England

Rochester Cathedral is one of the several churches which are said to have had their main doors covered in skin flayed from Danish warriors. Samuel Pepys was told about this in 1661,

The ruins of Langley Hall, built in the reign of Henry VIII and sited picturesquely on a hillside east of Durham , inspired a legend of a phantom coach. William Henderson of Folk-love of Northern Counties (1866) records, 'Night after night.. when it is sufficiently dark, the Headless Coach whirls along the rough approach to Langley Hall, near Durham, drawn by black and fiery steeds'.

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Torchwood was the series in Dr Who when the Daleks and the Cybermen met and we lost Rose (Billie Piper) to another dimension.

This prehistoric long barrow in Alton Priors is of particular interest to folklorists for its older name, Wodnesbeorh recorded in an Anglo-Saxon charter. This can only mean 'Woden's Barrow', confirming the link of the pre-Christian war-god to mysterious landscape features which is also indicated by names given to the earthworks of Grim's Ditch, Berkshire and Wandsdyke.

On Abington Church Farm is or was a meadow known as Sunken Church Field. Local tradition says that there was once a church or chapel there, which fell into ruins and in the course of time became buried.

The historical facts behind the Turpin legend are well documented, and it is equally clear when and by whom, the popular image was created.

Dick Turpin was a butcher's son born in Hempstead, Essex in 1705. He joined a group of violent criminals active on the outskirts of London in 1734/5. Well armed, they would break into a house, and threaten, beat up, or burn the occupants until they handed over their money. In 1735, most of the group was captured, and hanged or transported. Turpin remained at large, but turned to a differant crime, namely highway robbery. On 1st May 1737, in Whitechapel, he accidentaly shot one of his own comrades whilst firing at a man whose horse he had stolen; he then hid in Epping Forest where he killed a man who tried to arrest him.

The grounds of Battlesden House, since demolished, are said to be haunted by the restless ghost of a dishonest steward. He is heard rattling milk pails and crying;

'Milk and water sold I ever,
Weight and measure I gave never,

It was Summer 1975. A farmer was in the dutch barn of his farm. The sun was blazing and the corn didn't need much drying but he still put the corn through the complicated drying process.

He climbed the stairs of the 'drying barn' to check that all was well. He was happy.

Roy Palmer, who wrote 'The Folklore of Hereford and Worcester' (1992, commented on various macabre traditions involving ghosts and hunting hounds. The owners of Church Farm at Besford used to have the task of kennelling foxhounds for the local hunt, on a part of their land known as 'Dog Kennel Place'. A tale current in the 19th and 20th centuries alleged that on one occasion, in the 18th century, the kennelman was woken by hearing some disturbance among the hounds, and went to investigate. He did not return. Next day, people found his boots, with his feet and legs still in them, but nothing more, for the dogs had eaten the rest of him. From then on, ghostly boots, with their spurs jingling, could sometimes be heard trampling across Dog Kennel Place. Palmer notes that the story receive fresh impetus from its apparent confirmation in 1930, when a skeleton lacking its lower legs was discovered at Church Farm; however, this skeleton, and others subsequently found there, were probably men killed in the battle of Worcester in the Civil War.

In 1977, a lady from Morcott reported to a Rutland Local History society that when she walked her dog down Green Lane, at Barrowden, the dog would never pass a certain spot without making a detour.