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Most Haunted Village In England.
On arrival at the church gate pass out onto The Street.†Follow the road as it forks left and becomes Station Road. Keep ahead until, on the left, you arrive at the large white house.
This house, Greystones, is haunted by a monk who drifts among the surrounding trees. He is said to have lived in Tudor times, and is reputed to have fallen in love with the daughter of a neighbouring property. As we shall see shortly (see below), she died under tragic circumstances and he sank into a state of melancholy and bitterness. His only solace was to walk the green fields and leafy lanes where they had enjoyed so many romantic interludes together. But, as time passed, he sank deeper into depression, pining for his dead lover, and finally died of a broken heart. His ghost, however, continued to wander the neighbourhood, and was last seen in 1989 by an American journalist who glimpsed his unmistakable brown-robed figure drifting behind the house.
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Proceed along Station Road and try to sense the feeling that is said to pervade this section.
More than one person walking along here has heard the sound of a man and woman chatting happily, accompanied by a dog’s playful yapping. Closer and closer they get until they are virtually upon you, and then the phantoms fade as they pass along the road – much as they have done for as long as anyone can remember.DIRECTIONS
A little further along you arrive at an unnamed road that stretches away to the left. Behind the hedge on the right of this can be seen Rose Court.
The house is at least 250 years old, and is said to have been built by a member of the Dering family for his mistress; there is no exact date, but the period is generally described as Tudor. Whatever the case, the story goes that she fell in love with the monk who lived at Greystones (see above), and found the love triangle so distressing that she drank a fatal cocktail distilled from the juices of ivy and other poisonous berries. When her body was discovered, it was apparent that her final moments had been spent looking across the field to Greystones.The fact that Greystones wasn’t built until 1863 – should not stand in the way of a perfectly good ghost story, there could have been another house on the site then!†Strange things do indeed happen within Rose Court. Articles are moved around in the night, strange groans and sighs disturb the early hours and it is said that a peculiar eerie atmosphere hangs over the garden.
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