Staying in a haunted room at the New Forest Inn Lyndhurst

We arrived at the New Forest Inn at about 3pm and met with the lovely gentleman at the Bar who let us up to our room.

Of course we asked if there were any ghosts in the place and he said that he did believe in ghosts and he felt that there was a presence in the old Inn.

Later we headed down to dinner in the Pub section of the Inn and met a lady who had lives in the premises for 10 years.

She definitely said that the Inn was haunted and that Room number 2 (which we are in overnight - lucky us) was a place she had a number of incidences.

She told us that there was a man who would whisper, "I'm waiting".

Obviously a long dead husband still waiting for his wife to get ready to leave for the day.

She also mentioned that her mother had seen a ghost in the bathroom - OK - we are ready!

Bolton’s Bench, Lyndhurst

Bolton’s Bench on the edge of Lyndhurst is a famous local landmark, a small hill that is said to have grown from the corpse of a dragon (the Bisterne Dragon) who was killed in the 1400s by a knight called Sir Maurice de Berkley. After Sir Maurice killed the dragon (his dogs attacked the monster and were able to loosen a scale and leave a chink in his natural armour, which Sir Maurice could then shoot an arrow into) he stopped sleeping and eating, and 30 days later had crawled back up the hill to die, where his body and those of his two dogs (Grim and Holdfast) turned to the yew trees which are still growing there.

It is said that before he died de Berkley was able to take the dragon’s hoard of treasure, and with it his family rebuilt Bisterne Manor House, which has a depiction of the dragon and statues of his dogs.

Sir Maurice’s ghost can often be seen on top of the hill, and many people from down below see him with his dogs from a distance, only to watch them disappear as they climb up towards them. Some have sat at the bench at the top of the hill and had him sit next to them, or stand directly behind them amongst the trees. Many have heard his ghostly dogs barking, or seen them patrolling the vicinity and the nearby gardens, and as far as nearby Pondhead Enclosure and the grounds of the Limewood Hotel. It is said they are there guarding the corpse of the dragon, and that if they are ever exorcised it will rise again, to ravage the New Forest once more.

https://dayoutinengland.com/haunted-places-in-the-new-forest/

Also we visited the local graveyard at Lyndhurst and it was just gorgeous.

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