The following extract is taken from Cholesbury-cum-st Leonards Local History Group Newsletter No 17 2013 – 2014, and concerns an article by Anne Batchelor tracing back her Tudor ancestors to Chapel Farm and her good relationship with the family who now own it now.
Black Dogs / Hauntings / Occult / Occult Traditions / Witchcraft
by Ian · Published April 6, 2014 · Last modified December 30, 2018
The following story from ‘English Fairy and Other Folk Tales (1890)’ by Edwin Sidney Hartland concerns a Black Dog that haunted the site of a gibbet in which the body of a witch killer was displayed.
Apparitions / Civil War Hauntings / Hauntings
by Ian · Published July 30, 2008 · Last modified December 30, 2018
During the English Civil War, Wigginton Common served as camp for some of Cromwell’s troops. They used it as a base from where they could bombard Berkhamstead castle. There have been reports of Roundheads, seen on the common in the evening at twilight as the light begins to fade.
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