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Ghostly Procession

In 1253, Sir John Mansell, a priest's son who later became chancellor to Henry III, founded a monastery, this became Bilsington Priory. In the 1930s part of the building was inhabited by a farmer and his wife. A couple driving out in their pony and trap had a mishap one day when one of the animals lost a shoe, so they stopped at the Priory and asked for help.

While the husband went off with the farmer's wife to get the pony re-shoed, his wife sat alone in one of the Priory rooms. She described seeing a procession of Augustinian monks who seemed to be climbing a flight of hidden steps through a thick fog.

When the farmer's wife returned, she told the terrified woman that she and her husband could tell the time by the footsteps of the ghostly monks, for they walked in procession every evening at six o'clock.