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The rectory was built in 1863 on the site of an old Benedictine monastery, for a Reverend H D E Bull and his family, in 1892 the reverend died in the blue room, and his son Harry Bull inherited it, in 1927 Harry passed away also in the blue room. A year later the Reverend Eric Smith and his wife moved in, and stayed for three years. Then in October 1930 the house for the next five years belonged to Reverend L A Foster and his wife, after this it was leased for a year by Henry Price. The last person to own and live there was Captain William Gregson, and in 1939 he accidentally turned over a oil lamp and the building quickly set on fire, the damage was vast and unrepairable. the ruin was demolished in 1944.
Borely rectory was know as the most haunted house in Britain and even though the building does not exist still , the site where it was can still be seen. The things that have been reported by different people over the many decades are a nun walking the grounds of the rectory who is thought to be from the 13th century, many footsteps have been heard, phantom coaches with their horses have been seen and heard, the doorbell ringing even though noone was there, stones being thrown and glasses being smashed, even though it has now gone strange things are said to still happen and recent phenomena is said to have happened in the parish church.
Henry Price who leased the property for a year was a Daily Mirror reporter and had stayed for three days before at the rectory due to the then owners getting into contact because of strange things happening, and he came back to stay to do a proper full investigation, these results were published in The Most Haunted House in Britain.
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