BERRY POMEROY
Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon. Ruin of Pomeroy and Seymour stone. English Heritage keeps the masonry. Guidebooks sell a White Lady and a Blue Lady. Colours are folklore labels. No tagged bones.
003°38'00 W
1. Public Record
Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon, above a wooded valley. A ruin with two families in the stone, Pomeroy and Seymour. Edward Seymour takes it after the Pomeroys fall. The masonry is what English Heritage keeps. Guidebooks sell a White Lady and a Blue Lady, a baby, a tower no one likes at dusk. The colours are folklore labels. They are not inquests.
Night teams bring meters and leave with cold spots. No bones that match either lady. No date that pins a murder to a named stair. The ruin earns its talk by being a ruin: empty windows, a drop, a valley that holds sound. Visitors come for the script. The walls do not have to play along.
A ruin. Two colours of dress. A tower that earns its rumour by being a tower.
2. Date of Incident
Folklore across centuries. Modern watches from the late twentieth. Stone older than the ladies' names.
3. Location
Berry Pomeroy, Devon. Approximate 50°26 N 003°38 W.
4. Official Narrative
Scheduled ruin. Official narrative is tourism and stone, not a coroner.
5. Witness Layer
Guides. Visitors. Night teams with meters.
White Lady and Blue Lady.
6. Recovery Logistics
No remains tagged to either lady. Meters of no legal weight.
7. Assessment
A ruin file. Keep the two families in the stone. Keep the two colours as folklore labels. Do not write a confirmed murder from a guidebook. Do not write a meter as a verdict. The valley will make a sound whether or not a lady is walking.
8. Materials & Remains
The castle. Guide copy. Meter logs.
9. Key Personnel
Pomeroy / Seymour lines : The stone.
Guides : The names.
10. Aftermath
The ruin stays a ticket. The ladies stay a script. The walls stay walls.
11. Current Archive Status
Status: Devon ruin. Two ladies in talk. No tagged bones. Masonry official.
Confidence: High that the castle is a ruin with a long dark reputation. Low that either lady is a documented death with a date. Low that instruments have added a body.
Filing note
Two families in one ruin, a guidebook with colours for dresses, a tower that is only a tower, meters that click, a heritage body that will maintain the walls and will not maintain the ghosts.
English Heritage keeps the masonry. That sentence is the adult in the room.