The most famous legends in Norfolk
Babes in the WoodWatton · FamousThe children in the ballad were left to die in a wood. Watton says it was this one.
Old ShuckOverstrand · FamousA dog the size of a calf, with one burning eye. Meet him on this road and, they say, you won't see another year.
The Brown LadyEast Raynham · FamousA Country Life photographer pointed a camera up the stairs. The picture is still argued about today.
The Headless CoachBlickling · FamousA headless queen, headless horses, a headless coachman. On one night a year, they say, the whole procession comes up this drive.
The Pedlar's DreamSwaffham · FamousA pedlar walked to London because of a dream. A stranger there sent him straight home to dig under his own tree.
Ghosts 7
- Babes in the WoodWatton · FreeThe children in the ballad were left to die in a wood. Watton says it was this one.
- The Brown LadyEast Raynham · PrivateA Country Life photographer pointed a camera up the stairs. The picture is still argued about today.
- The Headless CoachBlickling · Pay to get inA headless queen, headless horses, a headless coachman. On one night a year, they say, the whole procession comes up this drive.
- The Happisburgh TorsoHappisburgh · FreeThe farm workers thought it was hunchbacked, until they saw the hump was its head.
- The Shrieking PitsAylmerton · FreeA figure in white moves from pit to pit on the heath, shrieking. Nobody knows what it lost.
- The Traitor MonkHorning / Ludham · FreeHe sold his abbey to the Normans to become abbot. They kept their word, then hanged him.
- The Poacher's CoachBreckles · PrivateA poacher followed a ghost coach through locked gates. They found him dead on the doorstep in the morning.
The Devil 2
Beasts 2
Giants 1
Heroes and kings 1
Saints and holy places 2
Customs 1
Curses 1
Mysteries 3
- The Hethel ThornHethel · FreeEngland's oldest hawthorn may have sheltered rebels. Some say it grew from a holy man's staff.
- The Lost FiddlerWarham / Binham · FreeThe village followed his music underground. At this mound it stopped, and he never came back up.
- The Friar's CorpseNorwich · FreeA jealous knight strangled a friar. Getting rid of the body turned out to be the hard part.