IT’S a site with connections to Jane Eyre and which is rumoured to be haunted.
Taken in 1982, this photograph shows the ruins of Wycoller Hall which dates back to the 16th Century.
The hall is believed is thought to have been the inspiration for Ferndean Manor in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre.
The ghost of a former owner of the hall, Simon Cunliffe, is said to have appeared on numerous occasions. He was out hunting when the fox ran into the hall and into his wife’s bedchamber. He is reported to have ridden into the hall and threatened to strike his wife with his riding crop as he was annoyed at her being frightened of a fox when she supposedly died of fright.
Death duties in the 19th Century were the beginning of the end for the hall with the ruins now a scheduled monument and part of the Wycoller country park.
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