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General
It is believed that there has been a settlement at Sharnbrook since at least Saxon times. In fact the village name is thought to be Saxon and translates as 'dung brook' (Old English scearn broc). In the Domesday Book of 1086 the name is recorded as Sernebroc and Serneburg. In the twelfth century the Knights Templars held land in the area followed by the Knights Hospitallers. In the 2001 Census the parish population was 1,940.
St Peter's Church is the oldest surviving building in the village. The church was originally Norman and the first recorded rector was William in about 1155. The church was effectively remodelled in the thirteenth century and additional work was done in the fourteenth, fifteenth and seventeenth centuries so it is a collection of differing architectural styles.
Sharnbrook
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Fordham Arms
The landlord at the Fordham Arms in Coffle End reported that a plastic scoop whizzed past his ear while he was working downstairs in the dry cellar. This happened in 2003 and followed an incident that had happened 6 months earlier. In the previous incident the landlord had just taken a delivery of frozen goods one Monday morning and was in the bar when he saw a shadowy figure. The landlord was standing by the back door and had just bent down to turn on the radio when he saw the figure, which appeared to be wearing a cape, flit diagonally across the room and disappear through a wall. At the point where the figure vanished there used to be a doorway.
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The Mill Theatre
As the name suggests the Mill Theatre at Sharnbrook occupies a former flour mill. The mill was an old one dating back to at least the early 1700s and was in production up until 1969. In 1974 work started to convert it to a theatre by the Sharnbrook Theatre Trust with the first performance being staged I 1979.
Not long after it opened things started to happen with the caretaker’s dog refusing to go near the building. One of the main occurrences is the mysterious disappearance of items from the wardrobe department which would not reappear for anything from days to years later. In addition a woman wearing Victorian clothes has been seen crossing the stage but only the top half of her is seen as the bottom half is within the stage. The ghosts seem to like watching the performances as one was spotted watching My Fair Lady from a stairwell and another was a workman sitting in a chair who was watching dancers going through their routine. The man definitely wasn’t mortal as the witness watched him fade away.
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