This book I’ve been after for a while, I love learning more about our folklore and macabre history.

THE HELLEBORE GUIDE TO OCCULT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND
Paperback, 13 x 18 cm, with flaps.
316 pages.

For UK available Here for EU available Here

Unsure about USA but perhaps message them on Etsy Here and possibly request information on that.

Exploring castles, museums and manor houses, megaliths, moors, mountains and lakes, this lavishly illustrated travel guide covers the rich history of magic and the occult in Britain and Northern Ireland and its inextricable bond with the landscape.

Delve into a world of witchcraft, ancient rituals, and occult ceremonies.
From the ancient stone circles of the Cornish moors to the wealthy manor houses of Hampshire, from the windswept headlands of Northumbria to the golden streets of Oxford, from the turbulent Scottish borderlands to the rugged Causeway Coast, this guide ventures into hundreds of locations with magical links, exploring the works of authors and creators inspired by their strange, numinous beauty; the lives of the occultists, witches, and cunning folk who inhabited them; and the legends that persist.

Explore over 500 locations with magical links.

• The Scottish mansion where Aleister Crowley summoned the Lords of Hell
• The Cotswolds town that worshipped Pan
• The desolate moors that inspired Conan Doyle’s ghostly hound
• The library where Elizabethan magus John Dee conjured a demon
• The “evil oratory” where Sir Gawain met the Green Knight
• The gateway to Fairyland in Iona
• The spectral Yorkshire town that inspired Dracula
• The ancient forest where Gerald Gardner’s coven performed a ritual to prevent the German invasion

… and many more.

Includes film, TV, and literary locations of folk horror and occult classics.

Editor: Maria J. Pérez Cuervo
Art director: Nathaniel Hébert
Map editor: Chris Esson
Icons and map design: Janina Reinhard
Contributors: Reggie Chamberlain-King (Northern Ireland), Elizabeth Dearnley (Scotland), Verity Holloway (South East, East Anglia, London), Maria J. Pérez Cuervo (South West, Wales, film, TV, and literary locations), John Reppion (North East, North West), and Katy Soar (East and West Midlands).

A new day and weather is improving from our first day in Padley Gorge seen here and here. So we make our sarnies and cappuccino flask, grab our bags and off we go, to quite possibly the most romantic place I’ve ever visited.

It’s Wyming Brook Nature Reserve, it used to be a Royal Hunting Forest. Now it’s home for dog walkers and photo togs. The colours are like fiery embers and the exact reason for our trip. We’ve previously been here in the Summer and it was outstanding then, but it’s even more magickal now.

We get some rain again, but handsomely rewarded for the second time in 2 days with a double rainbow, and able to see the end of the rainbow once again. It’s almost as if our loved ones are sending us a message from Heaven. I’d like to think so.

Everywhere we look there are photo opportunities if you like to take photos, it’s so Tolkien esque at times, middle earth would be at home here. We don’t walk much as it’s a very short walk, it’s more of a chance to embrace the river and all the waterfalls.

Body is worn out, pains are getting worse, but mentally I’m recharged and over the moon we got to absorb such beauty. We found off our day with some warm tea, a well deserved coffee and snuggle up with a movie. Honestly haven’t felt so content, weather is blowing a hoolie, but we are warm and exhausted and sleep easily.