Ghost
The Nun of Hinchingbrooke
A forbidden love, two skeletons, and a figure at the back door.
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- What's there
- Tudor mansion on nunnery remains, now a school
- Legend from
- Medieval setting, 1960s reports
- Tone
- Eerie
Hinchingbrooke House was a nunnery long before it was a mansion. One of the sisters, they say, never left.
Hinchingbrooke House grew out of a medieval nunnery before becoming the Cromwells' and later the Earls of Sandwich's mansion, and is now part of Hinchingbrooke School. Its best-known ghost is a nun, reported since the 1960s and nearly always at the back of the house, where remains of the old priory survive. Legend says she had a secret affair with a monk and both were executed when it was discovered. Skeletons later found hidden under a staircase in the house fed the tale. She is also said to haunt the nearby Nun's Bridge over Alconbury Brook.