BOSTON MANOR HOUSE

Boston Manor House is haunted by the ghost of Lady Boston, who was murdered by her husband when he discovered her writing a secret love letter to Lord Fairfax. Lord Boston was said to have already known that the two were having a love affair and that whilst he was away, Lady Boston would leave the house from a door at the back and meet her lover at a cypress tree in the garden. After killing his wife, Lord Boston threw her body into the river but it is said that it was washed ashore onto the banks. Lord Boston then buried the body under the cypress tree. The skeleton of a woman was discovered by nuns of a Roman Catholic order, who occupied the house before the Second World War, and the remains were re-buried in an ivy-covered mound The ghost of Lady Boston has been seen several times, wandering from the rear of the house and walking towards the cypress tree, presumably once again keeping an appointment with her beloved Lord Fairfax. She is always seen to vanish when she reaches the tree.