Warwickshire Folk Tales

Cath Edwards gathers tales from historic Warwickshire, including Coventry, Rugby, Warwick, Stratford-upon-Avon and Birmingham. The collection brings together stories of Lady Godiva, Dick Turpin, Guy of Warwick and Saint George, alongside accounts of the Rollright Stones, witches, ghosts, doomed lovers and highwaymen.

The darker material includes the Foxcote Feud and other stories shaped by violence, betrayal and reputed supernatural encounters. Coventry legends, Edge Hill tales and the comic traditions of the Ilmington Noodleheads broaden the collection’s range. Edwards presents these inherited accounts in her own storyteller’s versions, retaining the mixture of history, local tradition and imaginative embellishment that has carried them from teller to listener.