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The White Lady of Ordsall

A broken heart, 1599.

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The White Lady of Ordsall

A lady in white.

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Tudor timbered hall
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Salford
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  • Ordsall Hall
  • Near A5063
  • The pin marks the spot.

Still mourning her twin.

Ordsall Hall has stories of hauntings. A White Lady seen in the Great Hall or Star Chamber is said to be Margaret Radclyffe, who died of a broken heart in 1599 after her twin brother Alexander was killed in Ireland. A separate legend says the Gunpowder Plot was planned here, but that comes from an 1841 novel.

Sources

  1. Ordsall Hall, Wikipedia —
  2. Ghosts of Ordsall Hall, Ordsall Hall —
  3. Did Guy Fawkes really launch his gunpowder plot in Salford's Ordsall Hall?, Manchester Evening News —

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