Ghost
The Moat Lady
Each Valentine's Eve she rises from the moat, and someone dies before dawn.
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- What's there
- A private farmhouse, not open to visitors
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Near here is Moat Farm, where a murdered woman was said to rise from the water each Valentine's Eve and claim a life.
Much Hadham remembered a darker side to St Valentine's season. On Valentine's Eve, it was said, a ghost known as the Moat Lady rose from the moat at Moat Farm, and before morning someone would die. Often enough a traveller did die around the middle of February, if not always on exactly the right night. The Lady is supposed to have been murdered and sunk at the bottom of the moat by her killer, and she will go on claiming victims until her bones are found and given Christian burial. Moat Farm House is a listed building on a medieval moated site at Kettle Green.
One sourceOnly one written account of this legend has been found so far.