History & Haunting of : Holy Trinity Church, Coverham,North Yorkshire, England,U.k A Black Lady walks from the church over the moor towards Middlesham. The ghost is said to be that of a woman whose body was discovered by peat diggers about fifty years ago. ........ Coverham is a village in Coverdale on the border of the Yorkshire Dales,It lies only a mile west of the town, Middleham. Holy Trinity Church, Coverham, is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Coverham, North Yorkshire, England. It is designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.The church stands near the ruins of the Premonstratensian Coverham Abbey, and not far from the River Cover. Coverham Church - small, grey, lovely and redundant. For somewhere with a regular ghost it has a surprisingly happy atmosphere, and there’s usually a few sheep cropping the graveyard grass. If you’ve timed your journey right you might pass a woman in a black shawl walking from the churchyard – where she spends most of her time lying in her grave. She is making for the gates of Cotescue Park to wait for her long dead lover. She was thought to be no more than a figment of the imagination until a few years ago when some turf cutters unearthed a corpse in a shallow grave up on the moor. What caught their attention particularly – apart from the fact that they were looking at a dead body rather than the usual lump of peat – was that the corpse was wrapped in a black lace shawl. The story had been around in the Dale for a couple of hundred years, how a poor but beautiful girl, who wore a black lace shawl, had fallen in love with the son of the squire and met him on many a dark night while their respective parents slept. One dreadful day, however, a girl who also fancied the job of Mrs Future Squire put a spanner in the works and told the lad that his girlfriend was playing footsie with someone else. Overcome with jealousy and rage he waited for his lover that night, blunt instrument in hand, and did her in, before hauling her still-warm body up to the moor and dumping it in a shallow grave. When she eventually came out of the ground she was reburied at Coverham but, when the time is right, still rises from the grave to seek her lover. This story comes from#ianscottmassie/ This church dates from the 13th century. According to Edmund Bogg in “From Eden Vale to the plains of York or A Thousand Miles in the Valleys of the Nidd and Yore (1894) “In Coverham churchyard a person may stand whilst the bells are ringing and neither see the Church nor hear the bells ; this is caused by an abrupt declivity in one corner of the graveyard, and the sound of bells are destroyed by the noise of the falling waters of a brook which turn a mill wheel close by” He also mentions as appoint of interest that somewhere within the churchyard is a man who actually dug his own grave. The bells were not ringing when I visited so I could not test the accustics of the graveyard, which happens to be the last resting place of many of my distant Topham relatives. mysteriousbritain.co.uk The church dates from the 13th century, the nave and the south wall of the chancel probably being built at this time. It is thought that the south aisle was added during the following century, and the west tower was built in the 15th century. Restorations were carried out in 1854 and 1878. Holy Trinity was declared redundant on 1 September 1985, and was vested in the Trust on 10 June 1987. en.wikipedia.org Photo 1 and 4 by Arkright.flickr- Photo 2 & 3 by picturesofengland-
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