avebury lady down the well?

Question

please tell me more about the lady down the well at the red lion pub at avebury

Answer 1

The Red Lion, set inside the ancient stone circle in the Wiltshire village of Avebury is reputed to be one of the most haunted Pubs in the south west.

The presence of a spirit named Florrie is enshrined in local folklore, and popularised by television programmes such as Most Haunted.

The hotel reports a sinister history. Legend tells of the landlady, Florrie, being murdered and pushed down the village well during the civil war, by her soldier husband who returned to find Florrie had been unfaithful.

The 17th century coaching inn was expanded around the well, which is a centrepiece in one of the restaurant's dining rooms. History also reported the violent murder of a local man by stabbing, in the cellar which was used to hide priests and criminals.


Twelve members of Paranormal Site Investigators and a local press photographer conducted an overnight investigation at the Red Lion on 1st October, 2004.

Whilst scientific equipment exposed nothing out of the ordinary realms of fluctuations, there was a wealth of activity reported, and caught on camera.

Mild activity reported included: chills, hearing movements, people being touched, discomfort, sightings of light anomalies, footsteps heard, presences felt and appliances turning on then off, apparantly of their own accord.

More significant activity included an object being thrown between two groups of investigators. The group in the Red Lion bar reported no human presence behind, or near to, to the bar when a container for beer bottle tops was thrown down the cellar stairway at the group in the cellar.

One investigator - who did not know the history of the Red Lion - experienced a vision of a man approaching him and acting violently, thrusting forward a number of times with a knife. Staff later verified the history of a man stabbed to death in the cellar, and reported staff feeling his angry presence in the cellar to this day.

Over one hundred photographs, and many hours of audio and video tape were analysed. The group eliminated a large number of anomalies, as being explainable light effects, moisture, dust and reflective surfaces. PSI was left with a number of 'unexplained' phenomena on photographs.

Several apparant 'orbs' were caught on film in the restaurant, and could not be explained by other sources. 'Mist' was filmed in a controlled environment, that could not be rationally explained. An alleged 'apparition of a ghost' was caught by the county press photographer in the mirror of the resturant.

Popular theories suggest that the three stages of manifestation of ghosts are: orbs, following by mist, followed by apparition. This theory has neither been proved or disproved satisfactorily.

The apparition photo was displayed on the front page of the county paper that week, and generated 100,000 unique clicks to their website. The image has sparked 'international interest' and a TV company is said to be making a new programme about the Red Lion as a result of the photo taken at the PSI investigation.

The image has been closely strutinised by a number of specialist groups around the UK, and none can verify the authenticity of the digital image. A number of groups feel the imaged has been digitally enhanced.

Answer 2

The pub is 400 years old and located at the centre of the stone circle where every six weeks a pagan festival is held. It is in the Top Ten list of most haunted pubs in the country. This makes it the most overpriced pub in Wiltshire, which cashes in on the thousands of visitors it gets in the summer.

You'll generally get a decent sized meal however. I have used this pub from time to time and found it handy for a visit to admire the stone circles,sometimes when I am at work I make a detour and pop inthere for a quick pint of Abbot ale and then go on my way.

Well I stopped there this afternoon and found that they had now installed a pay and display machine in their car park! All well and good I thought this is no doubt to prevent people from taking advantage of its central position,so I payed my pound for an hours parking and put the top half in my windscreen and took the bottom part in to the pub and ordered a pint of Abbot handing over said half of ticket in part payment for my beer only to be told that I had to spend over £5.00 before I could expect a rebate.

When I complained about this as I was on my own and for obvious reasons only wanted the one pint It was implied by the barmaid that I was stupid not to have read the notice properly by the machine.

The Red Lion, set inside the stone circle in what is a very picturesque village, the pub is balck and white with thatched roof, and hanging baskets, benches outside..

The presence of a spirit named Florrie is enshrined in local folklore, and many television programmes (Most Haunted).

The landlady, Florrie, was having a bit of fun with one of the locals whilst her husband was away at the seige of Oxford and Basing House. He caught her red handed, murderted her and pushed her body down the village well whicjh was in the courtyard of the pub.

The 17th century coaching inn was expanded around the well, which is a centrepiece in one of the restaurant's dining rooms. History also reported the violent murder of a local man by stabbing, in the cellar which was hide hole during the reformation, and a smugglers den during the Napolonic wars.

Answer 3

I'd not heard of that, and I love Avebury

Answer 4

Great! Finally, a good idea for us to do when half the city parks around our house for the 4th of July fireworks show! Thanks