The Landsdown Strand Hotel, Calne , Wiltshire

The Landsdown Strand Hotel ( A ghostly history ).

In late July 1996,the mangment of the Landsdown Strand Hotel called in (Kate Fenn )a local psychic with an international reputation,to look in some detail at the psychic history of the hotel, these are her findings......
The Land..
The land that the hotel now occupies was origanally open land with just a few dwellings scattered around.Although the hotel now stands in the centre of the town,it does not appear to be the centre point of the town.The river obviously divided the strand and a stone bridge was built across this.Kate could hear a water wheel very close to the courtyard.This wheel seemed to be connected in someway with the origonal building,although not part of it. Kate felt that the hotel was origonally built as a coaching inn around the year 1560 and had some royal financing. The building was origonally much smaller and there seamed to be some kind of track at this time which connected the Strand to the nearby White Hart Public house.Kate felt a feeling of gathering here,with a sense of torture being carried out around the strand area,the public house,The Kings Arms, did not exist at this time,although there did exist another hostelry around that area.The brewery connected with the strand is origonal and is proberbly older than the strand itself possibly being connected with a large private dwelling.Kate sensed asymbol 96 associated with the gateway area,and also sensed two guards in full armour around this area. In the courtyard area,Kate sense an intense feeling of animal slaughter,pain ,and sadness and of a child being whipped and locked in a room ,that is now the Generator room.at the end of the courtyard Kate could feel a man associated with a small celler and brewery, he was allways wearing pointed shoes, a floppy hat,a cape, breeches and some other like items,Kate sensed a busy feeling around the whole courtyard,Kate sensed a blacksmith,horses, carts, stables, and animals of all types, Kate also sensed a large lady in a white cap,named as, Sarah Ducket,she lived at the hotel in the early days, she was seen at a window of the hotel shouting,
Tunnels.....
Kate felt that there were and stillare ,tunnels below the main buildings, these were used to hide and escape and linked the brewery to the strand.
Water...
Kate felt that there was water at some time in the court yard ,although this water was not part of the nearby river.the water had an underground source and ran through the courtyard .(I personally have seen this small stream and it is still there to this day ).. (2011).
Stairs....
Kate felt that the stairs had an earie feeling,afeeling of being associated with a young lady in full skirts,with long hair set in ringlete,the stairs also had a feeling of tragedy.
There is much more to this statement but it would take to long to print it all, so here is what i found out,,,,,
On walking into the Strand Hotel and asking for a job ( to which i got ) as a handman, i was told that the hotel had a ghost , but not believing this i set to work checking the rooms, right at the top of the hotel there was one room that no one would enter as strange things happened, not just at night but in the daytime also,i didn`t think any thing of this , as i didn`t believe in ghosts (at the time ), on entering the room 242 as i beleive it was then ,i found that the television and the lights had been left on so i switched them off, left the room and locked it, went down stairs to tell the managment that the television and the lights had been left on possibly by the previous tenent, the hotel manager told me that the room had not been rented for over a week, so i thought nothing more and went back upstairs to check the other rooms on getting to the top of the stairs i could hear talking and music comming from room 242, so i went to check and found that the door was still locked as i had left it , on entering the room i found that the television and the lights were back on ,on looking around the room i noticed an indentation in the guilt on the bed which was not there before, so i straightened it turned of the television and lights again and locked the door again went down stairs again and tild the mangment , he stated to me that this happens all the time that is why the cleaners will not go upstairs to cleen any of the rooms unless there is two or more of them .
I have witnessed this personally , i beleive something or someone is still in that room,later on i found out that the hotel is older than first thought it was built in 1276.....