Thornholme Priory was a medieval Augustinian house near Broughton, of which little now survives above ground beyond scattered earthworks marking out where its buildings once stood, and local ghost-tour material describes it as a haunted site without giving a great deal of specific detail to work with: no named figure, no particular incident, and no date attached to any of the general claims.
Just a broad and general reputation for hauntings attached to the priory ruins in the way that abandoned religious sites across England very often accumulate over time, the mere fact of ruined monastic stonework seemingly enough on its own to generate this kind of vague atmospheric tradition regardless of any specific event behind it.
The story is included here honestly as thin, undocumented local tradition rather than as a well-evidenced case in its own right, representative of how a genuinely interesting piece of monastic archaeology can pick up a vague 'haunted' label over time without there being much of substance actually behind that label when examined closely.
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