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The Roundhead in the churchyard

The war ended. One trooper stayed on watch.

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The Roundhead in the churchyard

Hoofbeats in the churchyard, and nobody there.

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Norman church and churchyard
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Local ghost lore
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Eerie
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Before you go

Parish church; churchyard accessible. Check before you go.

  • All Saints Church, Crondall
  • Near A287
  • The pin marks the spot.

A Roundhead on horseback, still riding through a Hampshire churchyard.

All Saints Church in Crondall, near Farnham, is a fine Norman church. During the English Civil War it was used as a minor outpost by Parliamentarian troops. Since then there have been reported sightings of the ghosts of Parliamentarian soldiers in the churchyard, including a mounted Roundhead in full battle dress. Wikipedia gives this as a reported tradition, with no named witnesses or dates. No other fetched source repeats it, so treat it as a single-source tale. Visitors see a Norman church with a churchyard where the soldiers were once posted.

One sourceOnly one written account of this legend has been found so far.

Sources

  1. Crondall, Wikipedia —

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