Abbey House, Cambridge

[5][6] Local barrister Jacob Butler inherited the house and much of the surrounding land, which played host to the annual Stourbridge Fair, in 1714, but lost it in a legal dispute prior to his death in 1765.

[7] The house's reputation for being haunted came to local prominence during the occupancy of Prof. J. C. Lawson of Pembroke College from 1904 to 1910, on the family's first night in residence members of the household were reportedly woken at midnight by a crashing sound, and from 1907 onward, Lawson and others reported seeing the ghost of a nun wrapped in a dark robe, who failed to respond to questioning but stood at the foot of Mrs Lawson's bed sighing during a protracted illness, while children of another family resident in the house at that time reportedly received regular visitations from this nun, who they did not like very much.

[4] A local woman, who lived in the northern end of the house from 1904 to 1911, later reported that she had heard stories of the Grey Lady prior to her residency.

[8] The Lawsons and others also reported seeing ghostly animals in the house's gardens, including a well-fed red squirrel, which vanished when approached, and a large hare, which sat watching witnesses before disappearing.

[8] Urban Huttleston Broughton, 1st Baron Fairhaven of Anglesey Abbey gifted the house to the people of Cambridge at the end of World War II in celebration of the cessation of hostilities.