Get yourselves to this very important location

Look around (and see below) there’s a lot of history in these walls….

There is a secret passage running from the cellar of The Olde Bell to the Priory in the village. The secret passage was used by Lord Lovelace of Hurley who was a plotter of the ‘Glorious Revolution’ in 1688 which drove the Catholic James II into exile and placed his son-in-law William of Orange jointly with his wife, James’s daughter Mary, on the throne.

The Olde Bell was an important staging point on the Oxford to London route, with the last recorded schedule in 1890.

Reports have come back that the Inn-Keeper in 1890 used to stand at the door every Sunday handing out glasses of Sherry to everyone attending Church.