Haunted Tunbridge Wells

Haunted Tunbridge Wells gathers reported ghost stories from Royal Tunbridge Wells and the surrounding Kent villages, placing local folklore alongside the area’s long history. Neil Arnold covers locations including The Pantiles, Groombridge, Sissinghurst, Southborough, Pembury and Rusthall, with accounts drawn from witnesses, local investigations and published sources.

The Pantiles features prominently, with traditions claiming that at least twenty ghosts have been seen there. Other reports concern a hanged man in Coach and Horses Passage, the apparition of Mary Jenning, a woman associated with Friends Passage, phantom coaches and horses, spectral riders, ghostly hounds and haunted houses, roads, woods and castles. A bibliography records the book’s research sources.