![Horspath primary school](https://wagtail-mapbox.s3.amazonaws.com/images/Horspath-school.2e16d0ba.fill-600x400.jpg)
Haunted Horspath: A Ghostly Schoolroom Encounter
7 February 2024
3 Blenheim Rd, Horspath
In late 1873, a haunting at a Horspath school terrified teachers perplexed clergymen.
![Map showing Gansdown (or Gangsdown) Hill](https://wagtail-mapbox.s3.amazonaws.com/images/Screenshot_2023-12-08_at_16.35.45.2e16d0ba.fill-600x400.png)
The Unsolved Murder of Richard Green
8 December 2023
A7074, Gansdown Hill
Richard Green was violently murdered one December night, yet his loyal horse still managed to deliver him home by morning.
![A map showing the Devil's Churchyard, 1912](https://wagtail-mapbox.s3.amazonaws.com/images/devils-churchyard-map-1912.2e16d0ba.fill-600x400.png)
The Devil's Churchyard at Checkendon
22 October 2023
Woodland Northeast of Checkendon, South Oxfordshire
Buried in woodland in South Oxfordshire is a heart-shaped earthwork enclosure that for hundreds of years has been known as the Devil's Churchyard.
![Camping party at Hart's Wood, Goring, 1880](https://wagtail-mapbox.s3.amazonaws.com/images/Camping-party-at-Harts-Wood-Goring.2e16d0ba.fill-600x400.jpg)
The Goring tragedy that inspired Jerome K. Jerome
17 October 2023
Hartslock Woods, Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
A memorable and moving incident from Jerome K. Jerome's novel Three Men in a Boat was inspired by a real-life tragedy at Goring-on-Thames that was reported in newspapers nationwide.
![The Knights Templar preceptory map 1910](https://wagtail-mapbox.s3.amazonaws.com/images/Map_1910.2e16d0ba.fill-600x400.png)
The Knights Templar at Sandford-on-Thames
9 August 2023
Henley Road, Sandford-on-Thames
The legend of the mysterious Knights Templar still captivates people today. And one of their most important bases in England was located right here in Oxfordshire.
![Cottages in North Moreton](https://wagtail-mapbox.s3.amazonaws.com/images/Cottages_in_North_Moreton_-_geogra.2e16d0ba.fill-600x400.jpg)
The Bewitching of Anne Gunter of North Moreton
18 May 2023
North Moreton, South Oxfordshire
When 14-year-old Anne Gunter claimed to have been bewitched, North Moreton became the focus of national, and even royal, interest.
![The highwayman Dick Turpin, on horseback, sees a phantom riding next to him. Lithograph by W. Clerk, ca. 1839.](https://wagtail-mapbox.s3.amazonaws.com/images/dick-turpin-cropped.2e16d0ba.fill-600x400.jpg)
Horace Wright, Oxfordshire's least successful highwayman
18 April 2023
Near Henley-on-Thames
Highwayman-obsessed Horace Wright was described by some as 'the modern Dick Turpin', but by others as 'a candidate for an asylum'!
![Lord William's School map](https://wagtail-mapbox.s3.amazonaws.com/images/Lord-Williams-School-map-1919.2e16d0ba.fill-600x400.png)
Haunted Lord William's School, Thame
9 April 2023
Lord William's School, Oxford Road, Thame
Thame's oldest school is said to be haunted by the ghost of a school Matron who was murdered by another staff member in the 19th century.
![Map of Gallowstree Common circa 1897](https://wagtail-mapbox.s3.amazonaws.com/images/gallowstree-common-1897-wide.2e16d0ba.fill-600x400.png)
Lost Gibbet at Gallowstree Common
13 March 2023
Gallowstree Common, South Oxfordshire
The name of this village in South Oxfordshire is a reminder of its history as a place where executed criminals were gibbeted.