South Mimms

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General
St Albans Road
St Giles
Vicarage
The Wash

A brief note about the area
A ghostly man with a long grey beard
Strange sounds and blue lights from a tomb
A tall ghost in a grey dress on the stairs
A figure that was half-man and half-beast
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General

After the Battle of Hastings the land on which South Mimms stands was given to Geoffrey de Mandeville by William the Conqueror.

In the Domesday Book of 1086 South Mimms is recorded as a berewic (Old English for a corn farm) to the Manor of Edmonton. Fifty years later in 1136 South Mimms appears for the first time as a separate parish.

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St Albans Road

A ghostly man, bent with old age and with a long grey beard waits at the crossroads in the centre of the village. As people pass by he raises his stick as if in salute.

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St Giles

A parishioner whilst in St Giles church noticed a priest kneeling by the altar rail. He thought little of it until the priest rose and walked straight through the vestry door. The churchyard has also been the site of paranormal activity with several people hearing strange sounds emanating from one of the tombs. The same tomb had strange blue lights moving back and forth over it.

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Vicarage

In the late twentieth century the vicar at South Mimms kept complaining of being woken up during the early hours of the night when he was living in the fourteenth century vicarage. He felt the presence of something in the room and later discovered that a murder had taken place there.

In the late seventeenth century the vicar finally lost his temper with his quarrelsome wife and beat her to death with the poker. When the twentieth century vicar’s aunt came to stay she said that she had seen a tall woman wearing a grey dress walk down the stairs. Over the years the grey lady had been seen by several people including the nurses at a nearby sanatorium at the start of the 1900s.

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The Wash

In the mid 1900s a man was crossing The Wash when he saw a figure that was half man and half beast rise from the ground. The figure then leapt over the bridge and disappeared into the mist beneath. The man decided not to stop and investigate; instead he quit the area as fast as his legs would carry him.

The Wash lies beside the old Roman road which in the early 1900s was an area of low lying swampy ground which had an eerie feel about it especially after dark.

In the autumn of 1930 the body of a tramp was discovered in a field nearby. The man had died from heart failure but that didn’t stop the locals from saying that he had been murdered. As a result the rumour spread and people began to insist that the area was haunted by ghostly lights and a headless man.

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