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BROWNSOVER HALL HOTEL ;-WarwickshireBROWNSOVER HALL HOTEL
Brownsover
Near Rugby
Warwickshire
Wine and Dine in the Phantom Coach Restaurant` is the recommendation of the owners of this haunted hotel, for the phantom and associated `ghostly happenings` have occurred so frequently that the staff now fully accept the phenomena as 'just one of those things` Legend has it that in time of Elizabeth I', a one-armed ancestor of the family known as 'One Handed Boughton'used to drive round his estate quite capably in a coach and six . For some unknown reason when he died the multiple apparition of his coach with six horses and the old man continued. In 1755 the family decided to rid the property of the `frightening apparition` and called on the services of a vast team of clergymen to carry out an exorcism. The service was, apparently only temporarily successful. One of the weird rite carried out by the Rector of Harborough Magna one of the participants, was to persuade 'the spirit to enter a bottle which was quickly sealed and thrown into a lake in the grounds'.
In the 1880`s the container was discovered by a fisherman and returned to the family, And of course rumours restarted that footsteps were being heard and the sound of horses hooves `clomping over the fields from Lawford Hall` Nevertheless, the bottle itself was still to be seen in 1964 in a cupboard when Browsover Hall was used as the head office of the diesel engine division of English Electric Group of companies. When they left the bottle taken by Mrs. Boughton - Leigh a survivor of the original family, back to her house at Lawford Hall. In 1939, Sir Frank Whittle . father of the modern jet engine, set up a research establishment in the hall, but the introduction of modern science in the ancient walls had no effect on the haunting. Night watchmen from nearby Lutterworth and Whetstone constantly heard footsteps and the sound of voices when the building was empty. On one occasion a night cleaner swore that he heard talking and groaning coming from the tower which still forms an integral portion of the house. Mr. Nairn, a nigh watchman at the hall refused to accept that the place was haunted, attributing the noises to the scrabbling of jackdaws in the chimney. His wife however was convinced of the existence of the ghost. Confirming Mrs. Nairns belief is the statement of another watchman, Mr. Dunkley. He had been sitting in the hall one night when he suddenly heard hoofbeats and the sound of wheels on the drive. On opening the front door to see who or what was calling, his dog Judy, who accompanied him, snarled, bristled and fled. The drive was empty. Many other members of the staff have seen and heard examples of the haunting John Flavell an ex-Guardsman, felt something unseen brush past him and later heard the sound of a chair scraping on the floor of the empty conference room. Mr. Prestidge, heard footsteps and the sound of horses on the drive and those sounds can still be experienced today
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