Tamworth Castle - Staffordshire
Tamworth Castle with its well preserved multi-angled keep, has stood high on a mound overlooking the River Tame since the late 12th century.
The castle was first constructed in 913 by Alfred the Great's daughter then later, William the Conqueror, after his Norman Conquest, gave the land to his supporter Robert De Marmion who set about building the keep and curtain walls visible today.
The middle room of the Norman tower is known as the ghost room and in it, a ghostly Nun has been sighted.
She is known as for black lady of Tamworth. Apparently this goes back to when De Marmion expelled the nuns from the nearby convent at Polesworth when he built the castle.
The Black Lady is supposedly the ghost of a nun called Editha who founded her order in the 9th century. The nuns were said to have been expelled from their Convent by Robert de Marmion. The nuns in their angry prayers were said to have called Editha from beyond the grave. Legend has it that one night in 1139 after a lavish banquet, Marmion was attacked by Edithas ghost, who warned him that unless the nuns were restored their convent, the Baron would meet an untimely death. Just before she vanished the spectre hit the Baron on the side with the point of her crosier; the wound was so terrible that Marmion's cries awoke the whole Castle. His pain only ceased when this vow was taken and the nuns returned to Polesworth.