- Introduction
- Secrets of the Sea
- Unnatural natural history
- The supernatural
- Men and women of the sea
- South-West England and Channel Islands
- Garland Day (Abbotsbury, Dorset)
- The last battle of the Revenge (Bideford, Devon)
- A sea above the earth (Bodmin, Cornwall)
- Drowned bells (Boscastle, Cornwall)
- The Dog of Bouley (Bouley Bay, Jersey, Channel Islands)
- The devil-fish (Brecqhou, Channel Islands)
- Remoras (Bristol)
- Coins to pay Neptune (Brixham, Devon)
- The mermaid’s curse (Brockweir, Gloucestershire)
- A fake mermaid (Bude, Cornwall)
- A quiet baby (Cawsand, Devon)
- The skeleton in the closet (Chambercombe Manor, Devon)
- John Dory (Fowey, Cornwall)
- Tregeagle’s tasks (Gwenvor Sands, Cornwall)
- Snakestones (Keynsham, Somerset)
- The Witch of Fraddam (Kynance Cove, Cornwall)
- The drowned land of Lyonnesse (Land’s End, Cornwall)
- Fishermen salute the rocks (Lihou, Channel Islands)
- Napoleon’s visit (Lulworth Cove, Dorset)
- Invasion by the French (Lundy, Devon)
- The sea-god Nodens (Lydney, Gloucestershire)
- The Bermudas and The Tempest (Lyme Regis, Dorset)
- Atlantis
- Mrs Leakey’s whistling ghost (Minehead, Somerset)
- Reverend Hawker and the wreckers (Morwenstow, Cornwall)
- Sarah Polgrain and Yorkshire Jack (Mount’s Bay, Cornwall)
- The Flying Dutchman
- Blessing the Sea (Mudeford, Dorset)
- The mermaid’s revenge (Padstow, Cornwall)
- Laments of the Sea (Paternosters, Jersey, Channel Islands)
- Sailing on a bone (La Perelle Bay, Guernsey, Channel Islands)
- Sir Francis Drake the wizard (Plymouth, Devon)
- Soul-birds (Porlock, Somerset)
- The taking of Sark (Le Port du Creux, Sark, Channel Islands)
- Magical beats (Portland, Dorset)
- The vicar and the Spanish galleon (Portlemouth, Devon)
- John Carter the King of Prussia (Prussia Cove, Cornwall)
- The Green Ray (Rocquaine Bay, Guernsey, Channel Islands)
- A bridge from Jersey to France (La Rocque, Jersey, Channel Islands
- Praying for a rich wreck (St Agnes, Scilly Isles)
- ‘The Wrecker and the Death Ship’ (St Just, Cornwall)
- Guernsey donkeys and Jersey toads (St Martin’s Point, Guernsey, Channel Islands)
- The parish bells of Jersey (St Ouen’s Bay, Jersey, Channel Islands
- The pressed man (Sheepstor, Devon)
- ‘The Sea Morgan and the Conger Eels’ (Steart, Somerset)
- King Arthur’s sword (Studland Heath, Dorset)
- ‘Steer to the Nor’-West’ (Torquay, Devon)
- Corineus and the giants (Totnes, Devon)
- A Civil War romance (Tresco, Scilly Isles)
- Invasion by the fairies (Vazon Bay, Guernsey, Channel Islands)
- Smugglers and Wreckers
- The Ancient Mariner (Watchet, Somerset)
- Cruel Coppinger (Welcombe, Devon)
- The Cursing Psalm (Western Rocks, Scilly Isles)
- The man who didn’t believe in luck (Weston-super-Mare, Somerset)
- Admiral Tryon’s ghost (Weymouth, Dorset)
- Isaac Gulliver the gentle smuggler (Wimborne Minster, Dorset)
- A mermaid in church (Zennor, Cornwall)
- South-East England
- Sweet Fanny Adams (Alton, Hampshire)
- Halcyon days (Arundel, West Sussex)
- A haunted ship (Bermondsey, London)
- Vikings steal a bell (Bosham, West Sussex)
- The Druids’ well (Brading, Isle of Wight)
- Ghosts of the dockyard (Chatham, Kent)
- The headless frogman (Chichester, West Sussex)
- Launching a ship (Cowes, Isle of Wight)
- A Sussex moonraker (Cuckmere Haven, East Sussex)
- St Dunstan and the Devil (Devil’s Dyke, West Sussex)
- Giant ships (Dover, Kent)
- Visions of a ghost ship (Dunnose Point, Isle of Wight)
- Figureheads
- The Herring Spear and the Seven Whistlers (Folkestone, Kent)
- The ship-swallower (Goodwin Sands, Kent)
- The Hawkhurst Gang (Hawkhurst, Kent)
- Smugglers and vicars (Hove, East Sussex)
- St Nicholas (Hythe, Kent)
- The jinx on the Great Eastern (Isle of Dogs, London)
- The Lion’s Mane (Margate, Kent)
- The headless sailor
- A sea-serpent (Newhaven, East Sussex)
- The Pied Piper (Newtown, Isle of Wight)
- Mutiny at the Nore (The Nore, Kent)
- Jack the Painter (Portsmouth, Hampshire)
- The fata Morgana (Ramsgate, Kent)
- The Dunkirk Armada (Sandwich Flats, Kent)
- St Wilfrid converts Sussex (Selsey, West Sussex)
- The tale of Grey Dolphin (Isle of Sheppey, Kent)
- A postponed vow and a phantom ship (Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex)
- Customs of the sea (Stepney, London)
- Sharks’ teeth (Whitstable, Kent)
- East Anglia
- The Long Coastguardsman (Bacton, Norfolk)
- Horatio Lord Nelson (Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk)
- Oysters and oyster shells (Colchester, Essex)
- St Elmo’s fire (Cromer, Norfolk)
- Shadowfeet (Dennington, Suffolk)
- ‘The Four-Eyed Cat’ (Dovercourt, Essex)
- The drowned city (Dunwich, Suffolk)
- Watery fiends (Framlingham, Suffolk)
- A smuggler outwits the Customs (Corleston-on-Sea, Norfolk)
- Unlucky Friday (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)
- Herring
- The legless spectre (Happisburgh, Norfolk)
- Bessie Catchpole the smuggler (Harwich, Essex)
- The bookfish (King’s Lynn, Norfolk)
- A demon dog (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
- A wild man of the sea (Orford, Suffolk)
- Black Shuck (Overstrand, Norfolk)
- The Viking invasion (Reedham, Norfolk)
- An appearing island (Scroby Sands, Norfolk)
- Omens of storm and drowning (Sheringham, Norfolk)
- Ship burials (Sutton Hoo, Suffolk)
- The body in the boat (Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex)
- Sea-serpents of East Anglia (Thorpeness, Suffolk)
- Strange Fish and Jenny Hanivers
- North-East England
- The magic ship and the loathly worm (Bamburgh, Northumberland)
- Unlucky houses (Bishopswearmouth, Tyne and Wear)
- Cormorants (Boston, Lincolnshire)
- A coastguardsman outwits the smugglers (Crimdon Dene, County Durham)
- King of the herrings (Cullercoats, Tyne and Wear)
- Guy the Seeker (Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland)
- St Cuthbert and the demons (Farne Islands, Northumberland)
- The haddock’s spots (Filey Brig, North Yorkshire)
- A cloud called Noah’s Ark (Gunthorpe, Lincolnshire)
- Hanging the monkey (Hartlepool, County Durham)
- Sea-fire (Hauxley, Northumberland)
- Going out with the tide (Hesleden, County Durham)
- Jonah and the Whale
- Whales and whaling (Hull, East Yorkshire)
- A miracle of St Cuthbert (Lindisfarne (Holy Island), Northumberland)
- Grace Darling (Longstone Lighthouse, Northumberland)
- Press gangs (North Shields, Tyne and Wear)
- Robin Hood at sea (Robin Hood’s Bay, North Yorkshire)
- The greedy sea (Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire)
- Lucky water (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
- A Sea-Man (Skinningrove, North Yorkshire)
- Survival Cannibalism
- Burning fishbones (Staithes, North Yorkshire)
- St Hilda and the serpents (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
- ‘The Cruel Knight and the Fortunate Farmer’s Daughter’ (York, North Yorkshire)
- North-West England and Isle of Man
- Drowned bells (Blackpool, Lancashire)
- ‘When ours come back from the sea’ (Bowness-on-Solway, Cumbria)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (Brigham, Cumbria)
- The Virgin Mary drowned for murder (Chester, Cheshire)
- A ghost aboard (River Dee, Cheshire)
- Herdwick sheep (Drigg, Cumbria)
- The moving island (King William’s Banks, Isle of Man)
- Hunting the wren
- Manx charmers (Kirk Michael, Isle of Man)
- The Night Man (Laxey, Isle of Man)
- A bird of ill omen (Liverpool, Merseyside)
- The Carrasdhoo Men (Maughold Head, Isle of Man)
- A rainy buzzer (Millom, Cumbria)
- Cures from the tide (Morecambe, Lancashire)
- A blessed harbour (Netherton, Cheshire)
- Mermaids of Man (Niarbyl, Isle of Man)
- Hay from Merton Sands (Over, Cheshire)
- The Mauthe Doog (Peel, Isle of Man)
- The undersea world (Port Erin, Isle of Man)
- A sea phantom (Priest Skear, Lancashire)
- Pearls (Ravenglass, Cumbria)
- The Penny Stone (Rossall Point, Lancashire)
- Three legs (Spanish Head, Isle of Man)
- Kings can’t drown
- King Canute (Wallasey, Merseyside)
- A wrecking vicar (Walney Island, Cumbria)
- Traditional football (Workington, Cumbria)
- Wales
- Scottish Lowlands
- Scottish Highlands and Islands
- Northern Eire and Northern Ireland
- Southern Eire
Topics covered by this book
- The Tempest (drama) • p23 • The wreck of the Sea Venture in Bermuda as a source for Shakespeare's play
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (poem) • p58
- Jonah (book) • p164
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