The Ghost of Chambercombe Manor

Perched on the storm, lashed cliffs above Ilfracombe, where North Devon’s rugged coast meets the relentless Bristol Channel, Chambercombe Manor looms, a time-worn bastion of stone and secrets, its hidden room unveiled in 1865 to reveal a skeleton cradled in a four, poster bed, its bones whispering of a tragedy sealed centuries ago. In 1625, Lady Isabel Penrose concealed her daughter Cecily’s fevered death behind a false wall, her grief locking their story in the manor’s shadows, only for footsteps to pace the chapel corridors and moans to haunt the secret chamber, a ghostly lament that stirred the Trevelyan family and echoed through generations, binding the manor’s past to a spectral sorrow that lingers in the salt, soaked air.