I am still near, Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth.[64
- Date of account
- Late nineteenth-century compilation
- Source
- The Ghost World
- Reference
- The Ghost World · selected passage 225
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
The old parsonage at Market, or East, Lavington, near Devizes--now pulled down--was reputed to be haunted by a lady supposed to have been murdered, and, it has been said, a child came also to an untimely end in the house
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyThe old parsonage at Market, or East, Lavington, near Devizes--now pulled down--was reputed to be haunted by a lady supposed to have been murdered, and, it has been said, a child came also to an untimely end in the house. Previous to 1818, a correspondent of 'Notes and Queries' (5 S. i. 273) says: 'A witness states his father occupied the house, and writes "that in that year on Feast Day, being left alone in the house, I went up to my room. It was the one with marks of blood on the floor. I distinctly saw a white figure glide into the room. It went round by the washstand by the bed, and there disappeared."' It may be added that part of the road leading from Market Lavington to Easterton, which skirts the grounds of Fiddington House, used to be looked upon as haunted by a lady, who was known as the 'Easterton Ghost.' In 1869, a wall was built round the road-side of the pond; and, close to the spot where the lady was seen, two skeletons were disturbed--one of a woman, the other of a child.
Historical context
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Modern context
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