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The Irby Boggle
On 1 November 1455, All Saints’ Day, betrothed couple Neville Randall and Rosamund Guy allegedly met in this beauty spot, and Rosamund was murdered by her fiancé. Both went missing, and stories arose that he had murdered her and fled.
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Fiddler Fynes
This legend concerns a wise man known as Fiddler Fynes. A farmer is robbed, and approaches the wiseman asking for help to find the robber. The wiseman tells the farmer to look into a mirror, and he will see the thief’s face…
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Sam’l’s Ghost
A young man called Samuel has burned to death, but his spirit rises, and hears a voice tell him to enter the earth, so a big worm can eat him and he can rest in peace. He does so, somehow, and finds himself in a stinking hole where a great worm is coiled on a…
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Coat o’ Clay
A lad goes to see a wise woman to get advice: his folks say he is a fool, and he wants to be wise, so he asks her what he should do. She tells him he will be a fool all his days until he finds a coat of clay…
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The Shepherd of Wansford Bridge
According to the tale, a local magician warns Barnaby, a shepherd who treats him kindly, that a flood is imminent, and that he should take his best sheep to the top of the church tower. He does so, and tolls the bell, which saves some of the villagers
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The Excise Officer
During late-nineteenth-century renovations, a male skeleton was discovered bricked into a cavity, alongside buttons bearing the Royal Insignia (or, according to some reports, wearing a full excise officer’s uniform). This has led to tales presupposing his (probable) grizzly demise, and reports of ghostly happenings.
Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project 