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General
Fulmer is a village which lies on the road south of Gerrards Cross. A picturesque village with the church, village hall and Black Horse Inn all clustered around a bend in the road.
The name drives from the Old English words fugol and mere which means ‘bird lake’. In the church there is a marble and alabaster tomb to Sir Marmaduke Dayrell, the church’s builder and treasurer to three monarchs, Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I.
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River Ford
Fulmer is haunted by a ghostly carriage and horses. The apparition appears on Framewood Road to the south of the village near a river ford then travels through Fulmer along Windmill Road. The carriage then leaves the village along Fulmer Road heading towards Gerrards Cross. This is the story as we found it but there is a problem, the ford is no where near Framewood Road. In fact the nearest point on Framewood Road lies just over half a kilometre to the southwest of the centre of Fulmer whilst the ford lies just over one kilometre away from Fulmer to the east, a separation of nearly one and a half kilometres.
There is another haunting reported in Fulmer and this is the sound of the clip clop of a horses hooves and the grinding of an old cart which has been heard several times in the area around Fulmer Ford.
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