Most Haunted Place in England: The Borley Rectory

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Is the Borley Rectory haunted?
The derelict building in the photo above is not a place to enter lightly. Though the small village of Borley, near Sudbury, UK, is not the sort of place one would associate with ghosts, it has an awful reputation because it was the site of the infamous Borley Rectory, reputedly the ‘Most Haunted House in England’.

Built in 1863 for the Reverend Henry Bull, it sits on the site of an ancient monastery. The ghost of a mournful nun who patrolled the so-called ‘Nun’s Walk’ had often been seen there.

An old tale claimed that she had fallen in love with a monk from the Borley Monastery – to much outrage – and the two had tried to elope together but had been quickly tracked down. The monk was executed and the nun bricked up in the cellars of the monastic buildings.

The ghost stories began to surface when the Daily Mirror ran a story in 1929 titled “Tales of Headless Coachmen and a Lonely Nun”. It was shortly after that a soon-to-be famous paranormal researcher named Harry Price visited the home to investigate.

The opinions seem mixed and varied on whether the "nun" story is actually true. Some claim that there is no historical evidence that it ever happened and others claim that it did and the site is indeed haunted.

Borley Rectory was destroyed by fire in 1939 and finally demolished in 1944 but the ghost and the stories of the haunted old house still live on.



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