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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A house of brick built which may have been built over the base of a medieval tower in Lichfield’s Cathedral Close

LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I had a conversation with a friend last week about why we are rubbish at celebrating what we are good at. It was a timely chat as my Lichfield Lore blog has just tipped over into 100,000 all time visitors with 50,000 this year alone.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There are several stones around land that once belonged to the Worthington family of Maple Hayes. Most mark the planting of a woodland but are mistaken for gravestones. This one however, found by our local farmer, does actually appear to commemorate a death. Who, or most likely, what was Cecil?

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m so glad the latest artwork in Lichfield depicts two Georgian gents. We definitely don’t do enough to celebrate that demographic here.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Dyott crest & chapel at St Mary’s where generations of the famous Lichfield family lie. The death of a Dyott was marked by a torchlit procession accompanied by servants from their Freeford estate. No family members were present for fear of being the next to follow to the grave. #spookysunday

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I’ve visited Farewell for many years but today was the first time I noticed this cross carved into the 14th chancel. Until 1527 a priory of nuns lived here alongside a spring, around three miles to the north of Lichfield.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I was thinking about doing a walk today and found this on Googlemaps which I’m taking as a sign I should definitely go 💚

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

When you wait for years to see a ghost in Lichfield and then three come along at once

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The sun must have been hitting the south door of Lichfield Cathedral just right as I saw another Marian mark today

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My friend is on holiday in Dorset and just sent me a photo of a place called ‘Hangman’s Cottage’. She knows me so well.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Now there’s a hint of autumn in the air, are you brave enough to explore the remains of Bellamour Hall with me? lichfieldlore.co.uk/2026/08/22/t...

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Eventually, Seaman WS Cowan regained consciousness & the cross-bred collie was given a silver collar & shield. The heroic hound’s name was Lassie so was this Dorset dog was the inspiration behind its famous Hollywood namesake?

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

On New Years Day 1915, HMS Formidable was struck by a torpedo. The dead were laid out in the cellar of the Pilot Boat Inn & the landlord’s dog came & sat by one of the bodies, licking its face.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I do not count the hours unless they are bright

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Wrote a blog post about Muckley Corner and how it might have got that strange name. It’s a place that’s been driving me crazy for a loooong time. Link here lichfieldlore.co.uk/2026/07/28/m...

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Well I was going to go and sit by the brook but this bunch of local youths beat me to it

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Until the 1970s, a milestone stood at the junction but I’ve heard it was snaffled for use in a nearby stile. To be fair, it wouldn’t be the first bit of Roman stone to be recycled around here.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

A track in a field that takes you back in time to the Roman Empire. This is a part of Watling Street, just outside the settlement of Letocetum, and and somewhere along this short stretch was the junction with Ryknield Street.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Last week a friend and I spotted this sort of statue in an otherwise empty shop. Today, it’s broken free and heading out the door. Luckily, it’s not looking at me.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Finally explored the Greenway created along the old Lichfield to Walsall railway route. Started at Sandfields, hopped off at Hammerwich so didn’t quite make it to the end of the line.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The War Stone in Birmingham is believed to have been a boundary or hoar stone, giving its corrupted name to the street it now sits on. Originally the road was called ‘Deadman’s Lane’ which seems spookily prescient given a cemetery was consecrated here in 1848.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The Reservoir Part II of my ghost story inspired by Staffordshire folklore Read here >> lichfieldlore.co.uk/2026/05/12/t...

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Part I of a new ghost story I wrote. Part fact, part folklore, part my fanciful imagination. Read here >> lichfieldlore.co.uk/2026/05/10/t...

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Just started another attempt at spooky semi-fiction set in Staffordshire. It’s about Kitty Fisher, and the submerged bridge at Blithfield Reservoir which bears her name. Doing some research and turns out a skull was found on the banks of the water in 1991. Sometimes stories just write themselves…

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

My latest LL post on a lost country house in the Midlands and its infamous curse. Read here >> lichfieldlore.co.uk/2026/05/05/c...

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The Old Church Tower at Shenstone is all that survives of a medieval church built on a Saxon, and possible earlier, site. It was once a ruin, romantic but at real risk of collapse, until a group of locals formed a group to save it. It’s one of my favourite places in Staffordshire.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Shoe outlines carved into the lead of the old tower at Shenstone. Were these just a way to say, ‘I was here’? or something more symbolic?

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Work to transform the old library building into apartments has apparently revealed human remains. I assume this means the cemetery of the Franciscan Friary over the road occupied an area larger than I had thought. Or there’s been a murder. I’ll update on the body in the library when I know more…

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Lush with wild garlic and primroses, the last of the daffs and some very keen bluebells, this is the churchyard of St Michael’s on Greenhill, Lichfield which is very much living up to its name

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I have found the best fence in Lichfield, if not Staffordshire.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Cross in Hand Lane, Lichfield is the old road to Stafford. A holloway haunted by pilgrims heading for the cathedral and highwaymen headed for the gallows.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The brilliant Shenstone History Group have sent me photos of a child’s shoe found up the chimney of one of the village’s oldest cottages. Anyone out there able to date it?

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Does anyone else’s local litter picking group find folk horror-esque art installations whilst out doing their good deeds or is it just a Lichfield thing?

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I do love a day out in Birmingham

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

St Chad’s, Lichfield glowing beneath a rainbow in the sunshine and showers. Seems almost symbolic.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

It is! Plus our city seal features three dismembered kings. The last one is on the railway bridge at the City Station to welcome everyone to the Field of the Dead

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Love a mystery which sounds like it could be the start of an antiquarian ghost story. Sometime ago a woman arrived at Middleton Hall and handed over this medieval bell. She said it belonged to the house and so she was returning it before leaving without further explanation.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Written about the time we accidentally ended up in Acton Trussell and found that a Roman villa had been accidentally discovered beneath the local church. lichfieldlore.co.uk/2026/01/02/t...

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

The Ruins at Shugborough where a Druid sits above a 250 year old folly, built by an Earl of Lichfield from the remains of the palace of the Bishops of Lichfield.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Something else which endures is the story that this crossing at the confluence of the Rivers Trent and Sow was constructed by Robert Devereux for Elizabeth I when she was staying with him for the week at Chartley. Shame he burned his bridges with her in the end.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Fourteen of the original forty arches of the Essex Bridge at Shugborough survive making it one of the longest in the land.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

According to the Staffordshire Advertiser, William Slater aged 28 married Martha Sollom aged 64 here at Baswich church in April 1826, after ‘a long and tedious courtship’. How romantic 💕

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Afternoon tea at Weston Hall is my annual Christmas treat. Lovely festive food with a side serving of supernatural.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Found the site of the Stafford Gallows. Naming the street ‘Freeman Road’ seems like a cruel irony.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Trying to virtually locate the site of the Stafford gallows pre-gaol. So far I’ve found this.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Wishing you a magical Winter Solstice, with two deer who have been running across the ancient stonework at All Saints, Alrewas for centuries.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Reasons not to go paragliding. An occasional series.

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