Cornforth: And here Stobcross ‘brings on a village tale.’ A few fields…
Staindrop
In the Newcastle Magazine of June 1872 appeared an account of a haunting experienced by Mrs Brook, a dressmaker then living at Oakland, not far…
Sedgefield
The Revd John Garnage, rector of Sedgefield, died in the second week of December 1747, about a week before the tithes payable to the incumbent…
Raby Castle
In a letter to Sir Cuthbert Sharp, the county historian Robert Surtees told him that Christopher, first Lord Barnard, was persuaded by his wife into…
Neville’s Cross, Durham
Neville’s Cross, the mutilated remains of which are now a listed ancient monument, gave its name to a battle fought here on 17 October 1346…
Langley Hall
The ruins of Langley Hall, built in the reign of Henry VIII and sited picturesquely on a hillside east of Durham, inspired a legend of…
Dinsdale, Tim
DINSDALE. TIM (1924- 1987) Tim Dinsdale was born into a British family in China. When his parents returned to England, Dinsdale attended and graduated from…