A pub with no beer.

The abridged story of the Upper and Lower Bell pubs. The present Lower Bell pub has been in existence since the late 1800s. The original Lower Bell pub is a private house and is behind the 'new one' in Lower Warren Road (the first house on the right as you go up). In the old days, carriages and carts couldn't get up Blue Bell Hill so at the Lower Bell the horses were untied from the carriages, connected to ropes or chains and a bell sounded. A steam engine in the Upper Bell then pulled the carriages up the hill and the horses walked up to meet them. Hence the bells.
The road was a single track, therefore the Bells were rung when the road was clear.
The Upper Bell pub sits at the top of the Old Bluebell Hill, near the site of a fatal accident in 1965. Many sightings of a young lady ghost has been reported countless times since then, It is said that many drivers who thought they had hit someone in the road with their car, ran into the Upper Bell Pub for a strong drink,
Back when the pub was still open, many stories of these sightings were told.
The slip road past the pub was closed in 2003 and the pub was boarded up in 2005,possibly due to the lack of passing trade.