Abandoned British Mansion | Hampton Gay | England

Sitting in a field in the English countryside is an abandoned mansion that was constructed in the 1550s. These remains are sitting on land rich with history, some of it pretty dark, which I’ll get into.
Welcome to the abandoned Hampton Gay Manor House.
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The de Gay family were owners of two properties here in the 12th and 13th centuries - the village name combines their surname with the Old English word for a village or farm. Boom, Hampton Gay.
In 1544 this land was purchased by John Barry, a wealthy glover, who built the manor house…so this really should be John Barry Manor House if anything but whatever. If you think it looks awesome now, check out this illustration of it from back then - what a beauty. Oh yeah, this was a gorgeous place, but what happened here soon after was pretty ugly.
Cue the Oxfordshire rising. In 1596 the Barry family closed off land at Hampton Gay for sheep pasture, and by this time it was John’s Grandson Vincent who lived in the Manor. The villagers, unable to till the land for their own produce, faced starvation, and many joined a revolt. The plan was for the villagers to come together to murder Vincent Barry and his daughter, but this was foiled when the village carpenter turned informant. One of the ringleaders of the revolt received the barbaric sentence of being hanged, drawn and quartered. Bloody hell Barry, jeez.
In 1682 the Barry family faced financial hardships and sold the manor - which would change hands several times through the centuries. The local economy was supported heavily by a nearby paper mill on the River Cherwell. Now, remember this paper mill, because it becomes important later - hey I’m not joking, remember this paper mill. Bloody hell.
Anyway, this mill employed most of the people in the area and they were by most accounts pretty content. At some point though, the village vanished, and today the only reminders of the community that once lived here are the manor remains and, in the same field, the church of St Giles. The area here is effectively a ghost town.
So what happened?
Well, once the late 1800s came around, a lot of bad things happened here in a short amount of time. Things that would define and shape the future of Hampton Gay.
The first event was on December 24 1874 - the Shipton-on-Cherwell train crash - one of the worst ever disasters on the Great Western Railway, just a few hundred yards from Hampton Gay. In the early hours of Christmas Eve 1874, a passenger train with 13 carriages carrying 260 people was derailed after a tire failed and engineers tried to stop the train too quickly.
It seems that train crash was the beginning of the end for this village. In the years that followed the Paper Mill was damaged by a series of fires, until it finally went bankrupt and was closed for good in 1887 and demolished shortly after, ending employment for dozens of workers. After its closure, the population of Hampton Gay fell to 30.
Unfortunately, the manor house had an equally terrible year. With many urban legends saying the land was cursed after the train crash.
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