A Halloween Special
This house was originally the cemetery keeper's home on the site of the ruins of the 1214 Holy Ghost on Chapel Hill Basingstoke. Always fancied buying it, but it never came on the market at the right time.
The 'Voice of cricket' John Arlott was the son of the cemetery keeper and lived in the house for many years. For a small town graveyard it has a lot of notable inhabitants, amongst others: John Liddle a WW1 recipient of the Victoria Cross, Thomas Burberry founder of the Burberry empire, and Mrs Blunden who was buried alive here (twice), leading to the Victorian fashion of having some kind of external alarm that could be operated from inside a coffin.
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