The Ancient Ram Inn is a Grade II* listed building and a former pub located in Wotton-under-Edge, a market town within the Stroud district of Gloucestershire, England. The inn has been owned by many people since 1145 and was in the private ownership of John Humphries until his death in December 2017. This inn was said to have also been owned by the local St. Mary's Church when first built. The pub is reputed to be haunted.
History
The inn's original use was to house the masons and other builders employed to construct the neighbouring church. It was later - 1154 - taken up as the dwelling of the first recorded vicar; Gerinus. There are no later records of vicars or reverends living in the inn, so it is believed that the local town vicarage was built in the late 1100s. John Humphries bought the building when it closed as a pub in 1968, and opened it as a guesthouse shortly after.
Current owner Caroline Humphries says that after some guests had reported strange experiences, the guesthouse "kind of evolved into an event location for paranormal activity". It now claims to be the "most haunted building in Britain", with Humphries reporting that the building is home to around 20 ghosts. The location has been visited by a range of paranormal investigators and television crews.