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Everyone who works with me at The Bulls Head has at some time or another been aware of a ghostly presence in the pub.

This history of the building is uncertain because some years ago the historical records were destroyed in a fire. It has remained pretty well the same since it was built in the late 1500s, and the layout would suggest that it was coaching inn on the route from Battle to London.

The village in which it is situated, is known today as Boreham Street. The name originates from the Saxon word for a boar enclosure. In the Doomsday Book it is noted that the village had a population of 280 souls and woodland for 200 pigs. There were, it tells us, 3 salt mines . During the 1500's there were many French names in the church register. France is in fact only about 70 miles away and the village was close to coast before it receded leaving miles of marshland to the south. The neighbouring village was a French settlement and is still to this day called Herstmonceux. It is thought that the immigrant workers were employed to run the furnaces at the mines.

Smuggling was also a local industry! A village document reports that 'they would pass through and hide their contraband in the pub cellars as so not to get caught'.

According to the village records, the pub was also used as a court house in the 1600s and one part of the cellar was used as a punishment chamber for women who where guilty of providing sexual favours for profit! Today the securing rings remain attached to the cellar walls.

The attic was the scene of a suicide late last century, and the ghost of the unfortunate fellow, Jacob , is now treated as one of the regulars. He doesn't like change, and often causes minor chaos by throwing glasses and suddenly dropping the window blinds.

About 18 months ago, a group of experts staged an investigation into the spiritual residents of The Bulls Head. This took place on a December night with several of the locals present to witness their findings.Their first stop was in the disused cellar where the distinct sound of tapping nails was heard by the whole group. They claim to have found one male spirit who gave his name as Ralf Edwards. It seems he was about 35 years old, wearing long black cloak and sporting a dark moustache and long sideburns.

In the attic they sat in a circle to hold a seance. It seems that one of the guests was suddenly pulled from his chair and flung to ground taking one of the others with him. They where pinned to the floor by an invisible weight and

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