The Skirrid Inn

This Inn is reputed to be the oldest Inn in Wales since having been running since 1110. It's also famed highly for the spirits that reside there. The Skirrid Inn stands in the shadow of Skirrid Mountain (also known as Holy Mountain). Legend has it that this mountain originally broke in two at the time Christ was crucified. In the forecourt of where the Inn now stands Owen Glendower stood and rallied his troops together before marching on to Pontrilas .

Halfway up the Skirrid's magnificent spiral staircase is the cell (now a storeroom). Here many a priosner would spend their last night before being hung by Bloody Judge Jefferies.
The hangings took place from a beam placed across the joist of the staircase and the slab on which the bodies were placed may still be seen at the well of the stairs.

The last person to be executed here was hanged on the instructions of Oliver Cromwell; the crime - sheep stealing.

With all the death that occured within the Skirrid's walls and out lying lands there's good reason to take "sightings" seriously at The Skirrid - 180 rebels from the Monmouth Rebellion were hanged there in 1685.

No-one can be possibly sure who actually haunts the bedrooms and stairways of the Inn but many people believed that hanging Judge Jeffreys, could not rest or that some of the 180 people he sent to the gallows have come back for revenge. However one name that does keep reoccuring is that of Fanny Price, an old landlady from the 1600s whos grave and that of her family can be seen in the graveyard next door to the Inn.