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Lichfield Ghost Walk

Name: Lichfield Ghost Walk
Address: Lichfield, WS13, GB
Telephone: +447985625975
Price range: £
Rating: 5

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Join me on a ghoulish gander around Lichfield! Appropriate for all ages, good spooky fun.
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10/02/2024

Thanks folks! It's been a marvelously macabre wintertime, and now I'm hanging up my hat and cloak until September. Stay spooky Lichfield, and watch those shadows closely...

25/01/2024

Tickets for the 10th February tour are now sold out! Thank you everyone for your enthusiasm, especially a this less seasonal time of year. Stay spooky Lichfield! 👻❤️

21/01/2024

Fancy a Valentine's date with a difference? ❤️ Join a spooky jaunt through the city streets and explore Lichfield's fascinating past, packed with creepy characters and macabre mishaps. The ghosts can't wait to meet you...👻❤️

Walk is approximately 1 hour and 1.5 miles
Wheelchair accessible
£7 per person
Tickets are limited, so message me directly or email [email protected] to book 👻👻❤️

14/11/2023

The next spooky outing will be on 25th November. Join a haunted jaunt through the ghoulish city streets and explore Lichfield's macabre past, packed with creepy characters and horrible happenings. The ghosts can't wait to meet you... 👻

Walk is approximately 1 hour and 1.5 miles
Wheelchair accessible
£7 per person
Tickets are limited, so message me directly or email [email protected] to book 👻👻

31/10/2023

Happy Halloween! 👻🎃🍁

28/10/2023

The October tours were a great success, thank you to everyone who joined me on a haunted jaunt (especially this evening's crowd, who waded through some rotten weather with me!)

I have had a blast with Lichfield spooks and ghouls, and I will be releasing the November dates soon! Keep your eyes peeled, these things seem to book up fast. 👻👻👀

Have a great Halloween everyone!

Photo credit: on Instagram

10/10/2023

🎃🎃 UPDATE🎃🎃
Both ghost walk dates for October have sold out! 😮

I am astonished and delighted by Lichfield's appetite for the macabre, thank you everyone for your enthusiasm! I will be releasing dates for November soon: have a great October everyone. 👻🥰

09/10/2023

Incredibly, the 22nd October ghost walk has already sold out!

The next haunted jaunt will be on 28th September. To book, email me at [email protected] or message me directly.

Hope to see you there! 👻👻👻

09/10/2023

A gorgeous wander on the moors of Cannock Chase, followed by a less tranquil race back to my car when I realised how quickly the sun was setting!

The forests of the Chase are practically packed with paranormal spooks and cryptids. The list is said to include (but is not limited to):
- black eyed children that lure you into the underbrush
- a mysterious pig man
- a large black puma
- ghost hitch hikers
- ghost WWII soldiers
- ghost miners
- ghost pirates (??)
- grey figures that flit between the trees
- UFO sightings
- werewolves

Regrettably I met none of these things, but I did get back to my car OK! Huzzah.

08/10/2023

Wow! Thank you so much to everyone who booked: the ghost walk on the 22nd of October has sold out! It's amazing that the tickets have sold out after one day of posting, Lichfield is getting into the spooky spirit. There are still tickets available for the 28th of October!

08/10/2023

Spaces are booking up quickly for the 22nd, so I have added a second ghost tour date on the 28th of October!

Join a haunted jaunt through the ghoulish city streets and explore Lichfield's macabre past, packed with creepy characters and horrible happenings. The ghosts can't wait to meet you... 👻
Walk is approximately 1 hour and 1.5 miles
Wheelchair accessible
£7 per person
Tickets are limited, so message me directly or email [email protected] to book 👻👻

06/10/2023

Lichfield Ghost Walks are back! Join a haunted jaunt through the ghoulish city streets and explore Lichfield's macabre past, packed with creepy characters and horrible happenings. The ghosts can't wait to meet you... 👻

Walk is approximately 1 hour and 1.5 miles
Wheelchair accessible
£7 per person
Tickets are limited, so message me directly or email [email protected] to book 👻👻

06/10/2023

Spooky season is upon us! I will be relaunching Lichfield Ghost Walks with a tour on the 22nd of October. Join me on a haunted jaunt through the ghoulish city streets, and learn a little more about Lichfield's macabre past.

Walk approx. 1 hour, 1.5 miles.
Wheelchair accessible
£7 per person
Limited tickets, book soon to avoid disappointment! 👻🍁🎃

12/02/2023

I've had a frightfully good time running ghost tours in Lichfield, thank you to all who came along on my ghoulish wanderings! I'm hanging up my cape and top hat for the season, but hope to resurrect the tours in October.

Stay spooky Lichfield! ❤️👻

11/02/2023

Attention all ghost fans and ghouls! My final ghost tour of the season will take place tomorrow night, at 7:30pm. Tickets are still available: message me via Instagram or email [email protected]. 👻👻👻

26/11/2022

A delightful evening of ghosts and ghouls! Thank you everyone who came along last night, I had a grand old time and I hope you did too. Stay spooky Lichfield, I will be posting a December date soon...

Photo credit: Heather O'Sullivan ❤️

22/11/2022

You may have heard about the ghostly Roman legion at the toll road junction, but what about the phantom army on Gaia Lane?

The sound of a hundred marching footsteps, all stomping in unison, has been reported on this quiet country lane. People who hear it are apparently gripped with a sudden, almost paranormal, fear. 400 years ago, Cavalier soldiers marched this way to mount a seige on the cathedral... and we all know how that one worked out. 😬

21/11/2022

Lichfield Cathedral is populated by an intricately carved heavenly host... but why are so many of these angelic faces damaged?

Come along on a ghost walk this Friday to find out. And the next time you find yourself alone in the cathedral, surrounded by angels... listen closely.

21/11/2022

Do you know the legend of St Chad's Well? This innocuous little landmark is far more than meets the eye 👀

John Leland, a 16th century historian, described the Well as a pure natural spring "where is seen a stone on the bottom of it, on which, some saye, St Chadd was wont naked to stand in the water and praye". The well became the saint's oratory and an international destination for pilgrims, journeying to hear St Chad speak and see the miraculous waters. The well water is apparently filled with natural minerals and 'milky in colour'... nonetheless, I decided just to sit next to it rather than embrace the St Chad experience.

There was also a longstanding tradition to 'dress the well' each Ascension Day, by decorating it with green boughs and flowers and singing/dancing around it. I would love to see this one revived! 💃

20/11/2022

Thank you to everyone who came along on the ghost tour this evening! I love to share ghoulish tales of misery and macabre in good company. ❤️👻

20/11/2022

A beautiful day for wandering a graveyard and reading the names of previous Lichfieldians.

In St Chad's graveyard I found William Rowley: a brief search tells me that whilst he was a surgeon at the time of his death, 6 years prior he owned an apothecary in the city. An impressive career trajectory! His son, Thomas, was also a surgeon, and went on to own the Lichfield lunatic asylum in 1817. Always nice to follow in your father's footsteps I suppose...

19/11/2022

In 300AD, the Roman Emperor Diocletian ordered the ex*****on of 1000 Christians. These poor souls were put to death north of the city, in an area now called Christian Fields.

Might this grim history linger in the city's name? In his famous dictionary, Samuel Johnson defined 'lich' as a Saxon word for carcass, and even mentioned his beloved birthplace: "Lichfield, the field of the dead, a city in Staffordshire, so named from martyred christians". Given the city's ghoulish history, it would make a lot of sense for this to be 'the field of corpses'...

(more likely 'lich' is derived from Letocetum, the name of a Roman village nearby meaning 'grey wood' but shhhhh.)

18/11/2022

Glorious sunset over Minster Pool during a brief (brief) pause in the rain. No ghostly details here, not a one. Nope.
.. I guess I could talk about the eyewitness accounts of the Pool running red with the blood of ambushed soldiers, but let's just focus on the pretty pink sky, we deserve this. ☺️🌇🌺

18/11/2022

With nights growing chillier, darker and all round spookier, why not join one last jaunt of Lichfield's spookiest streets?

A lighthearted, history flavoured ghost walk, perfect for people of all ages who enjoy the macabre. From Civil War soldiers to eerie children, headless gunmen to mysterious dark eyed women, Lichfield is teeming with spooks. They're excited to meet you! 👻

Ticket price is £7 per person.
Tour is approximately one hour in duration and involves walking approximately one mile.
Please message for booking information and further details!
There are still a couple of tickets left for the 20th November tour, book now to avoid disappointment.

13/11/2022

Did you know that the Charles II statue once stood on the Cathedral roof, above the rows of saints and kings? The statue oversaw the rebuilding after the Close's Civil War battering, which Charles II funded to recognise the city's royalist leanings.

His father had actually stayed at the city three times, before he lost his head... Charles I is one of the UK's most-spotted ghosts, frequenting country houses, castles, pubs, university colleges etc. Never been spotted in Lichfield though, which frankly seems a bit rude.

10/11/2022

Today the space between Oxfam and Acorns on Market Street stands empty, but in a former life it was a dry cleaners. Staff and customers alike reported encounters with a mischievous poltergeist, which they affectionately named Benjie. The spooky scamp would play with paperwork and gleefully unroll the toilet paper in the ladies' bathroom. Multiple people saw hanging shirt sleeves move by themselves, waving as if possessed by an invisible limb...

I don't know what the future of this unit will bring, but I hope someone moves in soon. Benjie is lonely.

09/11/2022

One last glimpse of autumnal beauty on the Minster Pool...

Did you know that the Minster Pool used to be a moat? Once upon a time a deep man-made ditch surrounded the cathedral, which was heavily fortified with tall castle walls from the 12th century onwards. The other three sides of the ditch were likely dry, but we did have a portcullis and, most excitingly, a drawbridge on the Pool! Who thinks we should bring that one back?

Of course, this fortification would be the cathedral's downfall come the Civil War...

For more details and a helpful map, check out https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/staffs/vol14/pp57-67

08/11/2022

So far as I know, Langton House is the only haunted Lichfield location that has required an exorcism. Something terrifying lurks behind that door.

Come on a walk to hear more about the horrors of Langton House. This is a creepy one...

07/11/2022

Whilst Lichfield Cathedral definitely steals the show, the Close deserves a mention. The cluster of buildings surrounding the cathedral date back to medieval times, with a storied history including dungeons, cannonfire and choir boys.

One tenant believes that this history lingers on, but more pleasantly than some other spots in town. She reports a strong smell of lavendar perfume, a warm 'comforting' presence and the unexplained smell of home cooking. She says the ghostly aroma is one of two things: 'a good wholesome stew' or a sweet pudding. The chef does not seem to grasp the time of day though: these spectral smells are usually strongest in the early hours of the morning.

There are also a lot of stories about ghost cats, but I'll get back to you on that one...

06/11/2022

The King's Head, by my count, has seen 30 monarchs crowned in its time, starting with Henry IV (not including Charles III, since we are still pre-coronation). Besides its impressive King Count, this is also the birthplace of the Staffordshire Regiment: a staggering amount of history is contained within these walls.

Not all of this history is pleasant. Come along on a tour to hear about the creepy host of ghostly characters which call this pub home, ranging from the heartwrenching to... hilarious?

There are still a few tickets left for the 20th November walk, book now to avoid disappointment!

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