Nomansland lies just outside of Holford, and is said to be haunted by a coach and four black horses that appear at midnight on Christmas Eve. It drives up, turns and then drives away again. Sometimes the coach has a female passenger. It is believed that her apparition is sometimes seen walking between Holford and Nether Stowey.

The Plough Inn (pictured above) is said to be haunted by the ghost of a Spanish traveller murdered there in 1555.

Shervage Wood is located between Holford and Castle of Comfort, and it retains part of the Wayland Smithy legend. The smithy cooled the horseshoes for the Wild Hunt at Wayland’s Pool.

 

Another legend states that the area was the home to a dragon called the ‘Gurt Vurm’.

Walford’s Gibbet lies southeast of the castle of Comfort. The path leading to it is haunted by the apparition of one John Walford, a dark, handsome (some say a gypsy) and popular 24-year-old charcoal-burner hung for murder in 1789. Some claim that the smell of rotting flesh still hangs in the air (for want of a better expression). At nearby Dead Woman’s Ditch, the ghost of the victim Jenny has been reported. However, some claim that this was not the location of the murder.