Ghost
Bessie Sheppard's Stone
Home she never reached.
Stand where it happened
- What's there
- Memorial stone by the road
- Legend from
- Papplewick
- Tone
- Sad
The stone by the road.
In July 1817, 17-year-old Elizabeth 'Bessie' Sheppard of Papplewick was walking home from Mansfield. Charles Rotherham beat her to death with a hedge stake. A stone marks the spot on the A60, and legend says her ghost haunts that stretch of road.