Tales

Legends of the places around us, told as they have been handed down. Each ends with a note on where it comes from.

• The Lady at the GateLlanthony Secunda Priory, Gloucester, 1861A young woman meets a lady in white at the priory gateway, and counts the rings on her hand.
• The Lovely LadyLlanthony Secunda Priory, Gloucester, 1884A radiant lady rises through the floor of a cottage in the priory gateway. Or the tenants were behind with the rent.
• The Screams of BerkeleyBerkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, 1327A deposed king is brought to Berkeley as a prisoner. On one September night, the town hears him.
• The Bishop's RoomThe Ancient Ram Inn, Wotton-under-Edge, GloucestershireA leaning inn by the church, a crowded room upstairs, and something dragged across the attic floor.
• The Hounds of the OtherworldCŵn Annwn, Wales and the MarchWhite hounds with red ears hunt the winter sky. The closer they come, the quieter they get.
• The King Who Took Seven StepsThe Rollright Stones, on the Oxfordshire and Warwickshire borderA witch, a wager and an army turned to stone on the ridge above Long Compton.
• The Sealed RoomMinster Lovell Hall, OxfordshireThe last Lovell lord rode away from a lost battle. Two centuries later, workmen opened a hidden vault.