Headless ghostFamous
The Mortham Dobby
White silk at night.
Private, don't visit
- What's there
- Pele tower by the Greta
- Legend from
- Barnard Castle
- Tone
- Eerie
Headless ghost · Rokeby · Famous
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White silk at night.
Private, don't visit
Private house, recently listed for sale; no public access. Check before you go.
Laid under a bridge.
A headless lady trailing white silk, her face in her breast, was said to haunt Mortham. She was a murdered heiress or a Lady Rokeby shot by robbers. A parson laid her under the dairy bridge over the Greta, but floods destroyed it in 1771.