If you travel east along the M65, you will arrive in the picturesque village of Wycoller, near Colne, where the ruins of Wycoller Hall lie.

Charlotte Brontë kept Wycoller Hall alive as Ferndean Manor in Jane Eyre. And the village was later used in the film The Railway Children.

The story began with the untimely death of the squire's (one of the Cunliffe family) wife.

One story tells of how Mrs Cunliffe died (probably during the reign of Charles II 1660-85) after she saw a fox slayed beneath her feet. The accepted version is that the squire became so outraged, after he found his wife in the arms of another lover, that he whipped her to death.

The squire's wife is said to have predicted the extinction of the Cunliffe family - a prediction which came true when Henry Owen-Cunliffe, the last member of the family, died in 1819.

Just as Colin Veacock and Peter Crawley were about to leave the outlines of the scullery (after Peter set a tape deck in record mode on 26 July 1996) there was a sound similar to that of a riding crop.

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