Walks in Mysterious Cheshire and Wirral

Walks in Mysterious Cheshire and Wirral
Author: Tony Bowerman
Publisher: Northern Eye Books Limited
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 0955355702

The best way to explore Cheshire, a landscape steeped in mystery, is on foot. This classic walking book contains fascinating, easy to follow walks exploring the past - from quiet strolls to hill and country rambles, by river, wood and ancient lane. Discover Pete Marsh - the bog man, a gypsy king's grave, lost Roman and medieval roads, and more.

Circular Walks in Wirral

Circular Walks in Wirral
Author: Carl Rogers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2012-04-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781902512211

Features 17 circular leisure walks of varying length, exploring Wirral's finest coast and countryside. This title contains 8 pages of colour photos, black & white photos and maps.

Cheshire Folk Tales

Cheshire Folk Tales
Author: Johnny Gillett
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2011-11-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0752478494

These lively and entertaining folk tales from one of Britain's most ancient counties are vividly retold by local storyteller The Journey Man. Their origins lost in the oral tradition, these thirty stories from Cheshire reflect the wisdom (and eccentricities) of the county and its people.Cheshire has a rich and diverse collection of tales, from the stories of some of Britain’s most famous mythical heroes, to tales of demons, dragons, boggarts and sniddlebogs. These stories, illustrated with twenty-five line drawings, bring alive the landscape of the county’s rolling hills and fertile plains.The Journey Man is a professional storyteller who has been telling stories across the world for over twenty years.

Haunted Wirral

Haunted Wirral
Author: Tom Slemen
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2015-07-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781515169826

The Wirral which Tom Slemen writes about in this fascinating book is a peninsula of ghosts, phantoms, spectres, doppelgangers, premonitions, reincarnations, astral voyages to another world and timeslips. The cases in Haunted Wirral confirm the old adage that truth really is stranger than fiction. Most ghost story books about Wirral include the same old weathered yarns about Mother Redcap's ghost and the spectres of smugglers, but the mysterious peninsula proved to be a stranger place than even Tom Slemen took it to be, with 51 tales weirder than anything found within the books of Stephen King, or Rod Serling's Twilight Zone. This edition includes a lost Wirral tale of Tom's that was recently found by the author concerning the "Thin Man" of Telegraph Road...