Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project
A project exploring the origins, legacies, connections and futures of folk tales in Lincolnshire, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2/2024-7/2025) and hosted at Nottingham Trent University.
Our books:
Rory Waterman, Devils in the Details: On Location with Folk Tales in England’s Forgotten County (Five Leaves, 2026), exploring folk tales across Lincolnshire, and the places associated with them.
Anna Milon and Rory Waterman (eds), Lincolnshire Folk Tales Reimagined (Five Leaves, 2025), featuring fourteen of Lincolnshire’s finest writers reimagining local folk tales.
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Rory Waterman I’m not a ‘guest writer’, I’ll confess: I was the project lead on the Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project during its funded period, and now keep the website going on my own. But please excuse the indulgence. My new book, Devils in the Details: On Location with Folk Tales in…
● Latest Articles
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Doddington Hall Ghosts
One of Doddington’s several reported ghosts is that of a young woman is said to jump from the roof of this Jacobean stately home (which…
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Nocton Hall Ghosts
Nocton Hall (a ruin since it burned down in mysterious circumstances in 2004) is a nineteenth-century country house built on the site of a fifteenth-century…
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The Metheringham Lass
A variant of the ‘phantom hitchhiker’ contemporary legend, common in twentieth-century and contemporary folklore concerning ghosts. The ghost of a young woman is said to…
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The Centurion & the Witch
According to this tale, a Centurion was marching his men along the Roman Ermine Street, towards what we call Newport Arch, the north gate of…
● About the project
‘Lincolnshire Folk Tales: Origins, Legacies, Connections, Futures’ is a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/Y003225/1), and is led by Dr Rory Waterman and the Research Fellow Dr Anna Milon in the School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham Trent University. The project explores the origins, legacies, intertextual and social connections and futures of Lincolnshire folk tales (LFTs), and is intended to facilitate wider engagement with this heritage from writers, the general public, and scholars.
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