We are pleased to announce another NEW location to Paranormal Tours. We will be running an event at Burton Court, nr Leominster on the 22nd November 2008.
This location looks and sounds fantastic!
The Manor of Burton is mentioned in the Domesday Book, the spelling being Beuretune, and is stated to be worth 2 hydes. It is probable the name Burton is of Saxon origin, being derived from the Saxon words Burh+ton, meaning fortified dwelling place.
The surviving rolls of the Manor began in the reign of Edward III, 1331, and it was here that Henry, Prince of Wales (later Henry V), stationed his troops to watch the movements of Owen Glendower. The most notable of the squires of Eardisland and Lords of the Manor of Burton were the Brewster and the Clowes families.
The Brewsters first appear in the middle of the 17th Century and remained in continuous occupation until 1865. Dr William Brewster was baptized at St Mary's, Eardisland in 1665. He was an eminent scholar of his time and when he died in 1715 he left some of his magificent collection of books to All Saints Church, Hereford, where they formed the famous chained library; now housed in Hereford Cathedral.
In 1865 the estate was bought by John Clowes, who was by all accounts a typical country gentleman of the Victorian era. John Clowes handed the estate over to his son, Colonel Peter Legh Clowes when his son married in 1895. He married a Miss Warren of the Warren Steamship Line, plying between Liverpool and Boston. The period between 1902 and 1914 may be considered the hey-day of Burton Court in recent times, when the court staff alone numbered around 23.
The Great War changed everything, Warren Peter Clowes, the only child of Colonel and Mrs. Clowes, was commissioned into his father's regiment, the 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars in 1916. On the 30th March, 1918, during the defense of Amiens, he was killed in action on the Western front near Warfussee, Abancourt, aged 20 years.
Colonel Clowes died in 1925, and his widow in November 1949. In May 1950 the estate 1,050 acres was broken up and sold in lots. Burton Court, with its stable block, servants hall, and 19 acres of land, was something of a white elephant in the 1950's. In 1960 it was bought by the present owner, Lieut. Cdr. Robert Macaulay Simpson, for use as a residence and for a soft fruit growing enterprise.
There have been a number of unexplained happenings over the years. An apparition was witnessed in the Billards Room, three different spirits witnessed in the Great Hall and a glass was once seen moving on its own accord in one of the bedrooms.
Other reported activity includes a nebulous of light about a meter in width moving down the corridor of the Norman cellars and taps and clicks heard on demand in the ground floor Regency Rooms.
For more information or to purchase tickets for this event please go to the link below. Or you can call 0871 288 4036.
BRINGING TWO WORLDS TOGETHER
