Guys Cliffe House
WARWICK, WARWICKSHIRE
In the heart of Warwickshire straddling a natural sandstone ridge lies the truly haunted house of Guys Cliffe.
Around 600 A.D. this hallowed site was converted from it's pagan associations to those of Christianity and
ecclesiastical occupancy soon followed. In later centuries a great house would arise to dominate the surrounding
landscape but it's fortunes would eventually falter. Now vacant and part-ruined none but the dead may walk it's
grounds by night. Here the famous Guy of Warwick found refuge in a cave hewn out by his own hands and here he died
to the lament of his wife the fair Felice who threw herself from the cliff at the site and whose shade is said to
be seen re-living her despair. From the early small chapel to the great stone house of the late 1700's with it's
possible slavery connection the estate blossomed but of late and within less than a lifetime it would suffer
greatly. After acting as a wounded soldiers' hospital during the Great War the house saw it's last real resident
die within it's walls in 1933. It still found a use though and became a boys home during WWII but would be
abandoned not long after that. The elements, long running vandalism, a gut-wrenching auction of it's character and
finally a devastating fire destroyed it's once lavish grandeur. Forgotten by many it now sits almost out-of-time,
it's walls harbour echoes of those long gone, it's dark passages dare you to explore and more mysteries arise from
looking than are answered. This place is home to a great spiritual mystery with the power to match this evocative
location and is considered by our team to be the most potent location we have yet encountered.
|