The Dun Cow, Olney

Possibly having been located at 2 Yardley Road, the Dun Cow inn is now long gone. In his almanac ‘Olney, Bucks’ (1907), Oliver Ratcliff gives the following story about the pub. ‘The old Dun Cow Inn, which stood on the Yardley Road, was also reported to be haunted. The midnight disturber in this case was not the spirit of one whose deeds in this world had been such as to deprive him of rest in the next; but an old winnowing machine which used to appear every night and set to work on its own account. My informant finished the strange narrative by saying that everyone was astonished; and I can quite believe that they were.’