Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England
Fawsley Hall
Fawsley Park Dower House
Fawsley Hall and landscape park was created by the Knightley family. Richard Knightley, a well-to-do Staffordshire lawyer, bought the manor of Fawsley in 1416. The dower house in Fawsley Park, last inhabited in 1702 and now in ruins, was built for Lady Ursula after her husband Sir Edmund Knightley died. It was placed on the Heritage at Risk register by English Heritage in 2014.
The ghost of a huntsman dressed in green appears in the ruins on New Years Eve. He will foretell the death of anyone brave - or stupid - enough to visit on that night.
Pictured left is the Dower House courtesy of Ian Robb.
Coordinates:
52.216265, -1.166679
For further information, please read Britain's Haunted Heritage by J A Brooks.
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Fawsley is a hamlet in Northamptonshire, England.
Fawsley is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.
Pictured left is Fawsley Hall courtesy of Peter Mattock. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
