Tattershall Castle is a great brick tower built in the mid-fifteenth century for Ralph Cromwell, Lord Treasurer of England, and stands today as one of the earliest and most important brick buildings anywhere in the country, a genuinely significant piece of medieval architectural history later rescued from near-demolition in the early twentieth century and now cared for by the National Trust for future generations to visit.
Local ghost tradition holds that a White Lady walks its battlements after dark, drifting along the same high walkways where medieval guards would once have kept watch over the surrounding fenland, in keeping with a very common English castle-ghost archetype found attached to fortified sites right across the country.
Given the castle's real architectural and historical importance, well documented through Cromwell's own considerable wealth and status as Lord Treasurer, the haunting itself is by contrast thinly detailed and best treated as a traditional local addition to a genuinely significant building rather than as a well-evidenced case in its own right, no clearly documented identity or historical incident being attached to the White Lady beyond the bare tradition itself.
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