Comments on: Where did Ghost Hill get its name?

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:05:19 +0000

Hi Peter, the woods are still there but all the fields have been long built on (in the early 90's). It's only just occured to me that a map dated 1891 refers to Ghost Hill Plantation, but this story about Ghost Hill would be from 1914-1918... So the name must predate that. Happy memories!

By: Peter Wilson

Peter Wilson — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 16:29:47 +0000

As a child (age 10) i used to live in cyprus close until 1980. We used to go across the fields to Ghost Hill wood and would often look for people who had metal dectors to see what they could find. The stories of a practice range were the same as we were told which is why peple went their with thier metal detectors.

However the story we were always told was about the hanging man not found for months.

Now as a kid we used to be able to scare ourselves quite easily… but sometimes the metal detectors would go mad.

I have not been back to that area since 1980 and looking on Google maps looks like the whole area is now houses, whch was always going to be the case as there was a road put thru the fields unmade for years. But a shame if the actual wood has been lost.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:55:23 +0000

I used to live in Drayton in the 80s before all the new houses were built. The locals told me that Ghost Hill got its name from a battle the Saxons had with the Danes, way back. I seem to recall being told that on a foggy night you can still hear the Vikings banging the flat of their swords against their shields.

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