Bolton Abbey, Skipton

In August 1912, while staying at Bolton Abbey Rectory during a shooting holiday with King George V, Lord Hartington—later Duke of Devonshire—claimed to see a ghostly monk standing in his bedroom doorway. The figure was short, aged about sixty-five, with a round, wrinkled face, a week’s stubble, and a hooded robe that appeared solid rather than spectral. The local Rector later confirmed he too had seen the same monk-like apparition, describing its face and beard in identical detail.