Gallops Cemetery

In this remote cemetery, enclosed by a beech hedge, are the graves of Norah Laye, the one-time estate owner, and her three husbands. They were all trainers in the village of Ogbourne Maisey. Norah and her sister inherited the village and its gallops following the death of their father George Edwardes, one of Britain's leading theatre impresarios who would often bring his gaiety girls to stay for a weekend. After Laye's first husband, Paddy Hartigan, died following a fall from the third floor of Liverpool's Adelphi Hotel in 1921, she married his brother Martin. After Martin died during World War II, she wed Rupert Laye.