Three Grisly things to look out for

• The Body in the Oven: Sir Edward Hungerford's second wife, Agnes Cottell, was a widow - but only because she murdered her first husband, who may have been Edward's steward. Trial records state that 'the body…(was) put into a certain fire in the furnace of the kitchen in the castle of Farley…and did burn and consume'. After Sir Edward died in 1522, Agnes and her two accomplices were tried, found guilty, and hanged. You can see the remains of the kitchens in the north-west corner of the castle.
• The Lady in the Tower: Sir Edward's son, Lord Walter, kept his wife Elizabeth locked in a tower. She wrote in 1539 that she was 'continually locked in one of my Lord's towers in his castle…these three or four years past…under the custody of my Lord's Chaplain, which has once or twice hereforeto poisoned me'. She claimed that she'd been reduced to drinking her own urine, and that without help from local women who brought food and drink to her windows, she would have starved to death. Tradition holds that her prison was in the Lady Tower, but it's more likely that she was held in the now-ruined north-west tower.
• The Coffins with Faces: There are eight human-shaped lead coffins in a crypt under the chapel. These rare survivals contain the remains of Sir Edward Hungerford III and the family of his successor, Sir Edward IV, and date from the second half of the 17th century. Incredible, 19th century tourists are reported to have drilled holes through the lead and used straws to get a taste of the embalming fluid.