Looking for a place to stay in Lincoln? This former coaching inn has existed in one guise or another since at least the fourteenth century, and is associated with many ghost stories and anecdotes. These are outlined by Daniel Codd in Haunted Lincolnshire (2007), and include a former owner who asks people for help to find his pickle jar and who is said to have been cursed by the woman from whom he stole it, and a robber who was killed by the torch of a coachman in the seventeenth century. Some of these are told regularly, for example on many of Lincoln’s organised ghost walks.

Words by RORY WATERMAN