Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England

Missenden Abbey

Missenden Abbey

Coxe states that the Abbey is haunted. He states that the Black Monks of Missenden were “notorious”, then touches on two accounts involving a novice who cut her throat in 1297 and a monk who felt it appropriate that he carried a sword during his time there in 1530. A phantom monk has been reported wandering the grounds and water meadow nearby. Brooks states that it is haunted by a lady "dressed in crinolines" that was seen floating down the stairs and through a door. Other phenomena include a vase being thrown and the sounds of an "eerie wailing cry" in corridors.

 

Coxe also refers to the Little Abbey Hotel being on the B.T.A.’S list of reputedly haunted hotels, and it is believed that the two entries refer to the one location as the abbey now features as an educational centre and an hotel. It is not open to the general public.

Missenden Abbey Conference Centre,

London Road,

Great Missenden,

Buckinghamshire, HP16 0BD.

 

For further information, please visit:

www.missendenabbey.co.uk

 

For further information, please read Haunted Britain by Antony D. Hippisley Coxe, Ghosts of Buckinghamshire by Betty Puttick and Haunted Places of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire by Rupert Matthews.

High Street and environs

The area of High Street and those surrounding the George Inn are also frequented by a dark figure similar in desciption to that seen at the Abbey.

 

For further information, please read Haunted Places of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire by Rupert Matthews.

Location

Visitor Information

Great Missenden is a large village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated in the Misbourne Valley in the Chiltern Hills between the towns of Amersham and Wendover. The late Roald Dahl, the internationally famous children’s author, had his home in the village.

Pictured above left is Missenden Abbey courtesy of James Allen.