The building to near to the famous local hangman's gibbet was once a former inn and was most likely a popular meeting place for those off a morbid curiosity on the days of the public executions. A landlord off the time of disreputable character let a room for the night to three wealthy travellers. Its is reputed that during the night the landlord crept into the room to steel the possessions of the men but awoke one of them from his slumber. He killed the awakening gentleman and then to hide his dastardly deed he murdered the other two while they slept and then throw all three bodies down the well. His actions where soon uncovered and he was sentenced to imprisonment in an iron cage which hung from the gibbet outside the inn until he rotted to death.
Reputed past sighting have included:
The landlords ghost was said to haunt the inn. Sounds of footsteps have reportedly been heard across the balcony and down the stairs to where they stop at the bottom. At the bottom of the stairs is the well into which the bodies of the three unfortunate men where expelled |
