ePrivacy and GPDR Cookie Consent by Cookie Consent
Skip to content

Explore - West Oxfordshire

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?

Read more

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!

Read more

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!

Read more

Charlbury Crossroads1

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?

Read more

The Hoar Stone at Steeple Barton

Hoar Stones and Burial Mounds at Barton Park

4 June 2021

Barton Park, A4260

In the grounds of Barton Park can be found the remains of a long barrow marked by a group of stones. Move these stones at your peril!

Read more

Asthall

Phantom Hitch-hiker at Asthall

29 May 2021

Asthall Manor, Asthall

Asthall has its own variant on the classic phantom hitch-hiker urban legend concerning a vanishing 'gypsy-like' girl.

Read more

George Cruikshank's engraving of The Gin Shop (1829)

Death by Gin at Brize Norton

18 May 2021

Brize Norton, West Oxfordshire

In 1858 five people became sick and two died after drinking from the same bottle of gin. Was a poisoner at large in Brize Norton?

Read more

Doom Painting at South Leigh

Doom Painting at South Leigh

7 May 2021

St. James the Great Church, Church End, South Leigh

South Leigh church has a great example of a 15th-century doom painting, complete with smiling demons dragging sinners to hell.

Read more

Symon Wysdom's House, Burford

Wife Selling and Rough Music in Burford

4 May 2021

Symon Wysdom's House, 1 High Street, Burford

A Burford man who attempted to 'sell' his wife at Chipping Norton market in 1855 got more than he bargained for!

Read more