Ghost
Nell Gwynne's Grey Lady
Beyond the moat of a closed old hall, a king's mistress walks in grey.
Private, don't visit
- What's there
- A private moated hall, not open to visitors
- Legend from
- 1600s
- Tone
- Eerie
Just off the road here is Salisbury Hall, where the ghost of Nell Gwynne, Charles II's favourite, is said to walk as a grey lady.
Moated Salisbury Hall, rebuilt in the late 17th century, is linked by tradition with Charles II and his mistress Nell Gwynne, who is said to have stayed in a cottage by the bridge over the moat. The house is reputed to be haunted, and the best-known apparition is said to be Nell herself, appearing as a grey lady. Visitors were long told ghost stories of the house until it closed to the public in the 1980s. In later centuries Winston Churchill's mother lived here, and during the Second World War the Mosquito aircraft was designed in the grounds.