A belief once prevailed in the western districts of Cornwall that Porthcurno was its principal port until the cove became ‘sanded up’. Some said this…

On the summit of Trencrom Hill, commanding a view over land and sea, is the small Iron Age hillfort of Trencrom Castle. Like other hill-forts…

Given that strange noises made by trickling water, distant tunnelling, and other mining operations were habitually heard by miners working in darkness and often alone,…

In 1860, Mackenzie Walcott recorded the tradition that, near Ulpha, ‘a lady was destroyed by a wolf at the well of Lady’s Dub.’ Others say…

In a letter written on 12 December 1874 while he was staying at Ripley Castle, Augustus Hare recorded the story of a moment-of-death apparition which…

Southery ‘The Legend of the Southery Wolf-Hound’, told by W. H. Barrett in Tales from the Fens (1963), says that, when Southery was an island,…

The house still known as Chicksands Priory was originally a foundation of the comparatively rare Gilbertine Order. Dissolved with other religious houses in the reign…

The grounds of Battlesden House, since demolished, are said to be haunted by the restless ghost of a dishonest steward. He is heard rattling milk…

A house called ‘Woodfield’ in Weathercock Lane must be one of the few houses in Britain to be the subject of a rates appeal on…