Ghost
The Grey Lady
Walled up alive, she walks still.
Stand where it happened
- What's there
- A dark gritstone manor house with rose windows above a river bend
- Legend from
- Local tradition
- Best time
- Autumn
- Tone
- Eerie
Bricked up behind a wall, she still walks the corridors looking for her lover.
East Riddlesden Hall is a 17th-century manor house near Keighley, run by the National Trust. Its best-known ghost is the Grey Lady. The Telegraph & Argus says that in the Civil War the man of the house returned from battle, found his wife had had an affair, killed her lover and bricked her up behind a wall to die slowly. She is said to roam the corridors seeking her lover, and a cradle has been seen rocking on its own. Wikipedia adds that the river Aire is said to have changed its course in shame at the Murgatroyd family's debauchery. In 2026 a National Trust officer told the BBC the ghost stories were invented in the 1990s.