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Whitsun Ale at Woodstock illustration

Whitsun Ale at Woodstock

19 August 2021

Woodstock

Chaotic scenes and drunken revelry were par for the course on this particularly boozy religious holiday.

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Old map of Church Handborough

The Ghost of Jane Scalpepper at Church Handborough

18 August 2021

The Old Rectory, Church Handborough

The Old Rectory at Church Handborough is haunted by the ghost of Jane Scalpepper, who met a bad end there in the mid 17th century.

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Site of the Bishop's Palace in Witney

Queen Emma's Ghost at the Bishop's Palace, Witney

15 August 2021

Station Lane, Witney

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St Mary's Church, Witney

A Monkey at St. Mary's Church

6 August 2021

St. Mary's Church, The Green, Witney

An escaped monkey during a fair inspired this unusual addition to the spire at St. Mary's Church, Witney.

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Dick Turpin

A Ghostly Highwayman on the B4047

5 August 2021

B4047, between Witney and Burford.

The old Witney-Burford road is haunted by a black-clad highwayman in the garb of the 18th century.

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Mists in the Evenlode valley at Swinbrook.

The Ghost of Swinbrook Bridge

4 August 2021

The Bridge, Swinbrook

Could the bridge at Swinbrook be haunted by the ghost of a young woman searching for her baby?

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Victorian bedroom

A Haunted Wardrobe at Carterton Manor

4 July 2021

Priory Manor Farm, Manor Road, Brize Norton

An advert in the London Morning Post on 19 August 1937, offered for sale a large Victorian wardrobe, complete with ghost!

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Bampton, Oxfordshire

The Story of Moonraker Lane, Bampton

1 July 2021

Moonraker Lane, Bampton

The curiously named Moonraker Lane harks back to a running joke from the past about mistaking the moon's reflection for a cheese!

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A Suicide Buried at the Crossroads

16 June 2021

B4022, Charlbury

The crossroads known as 'Condive's Corner' is believed to be haunted by a suicide. Or was it a murder?

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