Ghosts and Major's Leap
Wilderhope Manor has a history of supernatural sightings dating back to the English Civil War. One of the Manor’s former owners was Major Thomas Smallman. He was a Royalist soldier who was forced to flee from Cromwell’s approaching troops. After managing to escape on horseback, Major Smallman took a do-or-die plunge down a steep slope at nearby Wenlock Edge. His horse didn’t make it but Smallman survived thanks to an apple tree breaking his fall. Since then the ghosts of Smallman and his horse are said to appear in an area now known as Major’s Leap and have also been seen at the manor.
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