Haunted Places of Nottinghamshire

Haunted Places of Nottinghamshire gathers reported ghost stories from across the county, linking apparitions and unsettling incidents to roads, hotels, castles and historic buildings. The accounts range from the tale of Bessie Sheppard, said to haunt the A60 at Harlow Wood near Mansfield, to the reported figure of King Charles I at Southwell’s Saracen’s Head Hotel.

Other stories concern Queen Isobel at Nottingham Castle, where tradition says she calls for Mortimer, and a disturbing encounter with ghostly hands at Worksop’s Lion Hotel. With cases associated with Nottingham, Mansfield, East Retford, Newark and other parts of Nottinghamshire, Rupert Matthews presents local haunting traditions as a county-wide collection of reported supernatural encounters.