Wren Day
Wren Day is celebrated on St Stephens Day (26 December) and generally comprised of a wren being killed, attached to a pole and presented on doorsteps within the township by wrenboys, singing a rhyme...
Country and County: England
A21 – Robertsbridge
According to an article about the A21 by Sophie Madge in Kent Live on 31 October 2017, ‘drivers since the 1970s have claimed to have seen a ghost cycling in the Robertsbridge area. This...
Loch Tay Balls Of Fire
The following account was published in ‘The Peat-fire Flame’ (1937) by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor. ‘There is a story told in Breadalbain of two gealhhain, or balls of fire, which were seen flitting over the...
Drakelow – Beneath the Dragon’s Mound
Drakelow Tunnels, on Drakelow Lane between Kinver and Wolverley in Worcestershire, is aptly named. Drakelow in Anglo Saxon refers to a ‘dragon’s mound’ or burial ground. Drakelow Tunnels are themselves buried deep into the...
St Catharine’s Well, Eskdale
‘At the head of the charming valley of Eskdale stands the interesting little church dedicated to St. Catharine. Just outside the churchyard wall is St. Catharine’s Well. In olden times, on the feast-day of...
Redesmere, Siddington
A floating island with an attached legend could once be found at Redesmere in the grounds of Capesthorne Hall. The following description by Robert Charles Hope is published in The Legendary Lore of the...
St Andrew’s Well, Kirkandrews-upon-Eden
‘Only one well has been discovered dedicated to St. Andrew in the county, which is situated in the churchyard of Kirkandrews-on-Eden, and is not affected by the most intense frost or the longest drought....
Why The Wren Flies Close To The Earth
ONE day when the birds were all together, one of them said, “I have been watching men, and I saw that they had a king. Let us too have a king.” “Why?” asked the...
The Grey Palmer
Eight miles from the city of York, amidst picturesque scenery, on the banks of the River Wharfe, was anciently the site of a Convent of Nuns of the Cistercian order. There was a contemporary...
Mockerkin Tarn
According to The Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells of England by Robert Charles Hope (1893),’ A small town on the left-hand side of the road leading from Cockermouth to Egremont, and near the...
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