Jennifer Westwood - Haunted England: The Penguin Book of Ghosts

Jennifer Westwoods books include Albion: A Guide to Legendary Britain (1985), Gothick Cornwall (1992), Lost Atlantis (1997) and On Pilgrimage (2003). Dr Jacqueline Simpsons books include Icelandic Folktales and Legends (1971, 2004), The Folklore of the Welsh Border (1976, 2004), British Dragons (1980, 2000) and, with Steve Roud, A Dictionary of English Folklore (2000).

For each book, the authors name, title, etc. are given in full the first time it is mentioned in a particular chapter, but abridged for the rest of the chapter. If it is mentioned again in a different chapter, full details will be given again at the first reference in that chapter. We have not included page references, which can be found in full in the bibliography for The Lore of the Land (Westwood & Simpson, Penguin 2005).

Apsley Guise Peter Underwood, The AZ of British Ghosts (London, 1971; new edn, 1992; repr. 1993). Battlesden [Readers Digest,] Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain, 2nd edn (London, 1977). Chicksands Priory Andrew Green, Our Haunted Kingdom (London, 1975); F. W. Kuhlicke, Medieval Spooks in Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire Magazine 15:119 (Winter 1976); Laurence Meynell, Bedfordshire (London, 1950); Betty Puttick, Ghosts of Bedfordshire (Newbury, Berkshire, 1996; repr. 2003); Roger W. Ward, Legend and Lore including Extracts from History and Annals of Chicksands Priory (pr. pub., 1983). Kensworth Richard Baxter, The Certainty of the Worlds of Spirits (London, 1691); [Daniel Defoe,] Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions. Being an account of what they are, and what they are not (London, 1727); Peter Haining, A Dictionary of Ghosts (London, 1982; 2nd edn, Waltham Abbey, 1993); Doris Jones-Baker, The Folklore of Hertfordshire (London, 1977). Knocking Knoll James Dyer, Barrows of the Chilterns, Archaeological Journal 116 (1959, pub. 1961); W. B. Gerish, in Gerish Collection, HALS (Gerish Box Pirton, part of D/Gr61); Ellen Pollard, Some Points of Interest in and around Hitchin, Hertfordshire Illustrated Review 2 (1894). Millbrook Matthew Edgeworth, The beautiful lady and a headless spectre, Ampthill and Flitwick Times (19 July 1984), cutting from Local Studies Library, Bedford Central Library; Menzies Jack, Man, Myth and Millbrook, Bedfordshire Times (5 February 1971), cutting from Local Studies Library, Bedford Central Library; Puttick, Ghosts of Bedfordshire.Odell Janet Bord, Footprints in Stone (Wymeswold, Loughborough, 2004); [John Leland,] The Itinerary of John Leland in England and Wales in or about the Years 15351543, ed. Lucy Toulmin Smith, 5 vols. (London, 190610; pa. edn, 1964), vol. 5; Puttick, Ghosts of Bedfordshire; [Readers Digest,] Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain.Wilden Christina Hole, Haunted England (London, 1940; new edn, Bath, 1964, re-iss. 1972), calling the village Willesden. Woburn Abbey Janet and Colin Bord, Atlas of Magical Britain (London, 1990); Antony D. Hippisley Coxe, Haunted Britain (London, 1973; pa. edn, 1975); Puttick, Ghosts of Bedfordshire.

Bisham AbbeyBisham Abbey, Berkshire (National Sports Council Booklet, n.d.); Charles Harper, Haunted Houses (London, 1907; 3rd edn, 1927; pa. repr. 1996); Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat, ch. 13 (London, 1889; repr. Bristol, 1946); Anne Mitchell, Ghosts along the Thames (Bourne End, 1972); Murrays Handbook for Travellers in Berkshire, ed. J. M. Falkner (London, 1902); The Story of All Saints Parish Church Bisham, comp. H. A. Jones, rev. H. Douglas Sim (1967), rev. and suppl. Patricia Burstall (1990). Bucklebury Cecilia Millson, Tales of Old Berkshire (Thatcham, 1977). Caversham [Hon. John Byng,] The Torrington Diaries, ed. C. Bruyn Andrews, 4 vols. (London, 19348), vol. 1. Cumnor Place Alfred Bartlett, Historical and Descriptive Account of Cumnor Place (Oxford and London, 1850); Sir Bartle Frere, Amy Robsart of Wymondham (Norwich, 1937); John H. Ingram, The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain, 4th edn (London, 1888); Elizabeth Jenkins, Elizabeth the Great (London, 1958; club edn, 1971); VCH: Berkshire, vol. 4, ed. William Page and P. H. Ditchfield, (London, 1924). Hampstead Marshall Information to J.W. from Rachael Arthur, daughter of Robert Graham, August 2003. Inkpen Leslie V. Grinsell, Folklore of Prehistoric Sites in Britain (Newton Abbot, 1976); Jeremy Harte, Stormy Weather, 3d Stone 47 (2003). South MoretonBerkshire Local History Recording Scheme (1924), cited in David Nash Ford, Royal Berkshire History, website www.berkshirehistory.com/legends, 2003. Windsor Castle Hector Bolitho, The Romance of Windsor Castle (London, c.1943). Windsor Great Park Jeremy Harte, Herne the Hunter: A Case of Mistaken Identity?, At The Edge 3 (1996); Michael Petry, Herne the Hunter (London, 1972).

Calverton [Readers Digest,] Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain, 2nd edn (London, 1977); VCH: Buckinghamshire, vol. 4, ed. William Page (London, 1927). Creslow Manor Robert Chambers, The Book of Days, 2 vols. (London and Edinburgh, n.d. [18634]), vol. 1, Creslow Pastures. A Ghost Story; John H. Ingram, The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain, 4th edn (London, 1888); Revd W. Hastings Kelke, Creslow Pastures, Records of Buckinghamshire, vol. 1 (Aylesbury, 1858); Murrays Handbook for Travellers in Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire (London, 1860). Eton George Sinclair, Satans Invisible World Discovered (Edinburgh, 1789), Relation 8. Gibraltar H[orace] Harman, Sketches of the Bucks Countryside (London, 1934); Revd Frederick George Lee, Glimpses in the Twilight (Edinburgh and London, 1885); [Readers Digest,] Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain.Middle Claydon Maurice Ashley, The English Civil War (London, 1974; pa. edn, 1980); Antony D. Hippisley Coxe, Haunted Britain (London, 1973; pa. edn, 1975); A Great Wonder in Heaven: shewing The late Apparitions and prodigious noyses of War and Battels, seen on Edge-Hill (London, 1642); Murrays Handbook for Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire; Lord Nugent, Some Memorials of John Hamden, 2 vols. (London, 1832), vol. 2; Frances Parthenope Verney, Memoirs of the Verney Family , 4 vols. (London, 1892), vol. 2; Peter Verney, The Standard Bearer: The Story of Sir Edmund Verney (London, [1963]); C. V. Wedgwood, The Kings War 16411647 (London, 1958; pa. edn, 1966; 6th imp., 1973). West Drayton Lee, Glimpses in the TwilightWoughton-on-the-Green Harman, Sketches of the Bucks Countryside; Christina Hole,