A correspondent who went to see Baynards, an Elizabethan house near Cranley in Surrey built by a descendant of Sir Thomas More, sent Hone an account of it in 1831. The farmer’s wife who showed him round took him up to a gallery a hundred feet long at the top of the house, where, she said, an annual cricket match used to be played by the men of Rudgwick against the men of Cranley. A ghost was also said to walk there, in the form of an old lady carrying her own head in a basket.
The Ghost in the Baynards Gallery
Printed under 11 August · Baynards, near Cranleigh, Surrey
Lore and belief
A ghost also was said to walk here (of course such a place could not be without one), in the form of an old lady carrying her own head in a basket.
From Hone's Year Book, cols. 933-934. Read the original
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