The Legend of the Ghostly White Lady of Over Court

Discover the chilling tale of the Ghost of the White Lady of Over Court in this captivating article. Prepare to be spooked!

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1. AS

   On Tuesday 12th of March 2024, Adrian Shiner said

   My wife and I saw the ghost walking along the road past Over Court late at night whilst travelling to our home. She was in front of me and I braked to drive around her. We stopped and looked back up the road but she had gone. That was around 1973.

2. DC

   On Wednesday 6th of September 2023, Debbie chaplin said

   I grow up in blakeney road patchway in the 1970,I grow up there,and me and my friends use to come to see the old remains ,but went one night at 12 o’clock at night and show a white figure by the pond it wasn’t for long.but as you can understand we were only young at this time,so we all ran away scared,there were many story’s of the white lady.but she is part of are lives,she will always remain there,and I no now that this mansion is built there now,but she will still been seen walking around,the soul of are white lady stays there,and I loved being a part of all this growing up over the banana bridge and walking down to now is a mansion built,I loved going over there,where a lot of us did when we were growing up there,in patchway,wonderful memories

3. DA

   On Tuesday 5th of September 2023, Dan said

   I lived in and grew up in Patchway, I went to Coniston Infants and through Coniston Junior School and eventually saw my days out at school at Patchway High School class of 99

   I can remember the junior school was very close to the Banana Bridge, or Rainbow Bridge as others called it.

   It's now been knocked down and has a steel frame structure bridge replacing it.

   So anyway we were out playing, I can remember it was a boiling hot summers day, dinner time, the good old days.

   There was a hump of grass on the playing field.

   I can remember all of a sudden watching a big group of kids from the school running over and some just staring quietly and shocked towards the motorway and bridge.

   There was an airy atmosphere in the air for such a lovely day and a ghost sighting at this time of the day would be dismissed as daft.

   But read on I can assure you this is a real story.

   So at this time, I can remember going over to see what all the fuss was about to be told the ghostly figure of the White Lady was seen on the bridge, and you could tell it wasn't made up as no one was joking about it, some kids even looked shocked and ran away.

   Ever since that day, still to this day, being a 40-year-old man being petrified of the thought of crossing that bridge at night and down that hill down towards Cattybrook brickworks.

   Although I got over to the hill on the playing field too late to see with my own eyes, it's stuck with me and after seeing this site after goggle searching and reading about this local ghost.

   As time went on I've heard storys of her waiting for a loved one to come back, and she hangs round some sort of drinking whale, wearing a white wedding dress. But it's all a mystery.

   I thought I would share this with anyone interested in her, a little bit of my memories and a story that I can remember clearly still after all these years.

4. JO

   On Friday 15th of November 2019, John said

   I heard the story of the White Lady back in the late 50s'. In my childhood I lived at Patchway not far from Over Court. We visited the large pond to the south of the house to fish, were often chased of by the old couple that lived there. We knew about the ghost even in 1960 and even ventured to look through a window for it. It was dark and tatty inside the room, an old man was sat in a chair and shouted at us to clear off. Another time we crept round the garden by the clock tower. Father said the Americans were billeted there during the war and had heard they wreaked the place. They stripped wood panels for the fire and uses statues round the pond for target practice. You could see plinths where statues once rested. He believed the family name was Lepingcote (?) and moved out to a cottage up on the hill while the Americans were there. By mid 60's the cottage was a ruin. We never saw the ghost but had fun looking but we were sure she exists. . .