Black Dick’s Tower, The Folly, Whitley Beaumont Temple, or just, The Temple, is an 18th Century ruin that sits in what used to be the Whitley Beaumont estate near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.

The legend goes that this once grand structure is haunted by the ghost of Richard Beaumont, who lost his head (literally) in a duel over bad debts.

But how much of the story is actually true?

SOURCES

📚 Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of All the Orders of Chivalry Volume One by William A Shaw

💻 https://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/beaumont-sir-richard-1574-1631

💻 https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2022/07/518-beaumont-of-whitley-beaumont.html

💻 https://huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Whitley_Hall,_Whitley_Beaumont_Estate,_Whitley_Upper

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