The Luton Paranormal Society's Kensworth page lists the witch alongside the village's headless milkmaid and a black dog. The footpath that runs from Beech Road, to the north of Church End, towards the church is said to be haunted by the ghost of an old woman wearing a black four cornered hat, which would date her to the late 18th century.
She follows the path from the woods, which lie some three hundred metres to the north of the church, until she reaches the stile, now with a gate, into the churchyard. There she stops. Instead of entering she angrily shakes her fist at the church. The legend given is that a local witch was forbidden to enter the churchyard and now spends eternity venting her anger at it. The society's page also shows a photograph labelled the Witches Gate.
The same page lists a third Kensworth ghost, Shuck, described as a one-eyed black retriever, and says the footpath between Common Road and Hollicks Lane is known as the Coffin Route because people who could not afford a hearse carried coffins along it to St Mary's. Neither is developed further and both are only mentioned here for context.
There is no named witness or date for the witch, and the dating from the hat style is the page's own inference. It is a traditional story with a typical shape: an outcast woman denied burial ground.
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