Thornton Abbey
Not much remains of Thornton Abbey, once one of the largest monastic structures in the British Isles, but what does remain looks formidable and imposing. A few crumbling stone walls remain, but the largest...
Country and County: Lincolnshire
The Strugglers Inn
The Strugglers Inn stands in the shadow of Lincoln Castle in the city’s Bailgate area. The pub’s name and sign both give clues as to the grisly history of the place – the pub...
Tattershall Castle
Tattershall Castle is an impressive structure in rural Lincolnshire. A large, red-brick tower, it was built between 1430 and 1450 by Ralph Cromwell, then Treasurer of England. It is believed to have been built...
Lackey Causey Boggat
‘Some ‘boggards’ appear in bovine form. The Lackey Causey ghost, which is reported to have come out from under a ‘tunnel’ over an insignificant streamlet into the road between Wrawby and Brigg, with the...
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....
Kirton-in-Lindsey Shagged Foal
A manifestation supposed to be a shagged-foal was seen near Kirton-in-Lindsey in a donkey-like form some fifty or fifty-five years ago [i.e. about 1842-7]. — Antiquary, vol. xxxiil, p. 75. [Examples of Printed Folk-lore...
Barton-upon-Humber Tatter Foal
Barton-upon-Humber, ‘The devil appears to persons there in the shape of a ragged colt called ‘tatter-foal.’ — Thompson, p. 736. [Examples of Printed Folk-lore Concerning Lincolnshire by Eliza Gutch, Mabel Peacock (1908)]
Barnoldby-le-Beck Shag-foal
‘An old lady used to talk of a mysterious phantom like an animal of deep black colour, which appeared before belated travellers. On hearing that we had been attacked at midnight by a large...
Jenny Stannywell
Straddling the Roman Ermine Street near Hibbaldstow was a Romano Britian settlement, the walls of which are said to have still been partially visible in the 1700s. The construction of Ermine Street is thought...
A15 Ruskington
The following article by Matthew Lodge entitled ‘The ‘haunted’ stretch of Lincolnshire road which has left drivers quaking’ appeared in Lincolnshire Live on 22 October 2019. ‘From footsteps heard in the middle of the...
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