Author: Daniel Codd
Mysterious Northamptonshire
Mysterious Northamptonshire is the next volume in the Breedon books Mysterious Counties series joining best-selling titles Mysterious Cornwall and Mysterious Lincolnshire.
Exhaustively researched by the author and fully illustrated throughout, this book is designed to show the reader a Northamptonshire they never knew existed - a county full of supernatural secrets and strange lore.
From Oundle to Brackley, and Daventry to Wellingborough, the author has unearthed hundreds of strange tales actross the county to capture the imagination and chill the blood - all of which are said to be true.
Read about bizarre legends such as the Drifting Man of Wansford, and explore the county’s unique architectural curiosities like Rushton Triangular Lodge and Lyveden New Bield. Learn about the horrific instances of witchcraft in 17th and 18th century Northamptonshire and numerous fatal curses as well as many notorious hauntings.
Did an executed murderer return as a ghost to confess his crime to a Northampton clergyman? Was a petrified crocodile really unearthed beside human bones in Bugbrooke? And what are the mysterious unidentified objects witnessed in the skies above Northampton itself?
Mysterious Northampshire will provide a chilling read and change the way you look at the county!
