Ghost Tours of Hertfordshire and Essex


Book Description

Ghosts are ubiquitous! This guide has 62 tours, which incorporate over 280 towns and villages, and more than 800 sites. Directions are given in each tour to enable the investigator to find the sites. Map references have been included using Ordnance Survey Maps, together with the map numbers, to enable the investigator to find the haunted sites. The purpose of the guide is to enable the enthusiast to seek and observe. There are notes of interest and history notes as the counties are awash with fascinating stories and legends. So decide which tour you are going to tackle first. You may wish to meet the phantom army at Thundridge Church ruins, the screaming woman in Water Lane, Bishop’s Stortford, the Witchfinder General, Mathew Hopkins at Manningtree, or maybe the ghostly monks carrying a coffin at Belchamp Walter.




Haunted Hertford


Book Description

This fascinating book, enriched by archive photographs from private collections, contains a terrifying assortment of true-life tales from Hertford and its surrounding villages. Featuring stories of unexplained phenomena, phantoms and poltergeists – including a blood-soaked policewoman seen in a mirror, the numerous ghosts of Haileybury College, and spectral Cromwellian soldiers – discover what lurks in the shadows of this historically rich county town. Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, and accounts which have never before been published, Haunted Hertford is sure to enthral everyone interested in the supernatural history of the area.




Haunted Hertfordshire


Book Description

The most extensive and complete Hertfordshire ghost guide, packed with over 500 stories. Completely revised and updated with many new stories, this latest ghostly gazetteer boasts a bumper collection of Hertfordshire's ghost tales from five centuries of documentary sources as well as contemporary accounts from the people experiencing ghostly phenomena today. Illustrated by dozens of rare and evocative pictures, this new edition includes diary dates of regular hauntings and a gazetteer of haunted inns; perfect for the active ghost hunter as well as the armchair historian alike. Read about grey ladies, poltergeists, floating ghosts, a haunted bed, phantom monks and Civil War wraiths from nearly every town and village in the county. Whatever your belief in ghosts, this book will leave you entertained and chilled and with a much richer knowledge of Hertfordshire and its haunted history.




Ghost Tours of Hertfordshire and Essex


Book Description

Ghosts are ubiquitous! This guide has 62 tours, which incorporate over 280 towns and villages, and more than 800 sites. Directions are given in each tour to enable the investigator to find the sites. Map references have been included using Ordnance Survey Maps, together with the map numbers, to enable the investigator to find the haunted sites. The purpose of the guide is to enable the enthusiast to seek and observe. There are notes of interest and history notes as the counties are awash with fascinating stories and legends. So decide which tour you are going to tackle first. You may wish to meet the phantom army at Thundridge Church ruins, the screaming woman in Water Lane, Bishop's Stortford, the Witchfinder General, Mathew Hopkins at Manningtree, or maybe the ghostly monks carrying a coffin at Belchamp Walter.




Haunted Bishop's Stortford


Book Description

From a spectral horse and carriage heard galloping along Church Street to unexplained sightings of the market town's mysterious Grey Lady, this collection of hauntings from Bishop's Stortford is guaranteed to make your blood run cold. Featured here are reports of a shrieking woman in Water Lane, the ghost of a Victorian child at the Black Lion pub, an ominous black shape in the graveyard of St Michael's church, and even a phantom army from the days of Cromwell, among many others. So draw the curtains, dim the lights, choose your favourite chair and immerse yourself in a journey into the realms of the supernatural.




Haunted Stevenage


Book Description

From unexplained sightings to the search for evidence of ghosts, this book contains a chilling range of spooky tales from around Stevenage. Compiled by paranormal historian Paul Adams, this collection features the restless phantom of Henry Trigg, whose coffin still hangs from the roof of a local bank; a spectral monk seen wandering the corridors of North Hertfordshire College; the terrifying Six Hills hell-hound; and the ghostly Roman soldiers of Gunnelswood Road. Richly illustrated and drawing on historical and contemporary sources, Haunted Stevenage is guaranteed to make your blood run cold.




What a Liberty!


Book Description

A history of the parish of Brickendon Liberty, Hertfordshire, including the village of Brickendon and the hamlet of Wormley West End. Illustrated with over 26 photographs.




Haunted Hertford


Book Description

This fascinating book, enriched by archive photographs from private collections, contains a terrifying assortment of true-life tales from Hertford and its surrounding villages.Featuring stories of unexplained phenomena, phantoms and poltergeists - including a blood-soaked policewoman seen in a mirror, the numerous ghosts of Haileybury College, and spectral Cromwellian soldiers - discover what lurks in the shadows of this historically rich county town.Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, and accounts which have never before been published, Haunted Hertford is sure to enthral everyone interested in the supernatural history of the area.




Haunted St Albans


Book Description

St Albans is a city steeped in history, a place of former martyrs, Roman legions, battles, bloodshed ... and ghosts. Here the paranormal history of this remarkable area is brought vividly to life in the first dedicated guide to its unique haunted heritage that presents true encounters with the world of the strange and the unseen. Paranormal historian Paul Adams opens case files both ancient and modern to compile a chilling collection of supernatural experiences – the much haunted St Albans Cathedral where phantom monks have been seen in daylight and the fighting ghosts of Battlefield House and the legless apparition of a long-dead butler are just some of the unnerving experiences that await the reader.




Haunted England


Book Description

Watch out for a ghostly ship and its spectral crew off the coast of Cornwall Listen for the unearthly tread and rustling silk dress of Darlington's Lady Jarratt Shiver at the malevolent apparition of 50 Berkeley Square that no-one survives seeing Beware the black dog of Shap Fell: a sighting warns of fatal accidents England's past echoes with stories of unquiet spirits and hauntings, of headless highwaymen and grey ladies, indelible bloodstains and ghastly premonitions. Here, county by county, are the nation's most fascinating supernatural tales and bone-chilling legends: from a ghostly army marching across Cumbria to the vanishing hitchhiker of Bluebell Hill, from the gruesome Man-Monkey of Shropshire to the phantom congregation who gather for a 'Sermon of the Dead' ...