Old Haunts #1 The Black Lady of Boverton Traditional Cache
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Old Haunts #1 The Black Lady of Boverton
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The first of our Old Haunts Series visiting spooky sites in the Vale, that can be done in any order. You are looking for a small Screw lid container with room for small swaps. Please replace the cache how you found it. Please keep young children close by as it is just off the road. There is plenty of parking close by just down the road.
During the reign of Richard I, the so called Boverton Castle was the property of the Earl of Gloucester, whose daughter Hadwisa became the wife of Prince John. When, about ten years later, John divorced Hadwisa of Gloucester, so that he could marry Isabella of Angoulême, his wife, who has been described as amiable and affectionate, retired to the seclusion of Boverton Castle. According to local tradition, King John once fled from his barons, and was sheltered in Boverton Castle by the gentle woman he had wronged. Early in the nineteenth century men were employed to dismantle part of this castle. One dark hazy day they saw a tall, shadowy female figure, dressed in deep widows mourning of antique design. Her face was scarcely visible, but her long dark hair fell in neatly braided tresses down to her waist. She wandered from room to room in a slow, disconsolate manner, and occasionally her sobs and sighs broke the silence. At first the workmen were greatly frightened, but as during the progress of the work they frequently saw this apparition little heed was taken of it. One of the men mentioned the circumstance to a very aged person in the district and was told: "Oh, she is Wissie, the Kings widow. I've often seen her." May not this dark lady have been Hadwisa of Gloucester? When the dismantling of the old castle was completed the dark apparition vanished, but for long years afterwards people declared the black lady haunted Boverton Castle.
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