Billingham Manor
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Billingham Manor is a manor house
in Chillerton, on the Isle of Wight
. Considered to be one of the island's antiquities, it is a Grade II* listed building since 1951.
It was the seat of the Worsley family, and owned at one time by a Mrs. Lawrence. British novelist, poet, writer and reviewer Olivia Manning
was cremated and her ashes buried at the manor.At the time it was rented by Sir Shane Leslie, Billingham was regarded as the most haunted house on the Island.
Manor house
A manor house is a country house that historically formed the administrative centre of a manor, the lowest unit of territorial organisation in the feudal system in Europe. The term is applied to country houses that belonged to the gentry and other grand stately homes...
in Chillerton, on the Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island of England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2–4 miles off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent...
. Considered to be one of the island's antiquities, it is a Grade II* listed building since 1951.
It was the seat of the Worsley family, and owned at one time by a Mrs. Lawrence. British novelist, poet, writer and reviewer Olivia Manning
Olivia Manning
Olivia Mary Manning CBE was a British novelist, poet, writer and reviewer. Her fiction and non-fiction, frequently detailing journeys and personal odysseys, were principally set in England, Ireland, Europe and the Middle East. She often wrote from her personal experience, though her books also...
was cremated and her ashes buried at the manor.At the time it was rented by Sir Shane Leslie, Billingham was regarded as the most haunted house on the Island.