As with many large country houses they come with their own stories and legends, but before we tell you ours a little bit of history.

Hangar Manor is now a small holiday park located just north of Bodmin near the North Cornwall coast. In 1327 the 35-acres of land which is now the Holiday Park belonged to someone named Lawrence de Hengar.

In 1620 a mansion house was built on the site, This earlier house together with the land, formed a parcel of the manor of Penrose Burden in St Breward parish, but after a terrible fire on the 12th November 1904, the mansion house was totally destroyed, Sir William Onslow who owned the property set about building himself a new gothic style house made from granite with a steeply pitched slate roof, which is what you see today.

The manor house which is a large impressive symmetrical Country house is now converted and part of the holiday complex. The central entrance is through a single storey porch and leads directly into the huge reception hall which is heated at either end by fireplaces and lit from front and rear by large windows. The impressive imperial stair rises from opposite the entrance, continuing to the right and left across the rear wall up to the landings which gives access to the main reception rooms on the first floor.

The entrance hall remains largely unaltered although the reception rooms and service wing has had some alterations with removal and insertion of partitions.
The earlier house at Hengar together with the land, formed a parcel of the manor of Penrose Burden in St Breward parish.

We promised a ghost story or legend, well as with all old houses Hengar is no different and has its share of ghost stories. One such story is ‘The Grey Lady’.
Legend has it that ‘The grey lady’ is said to walk from room to room and onto the landing. She is thought to have lived before the time of the fire. But when the house was rebuilt the floor level was raised, and so those that have seen her say she is only visible from the knees up!