Eleven ghosts. Seven tragedies. One brutal murder. Welcome to "Ghastly Stow."
Discover Stow's more gruesome past. This tour starts at the stocks in the market square and ends in front of the King's Arms, also in the market square. "Ghastly Stow" will take you through the square and down to the town wells and back, giving you an entirely new - and creepy - perspective of Stow-on-the-Wold. Total body count for this tour: 11 ghosts, 4 accidents, 1 unexplained disappearance, 2 drunken tragedies, a poltergeist, murder, suicide, apparitions and one
very bloody battle scene.
In this tour you'll hear about:
| | | The 1834 Murder of
FJ Rens
| Tragedy in Morrey's Close & Talbot Alley
| Various Ghosts & Apparitions
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| | | The Battle of Stow
| The Old Tannery
| Barber Surgeons
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| | | Stow Lodge | Swillies | Tunnels Under Stow
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| | | The Old Court House
| The "Bear Pit" | The Stocks |
| | | Paddy's Alley | Cross House
| Backsword
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| | | The Wells
| The Quaker Burial Ground
| The Royalist Hotel
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We finished our tour a little while ago. It really was very good and we highly recommend it to anyone...There are a bunch of places we're going back to over the next week or so which we would not have seen otherwise. Awesome!"
There were things in this tour that even I didn't know about Stow - and I've lived here most of my life!"