Haunted Pub

The Golden Lion - Our own haunted village pub.  Pictured this morning just before it began to rain.

The legend of Old Jeffrey is documented in many paranormal books and it is his ghost that is said to haunt the pub.

I'm still waiting to see old Jeff, perhaps I have never had enough to drink!


The story goes - A criminal was gibbeted on Rossett Green in the 17th century, his corpse was left hanging in the village for years until a group of men decided to take it down and bury it on the village green. The gibbet was broken up and some of it became part of the structure of an outbuilding which is now The Golden Lion (one of the iron staples can still be seen jutting out of one of the interior walls). 

The pub has had various poltergeist-type activity over the years such as glasses mysteriously smashing, ornaments and wall decorations being thrown, etc. Old Jeffrey himself is often seen quietly standing in ploughman's dress in room 2 above the bar or occasionally on the landing outside.