Ghost · Chalfont St Peter
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Upstairs, Judge Jeffreys passed sentence. Outside, a phantom coach pulls up.
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The Greyhound is a working pub and hotel on the High Street; check opening times before you go. The upstairs 'courtroom' is now guest bedrooms.
Chalfont's Greyhound Inn is where the hanging judge, Jeffreys, is said to have sentenced the poor. On misty nights, a phantom coach still pulls up outside.
The Greyhound on Chalfont St Peter's High Street is a 16th-century coaching inn. Local tradition ties it to Judge George Jeffreys, the notorious 'hanging judge' of the 1680s, who lived nearby. He is said to have added an extension in 1684 and to have held court in an upstairs room, now bedrooms, where many poor people were condemned, including, it is claimed, the last man hanged for sheep-stealing in England. The inn is also linked to a ghost story. On misty nights, people say, a phantom stagecoach pulled by ghostly horses rolls down Amersham Road and vanishes when it reaches the Greyhound.