LichfieldLore
@lichfieldlore.bsky.social
Lover of curiosities, legends & languages. Searching for stories in Staffordshire & beyond. The weird one from @lichdiscovered. Website: lichfieldlore.co.uk
Traditionally, Lichfield has been thought of as a Georgian city but it has so many more layers than that. Today I’ve been out on the trail of the Tudors, looking for the traces they left behind in Lichfield
November 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Traditionally, Lichfield has been thought of as a Georgian city but it has so many more layers than that. Today I’ve been out on the trail of the Tudors, looking for the traces they left behind in Lichfield
Historic England release their Heritage At Risk Register every November. Sad to see Hamstall Hall, with its Tudor watchtower and Jacobean pepper pot gateway, still sat on it with seemingly no solution to save it from further ruin.
November 16, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Historic England release their Heritage At Risk Register every November. Sad to see Hamstall Hall, with its Tudor watchtower and Jacobean pepper pot gateway, still sat on it with seemingly no solution to save it from further ruin.
Had such a lovely time at Bistro 1709 last night.
I know most people take a photo of their food but, me being me, I took one of the staircase & beams. Can definitely recommend a meal here in what may be one of Lichfield’s most ancient buildings.
Now I just need to find out if it has any ghosts…
I know most people take a photo of their food but, me being me, I took one of the staircase & beams. Can definitely recommend a meal here in what may be one of Lichfield’s most ancient buildings.
Now I just need to find out if it has any ghosts…
November 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Had such a lovely time at Bistro 1709 last night.
I know most people take a photo of their food but, me being me, I took one of the staircase & beams. Can definitely recommend a meal here in what may be one of Lichfield’s most ancient buildings.
Now I just need to find out if it has any ghosts…
I know most people take a photo of their food but, me being me, I took one of the staircase & beams. Can definitely recommend a meal here in what may be one of Lichfield’s most ancient buildings.
Now I just need to find out if it has any ghosts…
I love the backside of Lichfield. This alleyway is nowhere near as ancient as it looks but it still feels like you might meet a past resident of the city wandering around there
November 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I love the backside of Lichfield. This alleyway is nowhere near as ancient as it looks but it still feels like you might meet a past resident of the city wandering around there
Took my Mum for afternoon tea and found a pet cemetery
October 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Took my Mum for afternoon tea and found a pet cemetery
Trying to work out which house on Watling Street in the village of Wall it was where someone found a whetstone and a wooden soled shoe in a bread oven.
October 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Trying to work out which house on Watling Street in the village of Wall it was where someone found a whetstone and a wooden soled shoe in a bread oven.
Who needs pumpkins for Halloween when you’ve got the Pun Kings of Farnham?
October 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Who needs pumpkins for Halloween when you’ve got the Pun Kings of Farnham?
Good to see West Horsley Place for the Ghosts connection but it’s the horrible history involving Sir Walter Raleigh’s head that’s really grabbed my interest.
October 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Good to see West Horsley Place for the Ghosts connection but it’s the horrible history involving Sir Walter Raleigh’s head that’s really grabbed my interest.
As it wasn’t a full moon, I risked popping in for a pint at The Slaughtered Lamb.
October 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
As it wasn’t a full moon, I risked popping in for a pint at The Slaughtered Lamb.
Open morning with my @lichdiscovered.bsky.social mates at The Old Grammar School. Much hilarity when we realised my outfit looked like I’d been rummaging in our Ice Age dressing up box and also, when I managed to lock myself and a group of visitors into a room I’d just told them was haunted.
October 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Open morning with my @lichdiscovered.bsky.social mates at The Old Grammar School. Much hilarity when we realised my outfit looked like I’d been rummaging in our Ice Age dressing up box and also, when I managed to lock myself and a group of visitors into a room I’d just told them was haunted.
To get to last night’s murder mystery in mid-Staffordshire we had to drive through Moddershall Oaks, where a spectral man rides a white horse at a spot the Victorians nicknamed ‘The Frightenings’.
October 26, 2025 at 7:34 AM
To get to last night’s murder mystery in mid-Staffordshire we had to drive through Moddershall Oaks, where a spectral man rides a white horse at a spot the Victorians nicknamed ‘The Frightenings’.
The fifteenth century font at St Chads, Lichfield. Something seems to be scratched into one of its shields. A ragged staff perhaps or some sort of ancient script?
October 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The fifteenth century font at St Chads, Lichfield. Something seems to be scratched into one of its shields. A ragged staff perhaps or some sort of ancient script?
Remains of a medieval building on the banks of Minster Pool, Lichfield.
Its exact purpose is a bit of a mystery and that chap carved into stone is keeping schtum about who, or what, he’s peering at through the arch.
Its exact purpose is a bit of a mystery and that chap carved into stone is keeping schtum about who, or what, he’s peering at through the arch.
October 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Remains of a medieval building on the banks of Minster Pool, Lichfield.
Its exact purpose is a bit of a mystery and that chap carved into stone is keeping schtum about who, or what, he’s peering at through the arch.
Its exact purpose is a bit of a mystery and that chap carved into stone is keeping schtum about who, or what, he’s peering at through the arch.
At St James, Acton Trussell, Staffordshire, volunteers seeking to understand more about its medieval past and why the church was built on a site isolated from the rest of the village, actually ended up discovering a Romano-British Villa beneath the churchyard.
August 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
At St James, Acton Trussell, Staffordshire, volunteers seeking to understand more about its medieval past and why the church was built on a site isolated from the rest of the village, actually ended up discovering a Romano-British Villa beneath the churchyard.
The building of new estates on the outskirts of Lichfield has revealed several Iron Age sites, a period conspicuously absent from the historical record until these recent developments.
July 23, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The building of new estates on the outskirts of Lichfield has revealed several Iron Age sites, a period conspicuously absent from the historical record until these recent developments.
Met up with my old mate Mark in Tamworth and he took me into the crypt at St Editha's to show me what seems to be an ancient stone coffin lid built into the ceiling ☠️
July 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Met up with my old mate Mark in Tamworth and he took me into the crypt at St Editha's to show me what seems to be an ancient stone coffin lid built into the ceiling ☠️
A soggy Saturday in Tamworth at the start of an archaeology dig at the site of a medieval deanery alongside St Editha's Church.
The team uncovered part of its ancient wall and today they're digging a ditch to delve further into the deanery's history.
The team uncovered part of its ancient wall and today they're digging a ditch to delve further into the deanery's history.
July 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A soggy Saturday in Tamworth at the start of an archaeology dig at the site of a medieval deanery alongside St Editha's Church.
The team uncovered part of its ancient wall and today they're digging a ditch to delve further into the deanery's history.
The team uncovered part of its ancient wall and today they're digging a ditch to delve further into the deanery's history.
I've finally got around to writing up what I found out about the wishing stones of Pye Green and Walsall on my Lichfield Lore blog 🤞
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The Wishing Stones
It took me a while to find the wishing stone at Pye Green and it’s taken me even longer to write up what I found about the tale behind it on here. This story appeared in an old newspaper, tol…
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July 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I've finally got around to writing up what I found out about the wishing stones of Pye Green and Walsall on my Lichfield Lore blog 🤞
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There's a wall on the corner of Beacon Street & Gaia Lane in Lichfield which is full of scratched names & pictures and I'm wondering what was once here which drew in so many graffiti artists?
July 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
There's a wall on the corner of Beacon Street & Gaia Lane in Lichfield which is full of scratched names & pictures and I'm wondering what was once here which drew in so many graffiti artists?
I'm revisiting the mystery of the so-called The Highwayman's Grave in Sandon, Staffordshireand I think I may have a new lead to follow.
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The Highwayman’s Grave
I love a tomb with a tale attached and the churchyard at Sandon delivered. An article in the Staffordshire Sentinel in December 1955, talks of, ‘a grave, said to be that of a highwayman who m…
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June 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I'm revisiting the mystery of the so-called The Highwayman's Grave in Sandon, Staffordshireand I think I may have a new lead to follow.
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This time last week I cycled from Birmingham to Lichfield and came across this mural along the canal, underneath Spaghetti Junction. I had actually taken a wrong turn and this made me stop and get my bearings. So, thanks to the artist for grabbing my attention!
June 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This time last week I cycled from Birmingham to Lichfield and came across this mural along the canal, underneath Spaghetti Junction. I had actually taken a wrong turn and this made me stop and get my bearings. So, thanks to the artist for grabbing my attention!
The lichen on this weatherworn headstone at All Saints, Sandon conceals a story. Local legend says it's the grave of a highwayman but I want to uncover the truth behind this Staffordshire tomb.
June 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The lichen on this weatherworn headstone at All Saints, Sandon conceals a story. Local legend says it's the grave of a highwayman but I want to uncover the truth behind this Staffordshire tomb.
The beginning and end of Beaudesert Hall, an almost lost country house in Staffordshire.
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A Beautiful Wilderness
The story of Beaudesert Hall features an incredible cast of characters. There’s Lady Florence Paget, the ‘Pocket Venus’ who eloped with her lover Henry Hastings, and married him o…
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June 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The beginning and end of Beaudesert Hall, an almost lost country house in Staffordshire.
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Just been down to deck the gates of The Old Schoool House with branches which can only mean one thing....the Lichfield Bower cometh! 🌿
May 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Just been down to deck the gates of The Old Schoool House with branches which can only mean one thing....the Lichfield Bower cometh! 🌿
Just back from exploring the remains of Beaudesert Hall, near Lichfield. More on how it ended up in this state later!
May 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Just back from exploring the remains of Beaudesert Hall, near Lichfield. More on how it ended up in this state later!