Here be Grimstones

Introduction to ‘Here be Grimstones’ (Settlements haunted by a ghost)

Here we look at a number of towns whose names can be traced back to Saxon times as haunted by ghosts.

Here be Grimstons

Ghosts of the hill cliff, pit hole wood and mound,

Since old Saxon times, were to the land bound.

Illusion or real, manifestations,

Do terrors survive, at these locations?

Grimston church Norfolk, lost in Doomsday search,

Roman villa bricks, used in ghost town church.

How did it manage, its image to hide?

Phantom Saxon church, on the other side.

Grimston Leicestershire, with ghost tunnel long,

Doomsday book village, timber station gone.

Now just a test track, for ghost trains to run,

In this little town, the ghosts they have won.

Grimston was levelled, since eight hundred years,

Just a ghostly tor, to hold back the tears.

Hill over Sherwood, is solemnly ploughed,

Neighbouring Wellow, its Maypole still proud.

Ghoulish North Grimstone, North Yorkshire village,

Cut off in its track, rails they were pillaged.

Old Saxon church gone, only font remains,

The station now house, hears only ghost trains.

Grimston East Yorkshire, now only grows grains,

Farm house moated from, ghost hamlet remains.

Coastal village lost, but mansion it cheers,

One family held, for a thousand years.

Copyright Andrew Rea  Spring 2012