The little village nestles in the Buckinghamshire countryside. It is a pretty place of cobbled alleys and ramshackle buildings; very small, no more that a cluster of houses, pubs and shops that span hundreds of years, watching time flow along the old Roman road. As you walk through the village you can see how the road, a main route to London, was central to the village and its economy. In 1767, at the time when coaching inns were a necessity for travel, there were only 67 houses in the village… and 17 were inns. At one end of the High Street a narrow lane winds its way up the hill, and, as you turn the corner, a Gothic ruin tells you that this is a village unlike any other… West Wycombe has a history that goes beyond its timbered buildings, back into the far distant past and its ghosts still walk…

There are many tales of ghostly apparitions here. While most may be linked to the more famous of its inhabitants, the most often cited is the ghost of Suki, a pretty barmaid of the George and Dragon who was affianced to a highwayman. One night Suki received a message to meet her love beneath the hill, and arrived to find only the jealous young men of the village. Upset, angry at being tricked and perhaps to defend herself too, Suki threw stones at the men. They threw them back, striking the young woman on the head and killing her….

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