Where Oxfordshire's Ghost Stories Still Gather

Introduction

Oxfordshire’s haunted reputation rests on a striking mixture of places: Oxford Castle and its former prison, university libraries and college quadrangles, ruined manor houses in the Cotswolds, old monastic sites by the Thames, and prehistoric stones on the county edge. The strongest stories are not “proof” of ghosts, but layered local traditions: a murdered or wronged woman, a vanished nobleman, a condemned prisoner, a scholar who refuses to leave his books, or a stone circle explained through witchcraft and petrified armies. The county is especially rich because its ghost stories are tied to real historical memory — civil war, executions, royal scandal, monastic dissolution, Tudor intrigue, and the long afterlife of Oxford as a city of learning and death. Oxfordshire’s haunted history is therefore best read as folklore with a map: eerie, memorable, often locally cherished, but unevenly evidenced and sometimes reshaped by tourism, antiquarian writing, and modern ghost walks.

Where Oxfordshire’s haunted geography begins

For this project, Oxfordshire is treated through the historic-county frame used by Wikishire and the wider historic counties model. In that older geography, Oxfordshire borders Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire, with small detached Worcestershire areas historically touching its western side.[Wikishire]wikishire.co.ukOpen source on wikishire.co.uk.

That matters because some famous “Oxfordshire” ghost stories sit awkwardly across changing boundaries. Cumnor, for example, is now in Oxfordshire, but it was historically in Berkshire until the 1974 local government changes transferred it into Oxfordshire administration.[Oxford University]users.ox.ac.ukOpen source on ox.ac.uk. The Amy Robsart legend is therefore a good example of a story that belongs to modern Oxfordshire’s haunted landscape and Oxford’s tourist imagination, while also having deep historic-Berkshire roots.

Oxford itself forms the densest haunted cluster. The city supplies the ingredients that ghost traditions thrive on: medieval lanes, enclosed colleges, executions, plague and prison memory, royal conflict, and the theatrical darkness of old libraries and chapels. Oxford Official Walking Tours now sells a ghost tour built around “over 1000 years of history”, reported apparitions, executions, priests, soldiers, lost heads and haunted college corners, which shows how strongly the city’s haunted image has become part of public heritage tourism.[Oxford Official Walking Tours]oxfordofficialwalkingtours.orgoxford ghosts walking touroxford ghosts walking tour

Oxford Castle and Prison: the county’s strongest haunted anchor

Oxford Castle is probably the clearest starting point for haunted Oxfordshire because the place has both a dramatic documented history and a large body of ghost-lore attached to it. Historic England records the site as Oxford Castle and earlier settlement remains, noting the Saxon and medieval archaeology, the surviving St George’s Tower, the Civil War damage, and the later development of the site as a prison from the late eighteenth century.[Historic England]historicengland.org.uklist entrylist entry Oxford Preservation Trust describes how the castle moved from seat of power to notorious prison, with public executions once drawing crowds to the yard, before the prison closed in 1996 and the site reopened to the public in 2006.[Oxford Preservation Trust]oxfordpreservation.org.ukOpen source on oxfordpreservation.org.uk.

The best-known castle stories usually attach themselves to named historical figures. One is Empress Matilda, whose escape from Oxford Castle during the Anarchy in the twelfth century is often folded into sightings of a woman in white. Oxford Castle and Prison’s own ghost-story material retells the 1142 siege, when Matilda was trapped in the castle and, according to tradition, escaped through the snow dressed in white.[Oxford Castle Prison]oxfordcastleandprison.co.ukthe spooky ghost stories of oxfordthe spooky ghost stories of oxford The haunting tradition turns that image — the white-clad royal fugitive — into a spectral presence.

The other major figure is Mary Blandy, executed in 1752 after being convicted of poisoning her father, Francis Blandy. Oxford Castle and Prison’s account presents her as one of Oxford’s most famous murderers and notes the long-running claim that her spirit may still wander the city.[Oxford Castle Prison]oxfordcastleprison.co.ukthe ghosts of oxford mary blandythe ghosts of oxford mary blandy Oxfordshire Museums also uses Mary Blandy, alongside Empress Matilda, as one of the real-life stories visitors encounter at Oxford Castle and Prison.[Oxfordshire Museums Council]oxfordshiremuseums.org.ukOpen source on oxfordshiremuseums.org.uk.

The credibility of the castle hauntings is mixed in the usual way. The building’s prison history, executions and named inmates are historically grounded; the apparitions are reported traditions. This is exactly the sort of site where a haunted reputation can grow without fraud or firm proof: a frightening architecture, a long institutional memory, genuine suffering, costumed interpretation, and visitors primed to feel the weight of the place.

Oxford’s colleges: ghosts made from books, faith and execution

Oxford’s college ghosts tend to be more literary and institutional than rural hauntings. They often centre on libraries, chapels and fellows whose names survive in college memory.

One of the strongest modern source examples is The Queen’s College Library’s account of Cuthbert Shields. The college’s own 2025 blog explains the story: Shields, a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, left a key and locked tin box to Queen’s College Library when he died in 1908, with instructions that the box should not be opened for fifty years. When it was finally opened in 1958, the papers inside became part of a ghostly college tradition. The same college account describes Shields as a regular feature in Oxford ghost-tour storytelling, while making clear that later sightings are mostly rumoured or unrecorded.[The Queen's College, Oxford]queens.ox.ac.ukThe Queen's College, Oxford'If the dead can haunt usThe Queen's College, Oxford'If the dead can haunt us

That last point is important. Oxford college hauntings often have a traceable historical kernel — a real scholar, priest, head of house or political figure — followed by a much looser supernatural afterlife. Dark Oxfordshire’s version of the Queen’s College story similarly treats Shields as an eccentric alumnus whose supposed ghost was “released” into the library after the box was opened.[darkoxfordshire.co.uk]darkoxfordshire.co.ukghosts of queens college libraryghosts of queens college library

Other college legends follow the same pattern. Dark Oxfordshire records Magdalen College’s claims to several ghosts, including Oscar Wilde, Jesuit martyr George Napier, monks and headless figures, while also warning that some details may have become confused between similarly named Oxford men and different religious-execution traditions.[darkoxfordshire.co.uk]darkoxfordshire.co.ukmagdalen oxfords most haunted collegemagdalen oxfords most haunted college This is useful evidence not because it proves a haunting, but because it shows folklore doing what folklore often does: compressing execution, martyrdom, celebrity and college identity into memorable apparitions.

The reader should therefore treat Oxford’s college ghosts as living institutional legends rather than courtroom evidence. They are preserved by guides, students, alumni, college blogs and local ghost writers. Their value lies in how they dramatise Oxford’s anxieties: scholarship that outlives the scholar, religious conflict that clings to chapels, and old buildings that seem to remember people more stubbornly than official histories do.

Cumnor and Amy Robsart: the Tudor mystery that became a ghost story

Few local legends have a stronger historical engine than Amy Robsart at Cumnor Place. Amy, wife of Robert Dudley, was found dead at the foot of stairs at Cumnor Place on 8 September 1560. The National Archives’ education resource summarises the case bluntly: her neck was broken, the circumstances were suspicious, and the death occurred at Cumnor Place in Oxfordshire as now understood administratively.[The National Archives]nationalarchives.gov.ukOpen source on nationalarchives.gov.uk.

The story became explosive because Dudley was a favourite of Elizabeth I. If Amy died by accident, it was a private tragedy. If she was murdered or pushed towards death, it became a political scandal touching the queen’s marriage prospects and Dudley’s ambition. Cumnor Place specialist material records that the inquest found accidental death, with Amy said to have fallen while descending steps, suffering head wounds and a broken neck.[The Dudley Women]thedudleywomen.comcumnor placecumnor place

The ghost tradition grew from this uncertainty. Oxford Castle and Prison’s Amy Robsart article repeats the common modern version: Lady Amy Dudley was found dead at the bottom of the staircase, her staff having gone to Abingdon Fair, and although the death was ruled non-criminal, many were unconvinced.[Oxford Castle Prison]oxfordcastleprison.co.ukthe ghosts of oxford amy robsartthe ghosts of oxford amy robsart Dark Oxfordshire’s account places the discovery on 8 September 1560 and ties the story to Cumnor Place, Sir Anthony Forster and the wider Dudley scandal.[darkoxfordshire.co.uk]darkoxfordshire.co.uka royal murder at cumnor placea royal murder at cumnor place

As a haunting, Amy Robsart’s story is powerful because the location has largely vanished. Cumnor Place was demolished in 1810, and even the “haunted house” is now a remembered site more than a standing ruin. That absence strengthens the legend: the ghost is attached not only to a death, but to a missing building, lost evidence, and a historical question that cannot be settled to everyone’s satisfaction.

In strict historic-county terms, the Cumnor story has Berkshire roots. In modern Oxfordshire storytelling, however, it belongs naturally with Oxford and the Vale of White Horse. It is one of the county area’s clearest examples of a haunting that is really a public memory of unresolved Tudor suspicion.

Minster Lovell Hall: a ruined manor made for legends

Minster Lovell Hall, beside the River Windrush in west Oxfordshire, is one of the county’s most atmospheric haunted ruins. English Heritage states that the hall was built in the 1430s by William, Baron of Lovell and Holand, later became associated with Francis, Viscount Lovell, a close ally of Richard III, and was eventually abandoned and demolished in the eighteenth century.[English Heritage]english-heritage.org.ukminster lovell hall and dovecoteminster lovell hall and dovecote Historic England’s listing describes the site as the remains of a first-half fifteenth-century manor house, with associated buildings, fishponds and probable early medieval cemetery remains beside St Kenelm’s Church.[Historic England]historicengland.org.ukOpen source on historicengland.org.uk.

The main legend concerns Francis Lovell, who disappeared after the Battle of Stoke in 1487. A long-standing tale says he escaped to Minster Lovell and hid in an underground chamber, only to die there when the servant who knew his hiding place could no longer bring him food. Heritage Gateway records the tradition that a skeleton was discovered in an underground vault in the early eighteenth century and was reputed to be Lovell’s.[heritagegateway.org.uk]heritagegateway.org.ukHeritage GatewayHeritage Gateway

This is exactly the sort of story that clings to ruins: a missing nobleman, a locked chamber, a skeleton, a loyal servant, and a family name still visible in stone. Dark Oxfordshire notes that Minster Lovell Hall has inspired several ghostly legends, including the ghost of Lord Lovell.[darkoxfordshire.co.uk]darkoxfordshire.co.ukthe ghost of lord lovellthe ghost of lord lovell Travel and local-history accounts often add wailing, a White Lady, or a tragic bridal figure, but these are much harder to pin down to early evidence.

The sensible reading is that Minster Lovell’s haunting is a ruin legend rather than a well-documented witness case. Its credibility rests less on sightings than on atmosphere and narrative fitness. A nobleman vanishes from national history; a grand family house falls into ruin; a skeleton story appears; visitors hear the Windrush and imagine the hidden room. The place almost teaches people how to tell a ghost story.

Godstow, Fair Rosamund and the ghost by the Thames

Godstow Abbey, north of Oxford near the Thames, gives Oxfordshire one of its most enduring female ghost traditions: Fair Rosamund. Rosamund Clifford was the mistress of Henry II and was buried at Godstow after her death around 1176. Britain Express notes that Godstow Abbey is famed as her burial place, but also cautions that some romantic details are unsupported; the reliable core is that she died, was buried there, and that her grave later attracted attention.[Britain Express]britainexpress.comOpen source on britainexpress.com.

The folklore is more dramatic than the evidence. Later legend says Rosamund was hidden by Henry in a maze at Woodstock, discovered by Queen Eleanor, and forced to choose between poison and dagger. Dark Oxfordshire’s account of Rosamund’s Well at Woodstock retells this familiar version but also notes that the Blenheim landscape was drastically reshaped in the 1760s by Capability Brown, making the imagined medieval setting difficult to map onto the present gardens.[darkoxfordshire.co.uk]darkoxfordshire.co.ukrosamunds wellrosamunds well

Oxford University Press’s OUPblog, in a myth-busting piece by medieval historian Emilie Amt, is especially useful here: it states that Rosamund did not retire to Godstow as a living nun, but arrived there as a corpse, and that some common claims about Henry’s role in her tomb are not supported by evidence.[OUPblog]blog.oup.comblog Eight myths about Fair Rosamund | OUPblogblog Eight myths about Fair Rosamund | OUPblog That does not kill the ghost story; it clarifies what kind of story it is. Rosamund’s haunting belongs to the long afterlife of medieval romance, not to a neat chain of eyewitness testimony.

Dark Oxfordshire records the modern ghost tradition plainly: Rosamund’s ghost is said to appear among the ruins of Godstow Nunnery, and she is also linked with The Trout Inn across the bridge.[darkoxfordshire.co.uk]darkoxfordshire.co.ukfair rosamund at godstowfair rosamund at godstow This is one of Oxfordshire’s best examples of a legend spreading across connected places: Woodstock, Blenheim Park, Godstow Abbey, the Thames crossing and the pub all become part of the same haunted route.

The Rollright Stones: witchcraft, kings and the supernatural edge of Oxfordshire

The Rollright Stones are not a ghost story in the simple “apparition in a room” sense. They are a prehistoric monument wrapped in supernatural folklore. The official Rollright Stones site describes the complex as more than 5,000 years old and made up of the King’s Men stone circle, the King Stone and the Whispering Knights, located on the Oxfordshire and Warwickshire border.[rollrightstones.co.uk]rollrightstones.co.ukOpen source on rollrightstones.co.uk. English Heritage similarly describes the stones as three groups spanning nearly 2,000 years of Neolithic and Bronze Age development, with the traditional story that a monarch and his courtiers were petrified by a witch.[English Heritage]english-heritage.org.ukOpen source on english-heritage.org.uk.

Historic England gives the archaeological weight behind the legend: the Rollright Stones were among the first scheduled ancient monuments in 1882 and have been the subject of speculation and investigation since at least the seventeenth century.[Historic England]historicengland.org.ukOpen source on historicengland.org.uk. The Rollright Trust preserves the folklore version: a king marching over the Cotswolds is challenged by a witch to see Long Compton after seven strides; when a mound blocks his view, he and his army are turned to stone.[rollrightstones.co.uk]rollrightstones.co.ukOpen source on rollrightstones.co.uk.

This is a different kind of haunting: not a dead person returning, but a landscape made uncanny by myth. The stones explain themselves through story. Why is there a circle? Why a single stone apart from it? Why a collapsed-looking group nearby? Folklore supplies the answer: soldiers, king, whispering knights, witch.

The Rollrights also show how Oxfordshire’s haunted history crosses county lines. The King Stone is across the road in Warwickshire while the King’s Men and Whispering Knights are in Oxfordshire.[pastplace.exeter.ac.uk]pastplace.exeter.ac.ukthe rollright stonesthe rollright stones For a historic-county map project, that makes the site a natural bridge between neighbouring county pages: one legend, two county identities, and a border that may itself have helped preserve the feeling of a charged, liminal place.

Blenheim, Woodstock and the older palace beneath the palace

Blenheim Palace is better known for grandeur than ghosts, but the Woodstock landscape underneath and around it has a deep supernatural tradition. UNESCO describes Blenheim as a palace built to honour John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, and notes the later reshaping of the landscape by Lancelot “Capability” Brown, including the creation of lakes from the River Glyme.[UNESCO World Heritage Centre]whc.unesco.orgOpen source on unesco.org. Historic England records Blenheim Park as a country mansion and designed landscape created from the medieval royal hunting park of Woodstock.[Historic England]historicengland.org.ukOpen source on historicengland.org.uk.

That older Woodstock layer is where the ghost-lore gathers. Fair Rosamund’s Well, in Blenheim Park, links the palace grounds to the Henry II and Rosamund Clifford cycle. Dark Oxfordshire’s account stresses that the well is now in a landscape altered long after the medieval story took shape, which is a useful reminder that haunted places are often palimpsests: one period’s architecture standing over another period’s legend.[darkoxfordshire.co.uk]darkoxfordshire.co.ukrosamunds wellrosamunds well

There is also a stranger seventeenth-century tradition sometimes called the “Royalist Devil” of Woodstock or Blenheim. Dark Oxfordshire places this in autumn 1649, on the site where Blenheim Palace now stands, and describes violent poltergeist-like activity attributed to an entity later nicknamed the Royalist Devil.[darkoxfordshire.co.uk]darkoxfordshire.co.ukthe royalist devil of blenheim palacethe royalist devil of blenheim palace The story belongs less to palace tourism than to Civil War memory and anti-Parliamentarian folklore: an unsettled house, political upheaval, and the sense that the old royal landscape was resisting its new masters.

Blenheim’s haunted importance, then, is not that it is simply “a haunted palace”. It matters because it sits on top of Woodstock: royal hunting ground, Rosamund legend, Civil War disturbance, designed eighteenth-century landscape and modern World Heritage Site. The ghosts come from the layers.

Roads, inns and smaller local hauntings

Not all Oxfordshire hauntings are grand castles or famous ruins. The county also has a network of smaller tales: roadside figures, haunted hotels, pubs with priests or nuns, and local apparitions kept alive by repeated retelling.

The A417 near West Hendred is one example. Dark Oxfordshire records an oft-repeated story of two women encountering an apparent ghost on the busy road near the village.[darkoxfordshire.co.uk]darkoxfordshire.co.ukroad ghosts of west hendredroad ghosts of west hendred The practical modern setting matters: road ghosts often work because they interrupt ordinary movement. A driver sees a figure, brakes or swerves, and the figure is gone. Such accounts are rarely well documented, but they are persistent because they combine danger, speed, darkness and local knowledge.

Banbury supplies another type of story through the Whately Hall Hotel. Dark Oxfordshire describes this seventeenth-century hotel as haunted by a Catholic priest said to have died after a cruel prank in 1687.[darkoxfordshire.co.uk]darkoxfordshire.co.ukghosts of the whately hall hotelghosts of the whately hall hotel Whether the apparition is credible is secondary to why the story sticks: a priest, a religiously charged period, an old inn, and a death framed as both cruel and unjust.

The Old Parsonage in Oxford offers a gentler version of the haunted-building tradition. The hotel’s own history page says the ghost of a nun is said to have been seen in the older part of the house, and it links the building to a medieval hospice for the poor and infirm.[Old Parsonage Hotel]oldparsonagehotel.co.ukOld Parsonage Hotel HistoryOld Parsonage Hotel History Again, the ghost is not presented as fact. It is a tradition that makes sense because the building’s history already contains religious care, old cellars, tunnels and long institutional memory.

These smaller stories are often weaker as evidence but valuable as folklore. They show that haunted Oxfordshire is not only a set of famous attractions. It is also made from ordinary places — roads, inns, hotels, bridges and parish edges — where local memory attaches a face or sound to a spot people already know.

How credible are Oxfordshire’s ghost stories?

Oxfordshire’s hauntings fall into three broad evidence levels.

The strongest historical foundations are not necessarily the strongest ghost evidence. Oxford Castle, Amy Robsart at Cumnor, Minster Lovell Hall, Godstow Abbey, Blenheim/Woodstock and the Rollright Stones all have real historical or archaeological substance behind them. Historic England, English Heritage, UNESCO, local archives and institutional sources can confirm the places, dates, buildings and people.[historicengland.org.uk]historicengland.org.uklist entrylist entry

The ghostly layer is usually less secure. It is often preserved by local folklore sites, ghost tours, hotel histories, visitor attractions, parish memory, newspaper-style features and oral retelling. These sources are useful for mapping the tradition, but they should not be treated as neutral proof. A phrase such as “is said to haunt” is doing important work: it signals tradition, not verification.

The most interesting cases are those where the historical uncertainty itself generates the haunting. Amy Robsart’s death was ruled accidental, but suspicion made the story live. Francis Lovell’s disappearance left a gap that the vault-and-skeleton legend filled. Rosamund Clifford’s documented burial became surrounded by literary invention, jealous queens and wandering ghosts. The Rollright Stones’ prehistoric unknowability invited a witch’s curse.

A careful reader does not need to choose between “all true” and “all nonsense”. Oxfordshire’s ghost stories are best understood as cultural afterimages. They show which deaths felt unresolved, which ruins seemed morally charged, which old buildings invited unease, and which landscapes demanded an explanation more memorable than archaeology alone.

Why Oxfordshire became so haunted in the public imagination

Oxfordshire’s haunted reputation is unusually durable because the county has several overlapping story-worlds.

First, Oxford is already theatrical. Its colleges, towers, libraries and enclosed courts look like the setting for ghost stories even before any apparition appears. A city with executions, religious conflict, student folklore and tourist night walks naturally turns history into performance.

Second, the wider county contains ruins with strong narrative hooks. Minster Lovell has a missing nobleman. Godstow has a royal mistress. Cumnor has a Tudor death on a staircase. The Rollrights have stones that look as if they are waiting to move. These are not generic haunted places; each has a story shape that is easy to remember.

Third, Oxfordshire sits at several borders: between city and countryside, university and village, historic and modern counties, Christian ruins and older ritual landscapes, elite history and oral folklore. Border places often attract uncanny stories because they feel transitional. The Rollright Stones on the Oxfordshire-Warwickshire edge make that literal.

Finally, modern tourism keeps the stories visible. Oxford ghost tours, castle interpretation, local folklore websites and seasonal events do not merely repeat old legends; they reorganise them for present-day readers and visitors. That can simplify or embellish the evidence, but it also keeps local haunted history from vanishing.

What to remember about haunted Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire’s best ghost stories are not random scares. They are attached to specific places and historical pressures: Oxford Castle’s prison memory, Queen’s College Library’s scholarly eccentricity, Cumnor’s Tudor suspicion, Minster Lovell’s aristocratic disappearance, Godstow’s royal romance, Woodstock’s older palace landscape, and the Rollright Stones’ prehistoric mystery.

The county’s haunted history is strongest when read as folklore grounded in place. Some stories have solid historical cores; some are late inventions; many sit somewhere between. The apparitions remain claims and traditions, not established facts. Yet the stories endure because they help make sense of Oxfordshire’s old buildings, vanished houses, dangerous roads, ruined religious sites and ancient stones — places where the past feels close enough for the imagination to give it a shape.

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44. Source: english-heritage.org.uk
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45. Source: historicengland.org.uk
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46. Source: historicengland.org.uk
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47. Source: oldparsonagehotel.co.uk
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48. Source: historyhit.com
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49. Source: Wikipedia
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50. Source: Wikipedia
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51. Source: Wikipedia
Title: Minster Lovell Hall
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52. Source: Wikipedia
Title: Oxford Castle
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53. Source: Wikipedia
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54. Source: Wikipedia
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55. Source: Wikipedia
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56. Source: Wikipedia
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57. Source: facebook.com
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58. Source: facebook.com
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59. Source: facebook.com
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60. Source: facebook.com
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61. Source: historicengland.org.uk
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62. Source: historicengland.org.uk
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63. Source: essexghosthunters.co.uk
Title: godstow nunnery
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64. Source: historic-uk.com
Title: The Rollright Stones
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65. Source: historic-uk.com
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66. Source: historic-uk.com
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67. Source: greatbritishghosttour.co.uk
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68. Source: users.ox.ac.uk
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69. Source: users.ox.ac.uk
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70. Source: gazetteer.org.uk
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71. Source: oxfordcastleprison.co.uk
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72. Source: oxfordcastleprison.co.uk
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73. Source: heritagesearch.oxfordshire.gov.uk
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74. Source: oxfordshire.gov.uk
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75. Source: heritagesearch.oxfordshire.gov.uk
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76. Source: letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk
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77. Source: britishfolklore.com
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78. Source: meetings.westoxon.gov.uk
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79. Source: historicoxfordshire.ashmolean.org
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80. Source: wikishire.co.uk
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81. Source: blenheimpalace.com
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82. Source: minsterlovell.com
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83. Source: writerlesleydonaldson.com
Title: blenheim palace
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84. Source: arbuturian.com
Title: oxford castle
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85. Source: de.pinterest.com
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86. Source: whitehorsedc.gov.uk
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87. Source: genuki.org.uk
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88. Source: spookyisles.com
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89. Source: tripsavvy.com
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92. Source: youtube.com
Title: Would You Sleep In A HAUNTED Prison Cell?
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93. Source: youtube.com
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94. Source: oxfordsummercourses.com
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95. Source: hauntedrooms.co.uk
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96. Source: hauntedrooms.co.uk
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98. Source: hauntedhosts.com
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