Ghost
The ghost of Fulke Greville
He never lived in the tower he haunts.
Stand where it happened
- What's there
- Castle tower with oak-panelled rooms
- Legend from
- 1920s castle tradition
- Tone
- Wry
A ghost made for the visitors.
Sir Fulke Greville, the Jacobean poet who restored Warwick Castle, was stabbed by his servant Ralph Haywood in 1628 and died weeks later; his ghost is said to haunt the Watergate Tower. Our Warwickshire and Visit Warwickshire both say the ghost is first recorded in the 1920s-30s, under an earl short of money, and that the tower opened as the 'Ghost Tower' in 1973. Visit Warwickshire adds that the murder happened in London, not Warwick.