Month by month, we explored the Way, watched the seasons blend and change, the sun rise and set, and wildlife go about its business. We visited fêtes and festivals, flower shows, castles and historic houses, and we uncovered the hidden stories of smugglers and highwaymen, sheep stealers and turncoats, mistresses and murderers.

In this book are:

· The lost medieval villages of Exceat, Perching, Lomer and Bulmer, all abandoned after the Black Death;

· The marked sites of ancient gibbets — Jacob’s Post and Jack Upperton’s gibbet — and the crossroads where a murderer was buried with a stake through his bowels;

· The remains of a Victorian isolation hospital and fairground, and the site of a Victorian ‘lunatic asylum’

· The manor house that was so haunted its owner negotiated tax relief; and

· Many more stories of ghosts, giants, fairies and, of course, the Devil himself.