Aconbury
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Aconbury is a village in the Wormelow hundred of Herefordshire, situated on a road between Hereford and Ross-on-Wye. It is known as Caer Rhain in the Welsh language.
St John the Baptist Church was originally the church of a nunnery founded before 1237. The style of the current building is late 13th-century. Some restoration work was carried out in 1863 by Sir George Gilbert Scott.[1] According to local legend, a phantom monk was once exorcised into a bottle, which is now buried in the wall of the church.[2]
References
- ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1963). The Buildings of England - Herefordshire. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. pp. 62. ISBN 978-0-300-09609-5.
- ↑ Murdie, Alan (April 2010). "Ghost in a Bottle". Fortean Times. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140903130340/http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/ghostwatch/3310/ghost_in_a_bottle.html. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
Outside links
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- Location map: 51°59’53"N, 2°42’22"W
