Ghostly Shropshire: Car Trails

Ghostly Shropshire: Car Trails gathers reported hauntings and local ghost lore from across the county, arranging them around journeys by road. Christine Lawrie’s title presents Shropshire not simply as a landscape to cross, but as a place where stories have become attached to particular roads, settlements and landmarks.

The material includes traditions such as phantom funerals, white ladies and other county legends, treating them as tales and reported encounters rather than established fact. Its car-trail format connects the folklore with the places said to inspire it, offering a route-based way to consider Shropshire’s haunted history and the persistence of supernatural stories in the English countryside.