Bosley. No obvious monastic names there despite some intriguing humps and bumps in the fields to the east. To the west, we have Little and Big Dogbottom Woods.

The "monk" figure had clothes but no face. That's a fightening thought- what if our ghosts wear flares?

The "haunted stretch of canal cutting" mentioned by bubblyrat 8 years ago is probably Betton Cutting near Market Drayton on the Shroppie. If I'm not wrong (and I usually am), this is a "derivative" ghost. Monty James wrote a story, "A Neighbour's Landmark", which involved a screaming ghost in Betton Woods (fictional and not on the Shroppie). This seems to have been translocated to its namesake, but how and when is a mystery. It's known that Tom Rolt was a James fan- I wonder if he told tales on dark winters' evenings in boatmens' pubs, which got asociated with the namesake location.

All speculation, as is the coincidental fact that there is another wood grubbed up because of a screaming ghost near another canal. Skratta Wood near Shireoak Hall on the Chesterfield Canal is supposed to have hosted just such a ghost. And a couple of miles from Shireoak Hall is the area called Walling Well... Monty James wrote a story called "Wailing Well"!! Spooky or what?