Ghosthunter Walks in Sussex

Ghosthunter Walks in Sussex combines walking routes with reports of ghosts, legends and unsettling traditions attached to places across the county. The routes lead through landscapes where local history and supernatural storytelling overlap, including Ardingly Reservoir, the villages around it, Chanctonbury Ring and Alfriston.

Accounts associated with the walks include a grey lady at Alfriston’s Smugglers Inn, a blue-clad figure at Deans Place Hotel and a spectral white dog said to search White Way for its murdered master. Matthews presents these stories alongside the places where they are told, creating a book concerned as much with Sussex’s lanes, villages and landmarks as with the apparitions connected to them.