The ghosts of Pluckley in Kent
DIRECTIONS
Go left from the tea room and along Smarden Road. Continue for quite a distance along a section of road that is lined with houses at certain spots and is quite remote at others.On arrival at Cliff Cottage, turn left into the uneven and unpaved Dick Buss’s Lane, named for a 1930s miller whose premises were reached by this tree-lined thoroughfare. In the 1920s, at the end of this lane, a group of children on their way to school came upon the body of their teacher, hanging from the branch of a tree. The reason for his suicide was never discovered, but on certain nights, when a light breeze rustles the trees and a full moon sits high over the neighbourhood, his ghostly form is clearly seen, swinging back and forth, hanging from the branch where his living form breathed its anguished last.
DIRECTIONS
Return to Smarden Road, turn left, go up the hill and then turn right onto The Street, where the first building on the right is the bakery. Renovation to this property included the removal of an old Victorian fireplace, and this exposed the original hearth. This prompted a spate of inexplicable happenings, including ghostly footsteps that stamped across an upper room and fell silent as they reached the fireplace. Residents reported an icy chill hanging in the air at this spot on even the hottest day. This section of the road is apparently the route used by a phantom coach and spectral horses that are heard, but never seen, racing by the houses in the early hours of the morning.
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