Much Hadham is the largest of a number of villages all bearing the name Hadham in the area. The village is neat and attractive and has won the Hertfordshire Best Kept Village award on many occasions. The village currently has a population of one thousand three hundred. The oldest building in the village dates from the fifteenth century.

The church of the Holy Cross dates from 1225 and is unusual in that it is shared between both Church of England and Roman Catholic congregations.

The Hadham part of the village names means ‘heathy homestead/village’ or perhaps, ‘heathy hemmed-in land’. It derives from the Old English words haeth, ham or hamm and micel.

The Bull Inn

A bedroom at the back of the Bull Inn was notorious for the presence of a spirit that would stop people from sleeping. As guests fell asleep the spirit would tug at the bedclothes, pulling them off the bed and waking up the sleeper. The room itself is now part of the private residence of the manager of the inn.

Downstairs one member of the bar staff once saw the shadowy figure of a man dressed in a large hat and cloak walk across the bar. Customers in the bar have complained that something keeps prodding them when there is no one around to do it.

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Local Cottage

A private cottage in the village was once troubled by a poltergeist. At one point the activity became so bad that the family were forced to call in a priest and the house was blessed in November of 2001.

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Moat Farm

Even quiet villages like Much Hadham can have a gruesome past and a haunted present. Just south of Moat Farm lies the ancient moat from which it got its name. A young woman was once murdered and her body was dumped in the moat which has led to the haunting. Now on February 13th the ghost of the unfortunate victim appears in the area and tries to lure people to their death. Even though the moat was drained and the bones of the woman given a Christian burial she still returns each year.

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The Red Lion Inn

The Red Lion Inn was originally built in 1450 as a posting house where coaches would stop to pick up mail and passengers. It survived as an inn until the 1980s when it was converted to private dwellings. Now, within those same dwellings, the ghost of a man wearing knee breeches, buckled shoes and a brocade coat has been seen on more than one occasion.

The inn was famous for its association with Dick Turpin who is said to have escaped from the building through a secret passage. In the 1920s workmen who were redecorating the inn found a pile of human bones which are said to be from a young girl.

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