Langton Hall lies to the west of the villages of Church Langton and East Langton, its grounds thought to have been landscaped during the eighteenth century by the Reverend William Hanbury, incumbent of Church Langton from 1753 onward, a genuine piece of documented local ecclesiastical and landscape history. Its ghost story is unusually benevolent compared to most hall hauntings recorded throughout this collection: a former owner, Barbara Cullings, told the Leicester Chronicle that the hall's own phantom woman in white would appear specifically to people who were genuinely ill, and was said to actively heal them rather than frighten them in any way.
The story's best documented episode by far comes from the Second World War, when the hall was requisitioned for use by the military and the white lady was reportedly seen on five separate occasions by soldiers convalescing there, a wartime hospital setting that gave her healing reputation a genuinely appropriate and practical context in which to manifest.
Beyond that specific wartime cluster of sightings, though, the ghost's own actual origins and identity are never explained in any of the sources available for this entry, leaving Langton Hall's White Lady as a genuinely distinctive but thinly sourced local tradition, remembered warmly for what she reportedly did for the wounded soldiers who saw her rather than for any developed personal history explaining who she might have been in life.
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