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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   Badwell Ash ~ Nan Silvers Pond
  The bottomless beck   Barking ~ The haunted oak
Binham ~ The ghostly monk   Beccles ~

Nelson's Tree

Brooke ~ Shrieking Woman's Grove   Blythburgh ~ Toby's Walks
Burgh St. Peter ~ The churchyard skeleton   Burgate ~ The hanging tree
Cromer ~ Haunted tunnel Burgh ~

Skeleton Hole

Croxton ~ The hearse from the pit White-foot Lane
East Runton ~ A smuggler's grave Butley ~ The suicidal prior
East Somerton ~ The witch tree Clopton (near Woodbridge) ~ The guarded treasure
Geldeston ~ The skeleton in the pond Covehithe ~ The faceless lady
Gillingham ~ The haunted gate Dallinghoo ~ The haunted gatepost
Gorleston ~ The Lily Pit   Eyke ~ White Woman's Lane
Great Melton ~ The Blow Hill pit   Fornham St. Genevieve ~ Red Hannah

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
Harleston ~ The Witch-pool   Hadleigh ~ Mary Miller's grave
Hellington ~ Battle on the Common   Icklingham ~ Deadman's Grave
Hickling ~ The hooded monk     The witch's path
Hilgay ~ Ghost at the church   Knodishall ~ The shadowy phantom
Holme Hale ~ Battle echoes   Lowestoft ~ The man in white shirt-sleeves
Horstead ~ The mill pond   Mendham ~ Hulk's Grave
Ingham ~ Ghost in the Pit   Polstead ~ Hellin's Bottom
Kirby Bedon ~ The churchyard rider   Rendlesham ~ A haunted pond
Langley ~ The monks under the Broad   Sotterley ~ The ghost at the oak tree
Long Stratton ~ The bound ghost     Kate's Parlour
Lyng ~ The phantom nuns   Stratford St. Mary ~ Four Sisters
  The Great Stone of Lyng   Tannington ~ Fiddler's Hill
 

Balor's Pit

  Uggeshall ~ Hogg's Corner
Moulton St. Mary ~ The headless horseman   Walberswick ~

The Heath Horse

Neatishead ~ Heard's Hole   Wenhaston ~ Peggy's Stile
Northrepps ~ The Shrieking Pit Westleton ~ The Red Stile
North Walsham ~ Around the church backwards Westley ~ The White Lady at the old church
Norwich ~ Cromwell's ghostly horses West Stow ~ The haunted thorns
Old Catton ~ White Woman Lane Winston ~ The haunted pool
Ranworth ~ The phantom guard dog Wissett ~

Cole's Arch

Santon ~ The haunted well     The grey lady's pond
Shelfanger ~ The candlestick in the pond     The ghost on the tree
Sheringham ~ The haunted heap of stones     The Halleluia Pond
Shipdham ~ A haunted pond     Lodge Pond
Swanton Morley ~ The haunted tree      
Taverham ~ Ghost Hill    
Unknown location ~  Thet Hill
Wicklewood ~ The coach from the pit
Worstead ~ The White Lady of Christmas
   

          CAMBRIDGESHIRE

                               ESSEX
Cambridge ~ Grey Lady   Ashdon ~ The Lady Well
  A haunted gateway   Ashingdon ~ The bloodstained hill
Elm ~ Light on the mound     The crying ghost
Great Abington ~ Sunken Church Field   Barling ~ Weir Pond
  A haunted well   Basildon ~ The red monk
Harston ~ The lady at the bridge   Boxted ~ Betty Potter's Dip
Heydon ~ The haunted ditch   Brentwood ~ Mosbach Pond
Horseheath ~ Money Lane   Canewdon ~ Legends of the witches
Leverington ~ Rabbit Hill   Canvey Island ~ Lost in the Lake
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

Murrow ~ Ghost Hill Ghost from the water
Stapleford ~ The Wandlebury warrior   Colchester ~ Charlotte's Well
Stow cum Quy ~ The lady's treasure   Danbury ~ Moores Bridge
Waterbeach ~ Monks in the tunnel   Epping ~ The suicide pool

Soldiers' Hill

West Wratting ~ The White Lady at the Gate   Ghosts from the pond
Whittlesford ~ The Chronicle Hills   Felsted ~ The Felsted Hag
      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

      Mistley ~ Hopping Bridge & Ducking Pond
      Mount Bures ~ Craig's Bridge
      Mucking ~ The lady in the pond
        The smuggler at the tree
      Pitsea ~

The monk on the mount

The witch's grave (that isn't)

      Ramsden Crays ~ Crays Hill
      Runwell ~ Circling the church
      Southend ~ The bride in the pond
      Stanford-le-Hope ~ The pony in the pond
      St. Osyth ~ St. Osyth's Well
      Thorrington ~ Secret tunnel
      Thundersley ~

The Daws Heath burials

Shrieking Boy's Wood

The drowned woman at the stile

      Tollesbury ~ Jordan's Green
      Waltham Abbey ~ Hangman's Hill
      Wicken Bonhunt ~ The haunted battlefield
      Wormingford ~ Ghost of the mere

                                                   

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