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Hidden East Anglia:

Landscape Legends of Eastern England

 

The haunted landscape:

 

          NORFOLK

                 SUFFOLK
Aylmerton ~ The Shrieking Pits   Akenham ~ The Devil at the church
Beeston Regis ~ Farmer Reynolds' stone   Beccles ~

Nelson's Tree

Binham ~ The ghostly monk   Blythburgh ~ Toby's Walks
Brooke ~ Shrieking Woman's Grove   Burgate ~ The hanging tree
Burgh St. Peter ~ The churchyard skeleton   Burgh ~

Skeleton Hole

White-foot Lane

Croxton ~ The hearse from the pit
East Runton ~ A smuggler's grave Butley ~ The suicidal prior
Gillingham ~ The haunted gate Clopton (near Woodbridge) ~ The guarded treasure
Gorleston ~ The Lily Pit Dallinghoo ~ The haunted gatepost
Great Melton ~ The Blow Hill pit   Eyke ~ White Woman's Lane

The distressed ghost

  Friston ~ White Hannah
Happisburgh ~ The Pump Hill spectre Gisleham ~ The phantom battle
Hardley ~ The haunted cross-stone   Great Barton ~ The haunted mere
Hickling ~ The hooded monk   Hadleigh ~ Mary Miller's grave
Hilgay ~ Ghost at the church   Icklingham ~ Deadman's Grave
Ingham ~ Ghost in the Pit   Lowestoft ~ The man in white shirt-sleeves
Kirby Bedon ~ The churchyard rider   Polstead ~ Hellin's Bottom
Langley ~ The monks under the Broad   Rendlesham ~ A haunted pond
Long Stratton ~ The bound ghost   Sotterley ~ The ghost at the oak tree
Lyng ~ The phantom nuns     Kate's Parlour
  The Great Stone of Lyng   Tannington ~ Fiddler's Hill
 

Balor's Pit

  Walberswick ~

The Heath Horse

Moulton St. Mary ~ The headless horseman Wenhaston ~ Peggy's Stile
Neatishead ~ Heard's Hole Westleton ~ The Red Stile
Northrepps ~ The Shrieking Pit West Stow ~ The haunted thorns
Norwich ~ Cromwell's ghostly horses Winston ~ The haunted pool
Old Catton ~ White Woman Lane   Wissett ~

Cole's Arch

Ranworth ~ The phantom guard dog     The grey lady's pond
Santon ~ The haunted well     The ghost on the tree
Shelfanger ~ The candlestick in the pond     The Hallelujah Pond
Sheringham ~ The haunted heap of stones    

 

Shipdham ~ A haunted pond  
Swanton Morley ~ The haunted tree
Unknown location ~  Thet Hill
     

          CAMBRIDGESHIRE

                               ESSEX
Cambridge ~ Grey Lady   Ashdon ~ The Lady Well
Great Abington ~ Sunken Church Field   Barling ~ Weir Pond
Heydon ~ The haunted ditch   Boxted ~ Betty Potter's Dip
Horseheath ~ Money Lane   Canewdon ~ Legends of the witches
Litlington ~ Heaven's Walls   Chelmsford ~ Running round the church
Little Downham ~ Witch's Hole   Chrishall ~ The plague tree
Littleport ~ Bulldog Bridge   Clacton ~

Bocking's Elm

Ghost from the water

Murrow ~ Ghost Hill
Stapleford ~ The Wandlebury warrior   Colchester ~ Charlotte's Well
Stow cum Quy ~ The lady's treasure   Danbury ~ Moores Bridge
Waterbeach ~

Monks in the tunnel

Soldiers' Hill

  Epping Forest ~ The suicide pool
Felsted ~ The Felsted Hag
Whittlesford ~ The Chronicle Hills   Foulness ~ A haunted pond
      Fryerning ~ Another haunted pond
      Great Baddow ~ Secret tunnels
      Great Wakering ~ Baker's Grave
      Greensted ~ Draper's Corner
      Hawkwell ~ The double tree
      Horndon on the Hill ~ The donkey pond
      Kelvedon Hatch ~ The ghost at the pond
      Little Baddow ~

Alice at Grace's Bridge

Colam Lane pond

      Little Waltham ~ The witch's stone of Scrapfaggots Green
      Maldon ~ Secret tunnel
      Mersea Island ~

The haunted causeway...

...and the haunted mound

      Mount Bures ~ Craig's Bridge
      Pitsea ~

The monk on the mount

The witch's grave (that isn't)

      Ramsden Crays ~ Crays Hill
      Stanford-le-Hope ~ The pony in the pond
      St. Osyth ~ St. Osyth's Well
      Thundersley ~

The Daws Heath burials

Shrieking Boy's Wood

      Wormingford ~ Ghost of the mere

                                                   

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