Apparitions / Hauntings / Road Ghosts
by Ian · Published January 7, 2013 · Last modified December 21, 2018
On 11 December 2002, at least one member of the public reported to the Surrey police that they had seen a car lose control and swerve off the A3 near the emergency slip road to Burpham. When the Police attended the scene they found a car in a ditch, and the remains of the driver, but the accident which had killed him had occurred five months previously.
The site of the Priory of St George in Thetford has at least two ghost associated with it, though I am unsure of any witness reports.
The Nuns’ Bridges took their name from the nearby nunnery (the Priory of St. George) and they carry the ancient trackway known as the Icknield Way over the Little Ouse River and the River Thet in Thetford. Once the site of the towns ducking stool during the middle ages, Nun’s Bridges has a story attached to it concerning the death of a young child and his ghost.
Fairies / Folklore / Welsh Fairies
by Ian · Published December 29, 2012 · Last modified December 9, 2018
Edwin Sidney Hartland gives the following tale about how a mother retrieved her twin children after they had been replaced by fairy changelings in his ‘The Science of Fairy Tales’ (1891)’ ‘Water’s antagonism to witches is notorious; and ample use was made of it in the old witch trials.
There is a local tradition that the Church of the Holy Cross in Ramsbury is one of the locations haunted by the accused infanticide ‘Wild’ William Darrell of Littlecote House who died at Darr
Thought to be the site where the accused infanticide ‘Wild’ William Darrell of Littlecote House died in a hunting accident on 1 October 1589. He is said to haunt the stile.
Apparitions / Haunted Hotels / Hauntings
by Ian · Published December 28, 2012 · Last modified December 8, 2018
Part of the Warner Leisure group, the Littlecote House Hotel is a large Elizabethan country house with a reputation for being haunted. John Ingram in his ‘The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain (1897) gives the following account.
Apparitions / Haunted Pubs / Hauntings
by Ian · Published December 27, 2012 · Last modified December 26, 2018
The Plough Inn (now The Plough@Eathorpe) is an 18th century coaching house situated on the Fosse Way, the Roman road that linked Exeter with Lincoln. There are stories associated with the pub being haunted. The outline of a figure is said to have been reported walking across the bar area and one member of staff is thought to have been poked in the shoulder whilst mopping the floor.
Apparitions / Haunted Pubs / Hauntings
by Ian · Published December 24, 2012 · Last modified December 15, 2018
The Haunted Heritage trail leaflet for Thetford refers to a haunting in the old King’s Arms public house, stating that ‘An old tenant still talks of when he lived in this pub as a child. One day he was sitting with his grandmother when a lady dressed in black appeared in the corner of the room.
During road works on Denby Lane, Loscoe, described as having "the unenviable distinction of being one of the worst stretches of road in the country," a local character, Tom Allen, was given the job of night watchman.
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