Atherstone, Warwickshire, England
Atherstone Market Square
The Phantom Farmer
One of the roads in Atherstone is reputedly haunted by the ghost of a farmer killed during a wager. He bet that he could ride from Atherstone to Alderminster within a certain time, but was unseated by an overhanging bough in the dark and killed as a result. It is said that if you see his ghost once, you will see him a total of three times.
For further information, please read Haunted Britain by Antony D. Hippisley Coxe.
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Atherstone is a town in Warwickshire, England.
Located in the far north of the county, Atherstone forms part of the border with Leicestershire along the A5 national route, and is only 4.5 miles from Staffordshire. It lies midway between the larger towns of Tamworth and Nuneaton.
Pictured left is Atherstone market square courtesy of Chris Wilson. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
