The ‘quaint little village of Polesworth’ may seem an unlikely place to find the ‘shades of departed monks’, but read on to hear a chilling and ghostly tale first told ...
This document is one of a number of medical recipes preserved in the collection relating to the Willes family of Newbold Comyn. This bundle consists of documents written in various ...
Chalk horses carved into hill sides, whether they are ancient like the one at Uffington or more modern, like some others in the locality. However, there was a red horse ...
On the present day B4086 Wellesbourne Road is Littleham Bridge. One evening in November 1820 William Hirons (or Hixons), a yeoman farmer from nearby Alveston, was on his way home ...
The secondary school which I attended, Kineton High, was in sight of Edgehill, where the first major battle of the British Civil War was fought. A story used to go ...
In the early 19th century, the north side of Coventry Cathedral was supposedly haunted by a ghostly monk. It got so frequent that a residents of Priory Row used to ...
Gibbet Hill (or Gallows Hill as it was originally known) is on the outskirts of Coventry and bisects the Kenilworth Road. It has been used as a place of execution ...
Old Nick’s Ash Tree and the Mill Dam
Where Millenium Square is now in Coventry, used to be a lake. It was fed by the Sherbourne and Radford Brook. This reduced ...
It’s been done many times before; legitimate a royal dynasty, or a hereditary right to power by piggybacking on one of Britain’s most lasting myths. Geoffrey of Monmouth featured Arthur ...
I had parents and grandparents from both Warwickshire and Staffordshire, and grew up in far South Warwickshire near the Oxfordshire / Gloucestershire county boundaries, so I have dialect words and ...
1 The morticed base of Knightlow Cross stands on a tumulus. The shaft of the cross was probably destroyed in the 16th century.
2 Medieval wayside cross. Square socket-stone only, lying ...
The site of Knightlow wayside cross which is Medieval in origin. The cross shaft is no longer standing but the stone base is still visible in the top of a mound. The site is situated at Knightlow Hill, 1km north west of Stretton on Dunsmore.
Whitnash has been settled since pre-Christian Celtic times. The present day church of St Margaret is on a mound which may have been of pagan importance in pre-Christian times. It ...
Meon Hill was said to have been caused by Old Nick himself: he was watching the construction of Evesham Abbey from Ilmington Hill when, in a fit of annoyance, he ...
A story says that a farmer called Humphrey Boffin took took the King Stone to either build a footbridge or dam a water course in his farm yard. It took ...
The A45 London Road passes through Ryton on Dunsmore and past Knightlow Hill, where the ancient Wroth Silver ceremony takes place each St Martin’s Eve. There is, however, a phenomena ...
On the road going from Wixford to Bidford-on-Avon is a turn to the left called, “George’s Elm Lane”. According to local legend St George was buried by the roadside, near ...
Think of King Arthur and certain images come to mind; jousting, the Lady of the Lake, the Launcelot, Guinevere, Arthur love triangle to name but three,. Think of places, and ...
The Dun Cow was an important local folklore that told of an enormous cow in Shropshire that was owned by a giant. The cow had an inexhaustible supply of milk ...