Aconbury is a village in the English county of Herefordshire, situated on a road between Hereford and Ross-on-Wye.

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][2]

According to a Fortean Times article, a phantom monk was once exorcised into a bottle, which is now buried in the wall of the church.[3]

On nearby Aconbury Hill is an Iron Age hillfort, Aconbury Camp.[4]

References

  1. ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1963). The Buildings of England - Herefordshire. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-300-09609-5.
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  3. ^ Murdie, Alan (April 2010). "Ghost in a Bottle". Fortean Times. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
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