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The White Hart, Minster Lovell

The White Hart, Minster Lovell

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A Broken Heart at the White Hart, Minster Lovell

3 March 2021 (Updated 28 January 2026)

This 15th-century coaching inn is home to the ghost of a young Victorian woman who hanged herself in one of the rooms after a broken love affair.

The ghost of Rosalind

The ghost, referred to locally as Rosalind or Rosaline, is sometimes seen but more often merely heard, the sound of her weeping echoing through the corridors of the inn.

When she is seen, it is usually near the spiral staircase that leads up to the loft where she ended her life. She is described as wearing a veil and covering her face with her hands as she bitterly weeps.

There are also reports of poltergeist activity which are blamed on Rosalind, with glasses disappearing, barrels being knocked over and the bell in the bar inexplicably ringing of its own accord.

Sources

  1. 'Haunted Inns and Taverns' by Andrew Green (ISBN: 07478 02947)
  2. 'Oxfordshire Stories of the Supernatural' by Betty Puttick (Countryside Books, 2003, ISBN: 9781853068119)
  3. www.hauntedhostelries.uk

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