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  • There is a rather good reason to be talking about Mrs Veal right now. This October, Canterbury will host City of Ghosts: The Canterbury Ghost Story Festival, a new festival celebrating the city’s remarkable place in the history of supernatural storytelling. Taking place at St Gregory’s on Saturday 3 October, the festival marks 320 years…

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  • Bolton Percy Gatehouse.

    Bolton Percy Gatehouse.

    For my birthday recently, we escaped to Bolton Percy for a few nights in its beautiful 15th-century gatehouse. A tiny Yorkshire village, an incredible historic building and a graveyard practically in the back garden… that all sounds like a perfect celebration to me. The gatehouse itself was stunning. Not far from York and tucked away…

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  • Creekside ghosts in Faversham.

    I lived in Canterbury for almost ten years, but somehow never properly explored neighbouring Faversham beyond the occasional quick visit. Going back recently and finally spending real time there made me realise how much I had missed. Kent feels different to me these days anyway. It holds quite a few ghosts of my own (and…

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