| The name “Creslow” is said to be a corruption of “Christ’s Low” (or meadow) and in 1120 the land was owned by the Knights Templars, later passing to the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem. At the Dissolution the property passed to the Crown. In 1653 the property was leased to Cornelius Holland but he was forced to return it to the Crown on the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 and in the same year it was leased to Sir Thomas Clifford it is the ghost of Rosamund Clifford that haunts Creslow, or to be more precise one of the bedrooms there. She has sometimes been seen but more often heard, with her light footsteps and the rustle of her silk dress. It was in the 1850’s that the most famous manifestation of the lady occurred. |
