Brumby Common
According to ‘The Folklore Of Lincolnshire by Mabel Peacock (December 1900).’ At the present time fairies are seldom heard of, but in earlier days it was not unusual to encounter them, though they do...
Specific Location: Scunthorpe
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...
Roxby Shagged Foal
Goosey Lane, or Boggart Lane, near Roxby, in Lincolnshire, has … a spectre of …… [a shagged-foal], or had as late as the third decade of this century [1800s].— Antiquary, vol. xxxiil, p. 75....
Scunthorpe General Hospital
Opening on 5 December 1929, Scunthorpe General Hospital was originally named The Scunthorpe and District War Memorial Hospital.
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