Specific Location: Bottesford

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Suicide Folklore

‘The practice of burying self murderers at cross-roads with a stake driven through their bodies, was of immemorial antiquity in England.  It was abolished in 1823. Tradition points out in almost every neighbourhood numerous...

Belvoir Castle

Belvoir Castle is home to David Manners, 11th Duke of Rutland, Marquess of Granby. It has been the seat of the Dukes of Rutland for three hundred years and the home of the Manners family over for over five hundred. In ‘The Story of My Life, volumes 4-6’ (1900), Augustus J. C. Hare gives the following story of a haunt like experience at Belvoir.