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The Skirrid Mountain Inn is located not far from the Skirrid Mountain, which has also been called the Holy Mountain. The first time the hotel has been mentioned in any records was in 1110 John Crowther was sentenced to death for stealing sheep.
The Inn used to double as a courthouse and the judge that resided over it was Bloody Judge Jefferies. During the Monmouth rebellion he sentenced 180 to death by hanging. All of them were hung from a beam in the spiral stairwell. Over 800 years hundreds of people were hung here and the ghosts of a lot of them still remain. In the mid 19th century the inn stopped hanging people and concentrated on the drinking habits of the living!
The hangings
The ghosts of the executed make themselves known within the inn in a number of ways, with the main one being the fact that drinkers may feel like an invisible noose is being slipped around their necks, what is more frightening is that they start to feel that the noose is tightening, they manage to break free however the skin around their necks bear the distinct impression of marks for several days afterwards. It has been debated that this could also be the spirit of Bloody Judge Jefferies coming back to hang all those wrong doers out there!
The Ghost of Fanny Price
 Is this Fanny Price?
A woman ghost who has never been seen has been heard rustling past staff and there have also been a lot of chills. One medium in the 1990’s said that he said that he sensed that there was a woman who wandered around the Inn who died in her early 30’s of consumption. The Landlady at the time who thought that this could not be proven or disproved thought nothing of his claims. However, one day, a few months later a couple researching their family tree turned up at the Inn. They were seeking information about landlord from the 18th century called Harry Price. They told the landlady that his wife Fanny price died quite young of consumption. She has been buried in the local churchyard and has wondered the Skirrid Inn ever since.
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