🌲🧚👻 Writer of strange & unusual tales. Ghosts, folklore & history from Wiltshire and beyond. Earth & nature lover. 👻🧚🌲 ☕ www.weird-wiltshire.co.uk
Emma Weird Wiltshire
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This is Mrs Ridout leading 'The Coombe Express', painted in 1878, by Frank Brooks.
Mrs Ridout would convey goods from Coombe Bissett to The Shoulder of Mutton Inn, Salisbury.
On the way home she would stop at The Swan for a final refreshment, sharing her ale with her donkeys using the same jug! 🫏🍺😊
🧵Midwinter, 1927. Dr R.R. Clay, village doctor of Fovant, is driving the road from Cranborne to Handley. Around 100 metres past Squirrels Corner, a horseman appears from the northwest, moving in the same direction. 🧵👻
I drove past my favourite Wiltshire pub sign today! Poor Kate and Wills look worse every time I see it (if that’s possible). 😂😂
#pubsigns #wiltshire
Welcome to a new week from a hill in North Dorset! 🐓🐔
A worthwhile wall plaque…😳😅
Come for a Saturday Stonehenge drive-by with me! 😊
#wiltshire #stonehenge
🧵Four Late Neolithic to Bronze Age bowl barrows sit near the road. Cranborne Chase holds 395 such examples - one of the most significant ancient burial landscapes in Britain. Dr Clay was not the only one troubled by this threatening horseman on that lonely road. Was he guarding the barrows? 🧵👻
They watch as the sun emerges on the Summer Solstice, marking the longest day of the year before they turn and go back into the long barrow for another year.
The story was told by local farmers, people up with the larks, who had witnessed the Priest and his Fae dog in years gone by. 🌞
#solstice
It is, as the sun rises across the landscape of magical Avebury, that the Druid Priest, swathed in white robes with long white hair, emerges from West Kennet Long Barrow to stand atop the mound with his Fae hound. A large dog with red tipped ears.
#summersolstice #avebury #solstice2026
🧵Long bare legs. A long, loose coat. A horse with a flowing mane and tail but no bridle, no stirrups. The rider's face turned toward the doctor but he could make out no features. In his right hand, raised above his head, the rider brandished something threatening. Then he was gone. 🧵👇
