White Webbs, Enfield Chase — the Gunpowder Plot's hiding place

London · United Kingdom · Forest

The house was pulled down in 1790, but its doorway and fireplace were built into the pub across the lane — where a little girl in a white dress runs through the kitchens.

On Enfield Chase stood a remote timber-framed house called White Webbs, built to hide people: trapdoors, concealed passages and priest holes where Catholic priests could vanish when the authorities came. In the autumn of 1605 Robert Catesby, Thomas Wintour, Francis Tresham and Thomas Bates came here again and again, and on 18 October Guy Fawkes rode out to White Webbs for a meeting about which Catholic lords should be warned away from the explosion of 5 November. The house was demolished in 1790 — but it did not vanish entirely. The doorway and fireplace of The King and Tinker across Whitewebbs Lane, Enfield's oldest pub, are believed to be parts of the old house, and there a little girl in a white dress is repeatedly reported running through the kitchens. The forest has grown over the foundations, and what remains is a silent parkland wood where the country's most notorious conspiracy took its final shape.

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White Webbs, Enfield Chase — the Gunpowder Plot's hiding place is in London, United Kingdom.

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