Like all good coaching inns, the Green Man is said to boast a resident ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy, rumoured to have killed his wife. However, the landlord, Maurice...
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The Hand That Riles the...
The Hand That Riles the...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.
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