Waddow Hall

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Waddow Hall

Waddow Hall is a listed Grade II building at Clitheroe in the English county of Lancashire , which as a conference and leisure center for the Girl Scouts organization Girlguiding UK serves. It dates back to the 17th century and is surrounded by 72 hectares of land. Waddow Hall has been managed by girl guiding since 1927.

history

The Waddow Estate and Parish of Waddington has existed since the mid-13th century and was administered at the time by Roger de Tempest Bracewell, Lord of Waddington. The Tempests had Waddow Hall built during the Tudor era. The estate and lands remained in the family's possession until 1657, when Richard Tempest was killed in a debt prison.

View across Waddow Hall to the Ribble

After Richard's death in prison, the estate was taken over by Christopher Wilkinson of Clitheroe, an administrator and later MP in the English Parliament . Wilkinson bequeathed it to his nephew John Weddell of Widdington in 1693 (instead of his own son, whom he suspected of being a papist ). In 1778 Thomas Weddell bequeathed the estate to Sir John Ramsden.

Waddow remained in the Ramsden family until it was sold to William Garnett in the mid-1800s. Between 1927 and 1928, the Girl Guides Association rented the property for use as a leisure center and acquired it from William Garnet's son on October 16, 1928 for £ 9,000.

During the Second World War the estate was donated to Lancashire County Council and served as an isolation hospital for sick children.

Haunted legend

According to local legend, the house is said to be haunted by the ghost of Peg O'Nell, a former servant at Waddow Hall who was murdered by her landlady. Legend has it that Peg O'Nell was sent to a well to fetch water. When her mistress cast a spell, she slipped while scooping the water and died.

In November 2004, the UK paranormal reality television show Most Haunted aired from Waddow Hall.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Waddow Hall - Waddington - Lancashire - England. British Listed Buildings, accessed April 9, 2013 .
  2. ^ Towns and Villages. Forest of Bowland, accessed April 9, 2013 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Waddow Hall. Vine Press, The Girl Guides Association, 1981.
  4. ^ Rescued Heritage Open Days unveil festival of unseen sites. Culture24, August 5, 2009, accessed April 9, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Christina Hole: Haunted England: A Survey of English Ghost Lore 1941 . Kessinger Publishing, 2004, pp. 2-3.
  6. ↑ Lewis Spence: The minor traditions of British mythology . Ayer Publishing, 1948, pp. 12-13.
  7. ↑ Most Haunted Live. (No longer available online.) The Paranormal Experience, 2004, archived from the original on April 26, 2012 ; accessed on April 9, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theparanormalexperience.co.uk

Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 46.9 "  N , 2 ° 24 ′ 16.9"  W.