Hickling Broad

Hickling, Norfolk · United Kingdom · Natural site

A phantom drummer echoes across the ice, a young lover who drowned in the nineteenth century.

Hickling Broad in Norfolk. On winter nights when people stay indoors against the wind, the rhythmic tattoo of a ghostly drum sounds across the Broad. A poor drummer boy from the early nineteenth century was searching for his sweetheart, who drowned through the ice. Source: Haunted Places in Britain (PDF compilation).

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Where is Hickling Broad located?

Hickling Broad is in Hickling, Norfolk, United Kingdom.

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Accounts are drawn from local folklore and visitor reports.

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