A Hike up Haughmond Hill

Ankareta.

One of Haughmond Abbey's secrets is a grave slab showing a woman called Ankareta.

Ankareta was the daughter of a man called John Leighton and the wife of Richard Mynde. Ankareta was actually an Anchorite, which means that she chose to spend time enclosed alone in the Abbey praying and meditating. The slab now lies in store, because it suffered repeated damage from vandals. This has not always been the case, in the 1960's Ankareta was on show to visitors of the Abbey.

Some people now think that they can see the ghost of Ankareta walking around Haughmond Abbey near to where her grave slab used to lie.