Wayland's Smithy is an ancient monument lying quietly within a group of trees just off the Ridgeway. Walkers along the ancient chalk...

The Northern outskirts of Birmingham may not be the kind of place you'd expect to find a tranquil yet spooky ruined mansion turned asylum...

Upton on Severn is a beautiful small town set around the banks of the Severn in Worcestershire. Over the centuries it has seen it's fair...

Lost villages and abandoned churches have always been the stuff of folklore and fuel for scary tales up and down the country. Boughton in...

The tiny Worcestershire village of Lulsley is tucked away near the Teme river off the main road from Worcester to Bromyard. Overlooking...

Happy May Day! Beltane, Walpurgisnacht, Maiouma, the festival goes by many names and is celebrated for many different reasons. From a...

Worcester Cathedral is an impressive and fascinating building in it's own right, but a nearby structure that forms part of the Cathedral...

The figure of Saint George, despite being adopted by several countries around the world, is still regarded as one of the quintessential...

Meon Hill is a mysterious plateau that looks down on the villages of Lower Quinton, Mickleton and Ilmington. It has always had a...

Places of eerie legend aren't all ancient or even that old...this is "Devil's Arch" in Worcester. A simple walkway under a railway line...

Guys Cliffe is a strange complex of buildings and caves clustered on a cliff overlooking the River Avon in Warwickshire. The ruin of Guys...

You may recall my last post about the Devil's Chapel in the Forest of Dean, it's close proximity to the Lydney estate and the traditional...

The Forest of Dean holds many secrets within it's green expanse, and last year I was invited to visit one of them. Scowles are strange...

Berkeley Castle stands south west of the city of Gloucester looking out across the Severn estuary. It has been lived in by the Berkeley...

Caynton Hall is mansion built during the late 1700s as a “gentleman's house” for a William Yonge, who inherited the land from his late...

We're cheating just a tiny bit today, as this place of mystery wasn't technically in Mercia, rather it lay just a mile or two over the...

During the medieval era it was not such a strange idea for a noble person to be buried in several different places upon their death, so...

Croome Court is a magnificent mansion and estates just outside the city of Worcester. Formally a vast marsh with an old Stuart era house...

A lonely pile of stone ruins lies in a marshy field on the edge of the Worcestershire town of Redditch. This is what remains of Bordesley...

Perry Wood is what remains of an ancient forest that once stretched from Worcester down almost to Oxford. Now nestled around the south...