Horshaw is a location in the Wardstone Chronicles.
Description[]
Horshaw is described as a black smear against the green fields, a bleak, ugly and grim little place with around two dozen rows of mean back-to-back huddling together on the slope of the damp, bleak hillside. The whole area is riddled with mines with the village of Horshaw at it's center.
High above the village is a large heap of slag which marks the entrance to the mines. Behind the heap lies coal yards with large amounts of coal. The streets are narrow and cobbled and the walls of the houses a grimy, the village also hosts a church.
History and heritage[]
Horshaw is the village where the Gregory family lived for a time, and in the village, on 13 Watery Lane, John Gregory and his brothers grew up.
In the same house on Watery Lane, John took all his new apprentices to test them if they are ready to become an spook's apprentice. The house is haunted, and the on-trial apprentices have to witness the story of an old sick miner who buried his wife alive in the cellar.
Known inhabitants[]
- Father Gregory, the brother of John, Andrew and Paul Gregory, who worked as the priest in the village church.
- Sherdley - The local doctor
Appearances[]
- The Spook's Apprentice, John takes his new apprentice Tom Ward to 13 Watery Lane where he tests him in the haunted house. Tom eventually passes his test and he and his master continue towards the spook's house in Chipenden.
- In The Spook's Curse, Tom goes to Horshaw to bind a boggart who is sucking the blood of Father Gregory. Tom, with the help of experienced local men, sucessfully binds it and Tom can return back to Chipenden.