This alley in Lower Harlow follows the old lychway to St Mary’s Church, and runs past a new upmarket housing project which the developers - presumably with little understanding of the provenance or significance of the nomenclature they have employed - have named ‘Lychgate Manor’. More of this in a later post. For now it is enough to know that the alleyway which meanders past the Lychgate Manor development has a reputation for being the haunt of ghostly apparitions, and site of spectral manifestations, of various kinds. This is, perhaps, unremarkable given the history which underlies the alley; indeed, those residents of Harlow Hill who have lived in the area for the better part of their lives - and are respectful of the antiquity and traditions of the locale - have largely remained undisturbed by the odd things occasionally seen or heard in and around the site. For their part, whatever phantasmal presences make claim to this territory seem not to exhibit any malign intent towards the long-term inhabitants of Lower Harlow; their intentions towards the perceived interlopers of the Lychgate Manor development may, however, be a very different matter.
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