Lord Hop, Nuneaton
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Lord Hop, Nuneaton
Image: © Stephen McKay Taken: 9 Nov 2022
This micropub at the western end of Nuneaton town centre is rather larger than most and has upstairs seating. The Lord Hop name derives from the nickname given by Nuneaton people to a former local squire whose ghost haunted the (long demolished) Dun Cow pub in the town. It is said he would travel around in a coach drawn by four headless horses until his spirit was confined to a bottle that was thrown into a clay pit. The bottle was later found and inadvertently uncorked allowing Lord Hop to return to haunting the Dun Cow. This story has remarkable similarities to that of another Warwickshire ghost, One-handed Boughton - see Image
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Image Location
Latitude
52.522446
Longitude
-1.471145