Lady Wenman, who lived at Thame Park, near Thame, was so scared of being buried alive that she ordered her body to be placed in an open vault – and to be left unburied for a period of 50 years.
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A FIRE was seen in the sky above Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire just after 9am on the morning of 11 January 1973.
There are always rumours of buried treasure but one summer’s day in 1940 rumour became fact for a gentleman out walking his dog.
When Mrs Williams sat up and spoke, it was to the astonishment of everyone. For Mrs Williams had just literally come back from the dead.
The size of St James Church and its dedication (St James is the patron saint of pilgrims) indicates this was for many centuries a site of great pilgrimage.