LichfieldLore
@lichfieldlore.bsky.social
Lover of curiosities, legends & languages. Searching for stories in Staffordshire & beyond. The weird one from @lichdiscovered. Website: lichfieldlore.co.uk
An outstanding talk for our Lichfield Discovered group from author & historian @nathenamin.bsky.social to a packed audience at The Old Grammar School last night. We especially loved hearing how Lichfield may have played its part in the rise of Henry Tudor.
November 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
An outstanding talk for our Lichfield Discovered group from author & historian @nathenamin.bsky.social to a packed audience at The Old Grammar School last night. We especially loved hearing how Lichfield may have played its part in the rise of Henry Tudor.
Every year this comes up in my memories and I share it in the hope someone will be able to solve the mystery of the chalice carved into the church tower at Gnosall 🍷
November 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Every year this comes up in my memories and I share it in the hope someone will be able to solve the mystery of the chalice carved into the church tower at Gnosall 🍷
Lichfield looked very twinkly tonight even before the light switch-on
November 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Lichfield looked very twinkly tonight even before the light switch-on
Some Staffordshire folklore from the Leek area, as recorded by a vicar who was exiled there in 1940 lichfieldlore.co.uk/2025/11/23/t...
The Valley of Phantoms
I’m reading the memoirs of a man named William Purcell Witcutt. Like me he had connections to both Birmingham and Staffordshire, and was fascinated by folklore. Unlike me, he was an protestan…
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November 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Some Staffordshire folklore from the Leek area, as recorded by a vicar who was exiled there in 1940 lichfieldlore.co.uk/2025/11/23/t...
Just reading a book with some Staffordshire ghost stories & superstitions in it.
These include a Headless Horseman or, as the people of Leek called it, ‘a man on an ‘oss without yed on, an awful gory sight’.
These include a Headless Horseman or, as the people of Leek called it, ‘a man on an ‘oss without yed on, an awful gory sight’.
November 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Just reading a book with some Staffordshire ghost stories & superstitions in it.
These include a Headless Horseman or, as the people of Leek called it, ‘a man on an ‘oss without yed on, an awful gory sight’.
These include a Headless Horseman or, as the people of Leek called it, ‘a man on an ‘oss without yed on, an awful gory sight’.
Did a murder mystery and turned out the culprit was me, in the bathroom with a poisoned pin badge.
Rather appropriate then that my brother has brought me a prison break experience at Shrewsbury Gaol for my birthday present.
Rather appropriate then that my brother has brought me a prison break experience at Shrewsbury Gaol for my birthday present.
November 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Did a murder mystery and turned out the culprit was me, in the bathroom with a poisoned pin badge.
Rather appropriate then that my brother has brought me a prison break experience at Shrewsbury Gaol for my birthday present.
Rather appropriate then that my brother has brought me a prison break experience at Shrewsbury Gaol for my birthday present.
Three strange deaths linked to the same field in Staffordshire. Grass that doesn’t grow where a deadman’s feet rested. Will o’the wisps flickering.
Full story via my post ‘And Then Another’ here >> lichfieldlore.co.uk/2025/11/22/a...
Any explanations welcome, be they supernatural or scientific.
Full story via my post ‘And Then Another’ here >> lichfieldlore.co.uk/2025/11/22/a...
Any explanations welcome, be they supernatural or scientific.
And Then Another
Three men, three deaths all seemingly linked. Somewhere in the story there must be a clue to tell us whether it was coincidence or if something creepier was at play here. Engraving. An Ignis Fatuus…
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November 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Three strange deaths linked to the same field in Staffordshire. Grass that doesn’t grow where a deadman’s feet rested. Will o’the wisps flickering.
Full story via my post ‘And Then Another’ here >> lichfieldlore.co.uk/2025/11/22/a...
Any explanations welcome, be they supernatural or scientific.
Full story via my post ‘And Then Another’ here >> lichfieldlore.co.uk/2025/11/22/a...
Any explanations welcome, be they supernatural or scientific.
Traditionally, Lichfield has been thought of as a Georgian city but it has so many more layers than that. Today I’ve been out on the trail of the Tudors, looking for the traces they left behind in Lichfield
November 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Traditionally, Lichfield has been thought of as a Georgian city but it has so many more layers than that. Today I’ve been out on the trail of the Tudors, looking for the traces they left behind in Lichfield
Historic England release their Heritage At Risk Register every November. Sad to see Hamstall Hall, with its Tudor watchtower and Jacobean pepper pot gateway, still sat on it with seemingly no solution to save it from further ruin.
November 16, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Historic England release their Heritage At Risk Register every November. Sad to see Hamstall Hall, with its Tudor watchtower and Jacobean pepper pot gateway, still sat on it with seemingly no solution to save it from further ruin.
Had such a lovely time at Bistro 1709 last night.
I know most people take a photo of their food but, me being me, I took one of the staircase & beams. Can definitely recommend a meal here in what may be one of Lichfield’s most ancient buildings.
Now I just need to find out if it has any ghosts…
I know most people take a photo of their food but, me being me, I took one of the staircase & beams. Can definitely recommend a meal here in what may be one of Lichfield’s most ancient buildings.
Now I just need to find out if it has any ghosts…
November 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Had such a lovely time at Bistro 1709 last night.
I know most people take a photo of their food but, me being me, I took one of the staircase & beams. Can definitely recommend a meal here in what may be one of Lichfield’s most ancient buildings.
Now I just need to find out if it has any ghosts…
I know most people take a photo of their food but, me being me, I took one of the staircase & beams. Can definitely recommend a meal here in what may be one of Lichfield’s most ancient buildings.
Now I just need to find out if it has any ghosts…
I love the backside of Lichfield. This alleyway is nowhere near as ancient as it looks but it still feels like you might meet a past resident of the city wandering around there
November 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I love the backside of Lichfield. This alleyway is nowhere near as ancient as it looks but it still feels like you might meet a past resident of the city wandering around there
Took my Mum for afternoon tea and found a pet cemetery
October 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Took my Mum for afternoon tea and found a pet cemetery
Trying to work out which house on Watling Street in the village of Wall it was where someone found a whetstone and a wooden soled shoe in a bread oven.
October 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Trying to work out which house on Watling Street in the village of Wall it was where someone found a whetstone and a wooden soled shoe in a bread oven.
Who needs pumpkins for Halloween when you’ve got the Pun Kings of Farnham?
October 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Who needs pumpkins for Halloween when you’ve got the Pun Kings of Farnham?
Good to see West Horsley Place for the Ghosts connection but it’s the horrible history involving Sir Walter Raleigh’s head that’s really grabbed my interest.
October 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Good to see West Horsley Place for the Ghosts connection but it’s the horrible history involving Sir Walter Raleigh’s head that’s really grabbed my interest.
As it wasn’t a full moon, I risked popping in for a pint at The Slaughtered Lamb.
October 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
As it wasn’t a full moon, I risked popping in for a pint at The Slaughtered Lamb.
Open morning with my @lichdiscovered.bsky.social mates at The Old Grammar School. Much hilarity when we realised my outfit looked like I’d been rummaging in our Ice Age dressing up box and also, when I managed to lock myself and a group of visitors into a room I’d just told them was haunted.
October 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Open morning with my @lichdiscovered.bsky.social mates at The Old Grammar School. Much hilarity when we realised my outfit looked like I’d been rummaging in our Ice Age dressing up box and also, when I managed to lock myself and a group of visitors into a room I’d just told them was haunted.
To get to last night’s murder mystery in mid-Staffordshire we had to drive through Moddershall Oaks, where a spectral man rides a white horse at a spot the Victorians nicknamed ‘The Frightenings’.
October 26, 2025 at 7:34 AM
To get to last night’s murder mystery in mid-Staffordshire we had to drive through Moddershall Oaks, where a spectral man rides a white horse at a spot the Victorians nicknamed ‘The Frightenings’.
The fifteenth century font at St Chads, Lichfield. Something seems to be scratched into one of its shields. A ragged staff perhaps or some sort of ancient script?
October 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The fifteenth century font at St Chads, Lichfield. Something seems to be scratched into one of its shields. A ragged staff perhaps or some sort of ancient script?
Remains of a medieval building on the banks of Minster Pool, Lichfield.
Its exact purpose is a bit of a mystery and that chap carved into stone is keeping schtum about who, or what, he’s peering at through the arch.
Its exact purpose is a bit of a mystery and that chap carved into stone is keeping schtum about who, or what, he’s peering at through the arch.
October 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Remains of a medieval building on the banks of Minster Pool, Lichfield.
Its exact purpose is a bit of a mystery and that chap carved into stone is keeping schtum about who, or what, he’s peering at through the arch.
Its exact purpose is a bit of a mystery and that chap carved into stone is keeping schtum about who, or what, he’s peering at through the arch.
At St James, Acton Trussell, Staffordshire, volunteers seeking to understand more about its medieval past and why the church was built on a site isolated from the rest of the village, actually ended up discovering a Romano-British Villa beneath the churchyard.
August 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
At St James, Acton Trussell, Staffordshire, volunteers seeking to understand more about its medieval past and why the church was built on a site isolated from the rest of the village, actually ended up discovering a Romano-British Villa beneath the churchyard.
The building of new estates on the outskirts of Lichfield has revealed several Iron Age sites, a period conspicuously absent from the historical record until these recent developments.
July 23, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The building of new estates on the outskirts of Lichfield has revealed several Iron Age sites, a period conspicuously absent from the historical record until these recent developments.
Met up with my old mate Mark in Tamworth and he took me into the crypt at St Editha's to show me what seems to be an ancient stone coffin lid built into the ceiling ☠️
July 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Met up with my old mate Mark in Tamworth and he took me into the crypt at St Editha's to show me what seems to be an ancient stone coffin lid built into the ceiling ☠️
A soggy Saturday in Tamworth at the start of an archaeology dig at the site of a medieval deanery alongside St Editha's Church.
The team uncovered part of its ancient wall and today they're digging a ditch to delve further into the deanery's history.
The team uncovered part of its ancient wall and today they're digging a ditch to delve further into the deanery's history.
July 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A soggy Saturday in Tamworth at the start of an archaeology dig at the site of a medieval deanery alongside St Editha's Church.
The team uncovered part of its ancient wall and today they're digging a ditch to delve further into the deanery's history.
The team uncovered part of its ancient wall and today they're digging a ditch to delve further into the deanery's history.
I've finally got around to writing up what I found out about the wishing stones of Pye Green and Walsall on my Lichfield Lore blog 🤞
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The Wishing Stones
It took me a while to find the wishing stone at Pye Green and it’s taken me even longer to write up what I found about the tale behind it on here. This story appeared in an old newspaper, tol…
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July 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I've finally got around to writing up what I found out about the wishing stones of Pye Green and Walsall on my Lichfield Lore blog 🤞
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