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Millbrook
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General
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A brief note about the area
The Galleytrot The ghost of a monk Galloping Dick Strange noises - Paranormal or not? A headless ghost on horseback Numerous tales from one point on the road |
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Millbrook lies close to Ampthill and to the west. It is a very attractive village with a population of just 130.
A tale exists in Millbrook of an unfortunate woman who met the apparition of a black dog. It is said that to meet one of these hounds means a death in the family. The poor girl was dead within three days. The hounds are a fearsome sight with red glowing eyes and as big as a calf. Stories of such beasts are rife throughout East Anglia with spectral hell-hounds being sometimes called galleytrots.
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At one time the rector at Millbrook was the Reverend Ben Cotton. His daughter, Elizabeth, once saw the ghost of a monk while she was living at the rectory. She said that she saw a cowled figure bending over her bed but thought it was her father. Later she found that her father had not been into her room.
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In the village the sound of horses’ hooves can be heard racing down the road but nothing has ever been seen. It is thought that the ghost is Galloping Dick a highwayman who preyed on coaches travelling along the Woburn Road. Dick lived in a tumbledown dwelling by the sandpit on Millbrook Hill and was eventually caught and hung for his crimes. Another ghostly rider haunts the road to Millbrook station but this may be the same ghost.
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For quite a while the church in Millbrook rang to the strange sounds of cracking noises (said to sound like whips) and groans. A spectral glow was also seen emanating from the church when it should have been empty. Most of these events were attributed to the Huetts who had lived in a grand Tudor home in Millbrook, and whose tomb was in Millbrook Church. In 1857 it became necessary to do some restoration work on the church and the effigies of William and Mary Huett had to be removed. The tomb was dismantled and for financial reasons it was never rebuilt. The two effigies remained inside the church but villagers came to believe that they were angry which is why the noises started.
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The winding road that runs between Millbrook and the Railway station is haunted by a headless horseman. Also in the village the sound of horses’ hooves can be heard but nothing has ever been seen. It is possible that both ghosts are Galloping Dick a highwayman who preyed on coaches travelling along the Woburn Road. Dick lived in a tumbledown dwelling by the sandpit on Millbrook Hill and was eventually caught and hung for his crimes.
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Long ago people returning from the Millbrook feast would walk along the path from the public house on Woburn Road past All Saints Church. The point at which the path met the Woburn Road had many strange tales associated with it. One tale involved a mother and her child who, one night, passed a pile of stones and saw them rise up into the air and whirl around. Another woman saw a large black shape jump over a three metre high hedgerow and land in the road without making a sound. Yet another event was reported by a man who said that he had been followed by a strange light which had appeared by the aforementioned hedgerow, followed him for a while and then disappeared. By far the strangest tale must be of a man who climbed a stile near the same spot then suddenly found himself in Clophill.
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