GhostHidden
The Boot-Throwing Ghost
A Georgian ghost with a fine aim for boots.
Private, don't visit
- What's there
- Tudor hall now used as a golf clubhouse
- Legend from
- Georgian letters
- Tone
- Light-hearted
Rochford Hall ahead. In 1776 something here was throwing boots at the servants' heads.
In letters written in August and September 1776, the Reverend Nicholas Griffinhoofe, rector of Woodham Mortimer, told of the Rochford Hall ghost, which was causing trouble at the old Tudor hall. It was said to throw boots and shoes at the men's heads, and the household wanted it laid by exorcism. Philip Benton printed the letters in his history of Rochford Hundred in 1867. The tale is often linked today with the Boleyn family, who held the hall, but Benton names no ghost of Anne Boleyn and says Blickling in Norfolk was her birthplace by tradition.
One sourceOnly one written account of this legend has been found so far.