Clifton-upon-Teme Phantom
Coach & Horses
The first recording of there being a settlement on this site was
in AD943 as a Saxon settlement known as Cliftun-Ultra-Temedam, but
there is evidence of earlier occupation. Not surprising therefore
that the village has its fair share of ghost stories. There have
been reports of phantom horses, a civil war nurse, a white lady
bending over a baby's cot and also soldiers coming out from nearby
woods. One Summer morning some residents of the village heard a
horse and cart coming through the village and a woman shouting
'people, people', but when they looked outside there was nothing to
be seen. The landlord of the local pub, the Lion Inn, has
also reported strange goings on, including the frequent sightings
of a man walking past the bar and then out through the wall.
