Siddington, Cheshire, England
Capesthorne Hall
Capesthorne Hall
Capesthorne Hall is currently the home of the Bromley-Davenports family. However, their ancestors from the Wards and Capesthornes have lived here since the Domesday era. The hall was constructed between 1719 and 1732, replacing an earlier structure.
The building is allegedly haunted by a number of apparitions. These include a “line of shadowy spectres descending into the vault beneath the chapel”; a severed arm that tries to access a bedroom window; and a Lady in Grey that has been sighted along a corridor between the drawing room and dining room.
The author, Peter Underwood, hearing what sounded like footsteps coming from a room whilsy he was on a tour of the house. When the room was inspected it was found to be empty, leaving him to muse as to the source of what he experienced.
Pictured left is Capesthorne Hall courtesy of Mark Percy.
Congleton Road,
Siddington,
Macclesfield,
Cheshire, SK11 9JY.
For further information, please read Haunted Britain by Antony D. Hippisley Coxe, Ghosts and Haunted Places by Peter Underwood, The Ghosts of Cheshire by Muriel Armand and Haunted Britain and Ireland by Richard Jones.
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Visitor Information
Siddington is a civil parish in Cheshire, England. It consists of farms; a picnic site; Redesmere, a half-mile long lake; and the Capesthorne Estate. The village is at the crossroads of the A34 with the B5392 approximately half-way between Alderley Edge and Congleton.
Pictured left is Capesthorne Hall by Tom Pennington. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
