Deep in the west of Herefordshire, at the bottom of Garway Hill, the church of St Michael lies quietly at the end of a leafy hedge-lined...

Belas Knap is a chambered long barrow built during the Neolithic era, lying on Cleeve Hill in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. Although it...

Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire is a moated manor house first built during the late 1300s. One of its early owners was the nobleman Sir...

Deep in the county of Herefordshire, within sight of the Welsh border, lies the village of Kilpeck. The name means “the cell of Pedic”, a...

As autumn descends, why not explore some of the strange places of the Midlands of England from the comfort of your armchair? Haunted...

Hope Bagot is a tiny village nestling in a valley between Clee Hill and Ludlow. The Church of Saint John the Baptist stands sentinel over...

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“Who Put Bella in the Witch Elm?” - a question first asked in 1944 when the words were painted on a warehouse wall in Digbeth,...

When the Great Plague ravaged London in 1665 a cruel twist of fate brought the bubonic plague virus all the way up to the Peak District...

Eldon Hole lies on a hillside on a remote farm near the Derbyshire village of Peak Forest. It was always believed to be a genuine...

Something strange crouches in a corner of the Three Stag's Heads inn near Wardlow Mires in the Derbyshire Peak District. A mummified cat...

Odd things lurk in the back alleys and yards of our cities. In Worcester this strange head with its pained expression is set into an...

The Cotswolds area of England has some of the highest concentrations of ancient sites in the whole of Britain. Stone circles, standing...

The Black Alchemist was a book written by Andrew Collins in 1988 which went on to become something of a cult classic. To briefly...

The Hawk Stone is a solitary megalith that stands at the edge of a field in Oxfordshire, near the village of Dean. The name might ring a...

I recently had a chat with the Folklore Dark ladies for their podcast, have a watch/listen if you'd like. We talked about a lot of...

Minster Lowell is an absolutely beautiful village that nestles next to the River Windrush in England's Cotswolds region, but its most...

Situated on a wooded hill on the outskirts of the city of Worcester, the Church of St Nicholas is a landmark familiar to many as they...

Haunted roads have always been a part of British supernatural folklore, with the Midlands of England being no exception. A minor stretch...

I mentioned the church at Breedon-on-the-Hill in my last post as it used to be commonly said that an effigy of the griffin of Griffydam...