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Alleged hauntings in
this section are categorised and outlined very
briefly.
 Black
Horse Pub (now Check Inn), Wroughton
In 1994 the local paper
reported, "Quite a few of the staff say they have
noticed barely-visible figures when the pub is
quiet. But when they go to see if anyone is there,
the bar turns out to be empty."
Source:
Swindon
Advertiser
 The
Chiseldon House Hotel, Chiseldon
Apparently bangs were
heard in hotel and objects were seen to move around,
photocopiers start by themselves and telephones are
knocked off their hooks.
Source:
Swindon
Advertiser
Church Path from
Chiseldon to Hodson
Locals have reported an
entity of undefined shape along this path, appearing
to "bob along" a couple of feet above the path, and
then vanish.
Source: Matthews, R.
(2004) Haunted Places of Wiltshire
 The
Harrow, Wanborough
According to local
legend the building is haunted by the ghost of Old
Marlow, a stage coach driver, who crashed outside
the inn and who is rumoured to wander the building
late at night in his eternal search for his lost
passengers.
Source:
Harrow Inn Website
The Highworth Tunnels
Tunnels running
underneath Highworth are said, by locals, to be
haunted by the mistress of the man who built them.
An apparition has occasionally been seen coming out
of the tunnel opening.
Source:
Swindon
Advertiser
 The
Jolly Tar, Hannington
PSI
investigated the
Jolly Tar in 2007.
The new landlords report
mainly apparition phenomena, two clear figures seen
on an ongoing basis. Previous staff and
customers have made very similar reports.
Source: PSI Jolly
Tar Report (2007)
 The
King and Queen, Highworth
Local legends tell of a
monk who was sentenced to death in the pub and was
hung outside in the alley. Visitors and staff
report cold spots, shadows and even apparitions in
the toilets.
Source:
Swindon
Advertiser
King Edwards House,
Wanborough
Part of the King Edwards
Place conference centre. The house is said to be
haunted by a man who hanged himself there.
Source:
N/A - first hand
accounts
Nr Lady Lane,
Blunsdon
Local legend tells of
the gamekeeper of Blunsdon Abbey hanging himself off
the St Andrews Church wall in around 1906.
They claim he is still seen wandering there.
Source:
N/A - first hand
accounts
Mill Lane, Wroughton
There are rumours of a
man hanging himself in the 1970s or 1980s.
Eyewitnesses report
seeing black figures on the road.
At the Manor on Mill
Lane there are stories of anomalous footsteps
upstairs and the smell of lavender in one a room.
Source:
Weird Wiltshire forum
Pentylands Lane,
Highworth
In 1969 there were a
series of accounts of more than 20 youths seeing a
'hunch-backed' ghost on a number of occasions;
although there may be a hint of fraud involved.
Source:
Swindon
Advertiser
 The
Red Lion, Castle Eaton
Due to be investigated
by PSI in 2007.
Customers and staff have
reported instances like being pushed off bar stools,
being shaken awake and objects being moved around
the bar area.
Source:
N/A - first hand
accounts
Sams Lane,
Blunsdon
Local legend has it that
a 12 year old was hanged for stealing a sheep, in
the eighteenth century, near to what is now
Churchill Close. Locals claim there are
stories of his figure being seen.
Source:
N/A - first hand
accounts
South Marston Village
Hauntings
A local newspaper report
in 1997 claims Nightingale Farm has been subjected
to Poltergeist activity for 30 years, that footsteps
have been heard the in the village Sub Post Office
and that furniture and forks have been seen to move
around at another nearby farmhouse.
Source:
Swindon
Advertiser
 St
Michael's Church, Highworth
The Church is said to be
haunted by the same monk that is seen at the King
and Queen pub. Documented sightings are
infrequent but occur right across the twentieth
century.
Source:
Ghost of South West England
Water Eaton Copse,
Blunsdon
One witness reported,
"you see things, hear things and every time you go
back into it the forest changes." Apparently
villagers do not go near the area; legends talk of a
man on a horse galloping along the path that leads
to the copse.
Source:
N/A - first hand
accounts
Yew Tree, Wroughton
There is a village
legend that the yew tree at the top of the hill is
haunted, and the ghost can be raised by running
around the tree three times.
Source: Matthews, R.
(2004) Haunted Places of Wiltshire
Other alleged haunting
cases:
- An Undisclosed Pub,
Bishopstone
- Sams Lane,
Blunsdon
- Barbury Castle,
Chiseldon
- Hannington Hall,
Hannington
- Stanton Fitzwarren
House Hotel, Stanton Fitzwarren
- Jesmond Hotel,
Highworth
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