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Date of Import: Oct 24, 2000
Date of Import: Oct 24, 2000
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http://www.chillingham-castle.com/index.htm
At first a 12th century stronghold, Chillingham became a fully fortified Castle in the 14th century. Steeped in the Nation's history we occupied a strategic position during Northumberland's bloody border feuds, often besieged and often enjoying the
patronage of royal visitors.
In Tudor days there were additions but the underlying Mediaeval character, detail and strength have always been retained.
The 18th and 19th centuries saw decorative landscape refinements and extravagancies including gardens and grounds laid out by Sir Jeffrey Wyatville, fresh from his triumphs at Windsor Castle.
Greys have lived here for 800 yrs.
It is the most haunted castle in britain.
We have a number of ghosts. The most famous is the "blue boy" who as midnight rang out would cry and moan in agony or maybe fear. The noises could be traced to a spot near a passage cut through a ten foot wall.
When the bloodcurdling wails die away a soft halo of light appears around an old four poster bed. Anyone sleeping there, even today, can see the figure of a young boy dressed in blue, and surrounded by light. Later behind the wall the bones of a young
boy and fragments of blue clothing were discovered.
Another ghost, Lady Mary Berkeley, searches for her husband, who ran off with her sister. Lady Mary, desolate and broken hearted lived in the castle by herself with only her baby girl as a companion. The rustle of her dress can be heard as she passes
you by in the turret stairs. But there are more!
Chillingham should certainly afford shelter to many wraiths of its departed owners and former dwellers. In this land of ancient dwellings very few houses have been lived in continuously from so early a date. For almost eight hundred years the long
procession stretches, of men, women and little children who have lived and loved and suffered therein.
The district is full of romance, and the Castle being so close to the Borderland was in old times the scene of many a raid from its Scottish neighbours, and its dungeons were probably seldom without some unfortunate inmate immured therein. We still see
on the dungeon walls ancient initials and lines scratched in by them to count the number of the weary days of their imprisonment. In what is called 'the inner pantry' there has been seen a frail figure in white. This was where the silver in use was
stored and a footman was once employed to sleep there to safeguard it.
One night the footman had turned in when he was accosted by a lady in white, very pale, who asked him for water. Thinking for the moment it was one of the visitors he turned away to obey her behest, when he suddenly remembered that he was locked in and
that no visitor could possibly have entered. On turning round he found the figure had vanished.
This same figure was seen also by a guest who made notes of her psychic experiences in the various rooms of the Castle without having been told of the Castle's claimed hauntings beforehand. It was surprising to see that she alluded to the longing for
water of a female ghost who 'must have been slowly poisoned in olden times.'
The Ghost in the Chamber
Not all the ghosts are those we see, some are merely felt. 'Impalpable impressions on the air,' the poet says -'A sense of something moving to and fro,' a chill dark thing that creeps, or an oppressive atmosphere, as in an upper chamber, overlooking
the dell, where the sensitive cannot remain.
A lady's maid who had been given this room was found next morning on the sofa in the dining hall. She had quitted her bed in a panic and nothing would induce her to return. It is said that a former chef, who occupied the room, was driven to commit
suicide there, and we no longer use it as a bedroom.
Voices in the Library
In the Library, underneath the upper chamber, the voices of two men are often heard talking, but it is not possible to follow what they say and they seem to cease at once if one stops reading or writing to listen to their discussion. It disturbs no one
and many have heard it but none has accounted for the fact.
Many scenes in the movie Elizabeth were shot here.
_Samuel HOWELL ______________+
| (1844 - 1902) m 1865
_John Wood HOWELL ________|
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| _Thomas Benjamin STEPHENSON _+
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