π» Haunted places in United Kingdom
οΌ File place107 reportedly haunted locations documented in United Kingdom, mapped and described one by one.
The A229 road crosses Kent from north to south, linking Rochester with Hawkhurst via Maidstone. Its best-known stretch is Blue Bell Hill, where the...
Mary King's Close is a warren of old streets and dwellings buried beneath the City Chambers on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, in the heart of the Old Town...
Number 50 Berkeley Square is a four-storey Grade II listed townhouse in Mayfair, London, historically occupied between 1859 and the early 1870s by ...
Between 1977 and 1979, a council house in Brimsdown, in the London Borough of Enfield, became the setting for one of Britain's most discussed polte...
Birkwood Castle is a Category B listed Gothic Revival mansion in Lesmahagow, South Lanarkshire, built in 1810 as a Georgian manor and greatly expan...
In 1762 a lodging house on Cock Lane, a narrow street beside London's Smithfield market and minutes on foot from St Paul's, produced the best-docum...
Abbey House, also called Old Abbey House, is a Grade II listed building on Beche Road in Cambridge's Abbey district. Built c.1620 by Alexander Butl...
Wilderhope Manor is a Grade I listed Elizabethan manor house standing on Wenlock Edge in Shropshire, England, now managed by the National Trust and...
Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum was built in six months in 1883 by C. J. Phipps for two actor-managers, Howard and Wyndham, and opened on 10 September wit...
Goodrich Castle stands in red sandstone above a bend of the River Wye in Herefordshire, and its ruin is the work of a siege that can be followed al...
Edinburgh's biggest theatre keeps a ghost it has never claimed. Staff at the Playhouse have told reporters for decades about Albert, a figure in gr...
Queensberry House stands at the foot of Edinburgh's Canongate, absorbed since 2004 into the Scottish Parliament complex. Its fame rests on a single...
Lauriston Castle is the house almost nobody lived in. A tower house raised for Sir Archibald Napier after 1590, it was bought in 1683 by the goldsm...
On the night of Tuesday 9 May 1911 the illusionist Sigmund Neuberger, billed as The Great Lafayette, was closing his act at Nicolson Street's Empir...
Built into the nineteen arches supporting South Bridge, completed in 1788, the Edinburgh Vaults once housed taverns, cobblers' workshops and storag...
The Ringlestone Inn stands alone on a lane over the Kent North Downs, at a crossroads known locally as the Black Post. Its own website has said sin...
Wymering Manor is an Elizabethan house in a Portsmouth suburb that has been sold two things it is not: medieval, and open. The manor of Wymering is...
Bodmin Jail was built in 1779 on a hill above the town of Bodmin β not out on the moor β to a design by the military engineer Sir John Call, follow...
Berry Pomeroy Castle stands above a wooded limestone gorge in South Devon: a late 15th-century artillery fortress with a four-storey Elizabethan ma...
Pluckley, a hilltop village of round-headed Dering windows in the Weald of Kent, is routinely called the most haunted village in England, usually o...
On Christmas Eve 1642, two months after the first pitched battle of the English Civil War was fought below this Warwickshire escarpment, shepherds ...
Chute, in eastern Wiltshire, is a scatter of hamlets on high chalk downland where a Roman road does something Roman roads almost never do: for four...
Beside a moorland lane a mile north-west of Hound Tor, where a green lane strikes off towards Natsworthy, stands a small turf mound with an uninscr...
Northam Bridge is a road bridge across the River Itchen in Southampton, England, linking the suburbs of Northam and Bitterne Manor. The current con...
The Eastgate Hotel is named after a gate that was pulled down in 1771, and it is said to be haunted by soldiers from a battle that was never fought...
New College Lane is a historic medieval street in central Oxford, England, running alongside New College, one of the University of Oxford's oldest ...
Hinton Ampner is the rare Georgian haunting with a first-hand paper trail. Mary Ricketts, who moved into the old Tudor manor in January 1765, spent...
Bursledon is a village on the River Hamble in Hampshire, and its ghost story is younger and narrower than the internet suggests. The one tale that ...
Knighton is a handful of farms under Ashey Down, on the Isle of Wight, and the thing it is famous for is an absence. Two rusticated stone gate pier...
On the night of Monday 14 May 1649, Fairfax and Cromwell rode forty-five miles in a day and fell on Burford at midnight. Between three and four hun...
Netley Abbey is not a ruin of the Reformation, and that is the point everyone misses. Cistercian monks settled here in 1239, on the shore of Southa...
Cut into the chalk hillside above West Wycombe between 1748 and 1752, the Hellfire Caves were commissioned by Sir Francis Dashwood, founder of the ...
Rufford Old Hall in Lancashire keeps one room of the house Thomas Hesketh probably built before he died in 1523: a timber great hall with five bays...
Bramshill House is a vast Jacobean prodigy house in north-east Hampshire, built between 1605 and 1612 for Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche, and ...
What stands at Hylton today is one building: a gatehouse-tower raised for Sir William Hylton around 1400, with the arms of the king, Richard II's w...
Beaulieu Abbey was founded by King John in 1204, after a false start at Faringdon in Berkshire the year before, and endowed for thirty Cistercian m...
Halfway up the cliff between King Edward's Bay and the walls of Tynemouth Castle, a blocked doorway in the rock marks Jingling Geordie's Hole, the ...
Furness Abbey was founded in 1123 by Stephen, Count of Boulogne, and grew into the second-wealthiest Cistercian monastery in England before its for...
Lumley Castle stands above the Lumley Park Burn at Chester-le-Street, County Durham: a quadrangular castle with four angle towers, licensed by the ...
Appuldurcombe House is the roofless shell of an English Baroque mansion above Wroxall, on the Isle of Wight, built for the Worsley family from 1702...
Faringdon's ghost is not a Civil War soldier, though the town has the war all over it: Cromwell was beaten off Faringdon House in April 1645, the c...
Ordsall Hall is a timber-framed manor house in Salford, free to visit, whose Great Hall was under construction in 1512 and whose owners, the Radcly...
Bruce Castle is not a castle, and the museum that occupies it says so itself, on a page headed "When is a castle not a castle?". It is a Tudor mano...
Britain's most famous theatrical ghost walks a route that was first written down in 1945 β by the theatre's own publicist. The Man in Grey, a figur...
Chislehurst Caves are neither caves nor ancient. They are chalk and flint mines under the London Borough of Bromley, and the attraction that runs t...
In June 1866, with the Victorian restoration under way, somebody opened Rahere's tomb from behind. The parish's own historian, E. A. Webb, recorded...
Minsden Chapel is a roofless flint shell in a Hertfordshire wood, and the paper trail behind it is unusually complete: a chapel of ease to Hitchin,...
Raynham Hall, the Townshend seat in Norfolk, is where the most reproduced ghost photograph ever taken was made: on 19 September 1936 Captain Hubert...
Eltham Palace is two buildings sharing a wall: the great hall Edward IV raised in the 1470s, where Erasmus met the boy who became Henry VIII, and t...
Littleport is a fen-edge town four miles north of Ely, and its hauntings are the kind a public hanging leaves behind. In May 1816, with the Napoleo...
The Green Lady of the Golden Lion Hotel is one of the best-travelled ghosts in Cambridgeshire, and very little of what is usually said about her su...
Flitwick Manor is a Grade II* listed country house in Bedfordshire, built in the early seventeenth century and encased in red brick around 1736, wh...
The Cloisters opened on the afternoon of Monday 28 January 1907 in Letchworth, the world's first garden city, built for Β£20,000 by the Quaker heire...
RAF Elsham Wolds is a chalk plateau in North Lincolnshire that the Royal Air Force used twice and abandoned twice. A Home Defence landing ground ap...
The A616 runs from Nottinghamshire to the Pennines, but its ghost story belongs to seven and a half miles of it: the Stocksbridge Bypass, north-wes...
Belgrave Hall is a plain Queen Anne house on the northern edge of Leicester, built for Edmund and Ann Craddock between 1709 and 1713 - a date the b...
RAF East Kirkby opened on 20 August 1943 as a No. 5 Group bomber station and was home to Nos. 57 and 630 Squadrons, whose Lancasters flew until the...
Leicester's Guildhall began around 1390 as the meeting hall of the Guild of Corpus Christi and spent the next five centuries as the town's courtroo...
Althorp has been the Spencer family's Northamptonshire seat since John Spencer bought the estate in 1508, and since 1997 it has held the grave of D...
The Skirrid Inn, in the village of Llanvihangel Crucorney north of Abergavenny, advertises itself as Wales's oldest pub, over 900 years old, and is...
Plas Teg stands back from the A541 between Mold and Wrexham: a square, four-towered Jacobean mansion rebuilt around 1610 by Sir John Trevor I, Surv...
Sker House stands alone on a limestone promontory above Swansea Bay, about 4.2 km north of Porthcawl. Cadw lists it Grade I as one of the major Eli...
Newark Tower, a roofless fifteenth-century tower house on the Bowhill estate above the Yarrow Water, is remembered for what happened after the Batt...
Llancaiach Fawr Manor was built to be barred from the inside. Raised in the mid-1500s for Dafydd ap Richard β tree-ring dating puts the roof timber...
Skipness Castle is in this catalogue because of a label, and the label can be dated to the second. At 18:34:43 UTC on 19 July 2011 a Wikipedia edit...
Meggernie Castle sits near the head of Glen Lyon, twenty-two miles west of Aberfeldy: a square tower of five storeys with turrets at its corners, a...
On the Caithness shore of the Pentland Firth, looking across to Orkney, the Castle of Mey was built by George Sinclair, 4th Earl of Caithness, in a...
On the night that made Stirling Castle famous among ghost hunters there was, as far as the record goes, nobody else in the room. Thomas Randolph, E...
Wemyss Castle is a Category A listed multi-period castle perched on sandstone cliffs overlooking the Firth of Forth, between the villages of East a...
On a crag above Knock Bay, on the Sleat coast of Skye, stand the ivy-grown remains of Knock Castle β Caisteal Chamuis, the castle of the bay, built...
Kellie Castle stands below Kellie Law in the East Neuk of Fife: its oldest walls raised about 1360, its east tower dated 1573 for Margaret Hay, and...
Castle Huntly is a fifteenth-century tower house on a volcanic mound in the Carse of Gowrie, seven miles west of Dundee. It is also HMP Castle Hunt...
The Hill House was built in 1902-04 for the Glasgow publisher Walter Blackie, to designs by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald Mackin...
Scotland's first lighthouse did not replace the castle on Kinnaird Head β it was built straight through it. Sir Alexander Fraser founded the tower ...
Huntingtower Castle, five kilometres north-west of Perth, is a rare survival: two medieval tower houses standing only three metres apart, linked by...
Hermitage Castle stands alone in Liddesdale, in the Scottish Borders, and has long been called the most sinister ruin in Scotland. The story attach...
Fyvie Castle, in Aberdeenshire, is a category A listed pile of five towers, each named for a family that held it: Preston, Meldrum, Seton, Gordon a...
Inveraray Castle stands on the shore of Loch Fyne, the seat of the Dukes of Argyll and chiefs of Clan Campbell, who still live in it. Its most pers...
Linlithgow Palace, birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots (1542), preserves Scotland's best-recorded royal omen. In August 1513, as James IV prayed at S...
On the lip of a wooded ravine above the Firth of Clyde at Gourock stand two towers welded at the corner: a keep of the late 14th or 15th century an...
Comlongon Castle stands a kilometre west of Clarencefield in Dumfries and Galloway, and it has been shut since April 2019, when the hotel that occu...
On the south-eastern shore of Loch Ness, above Foyers, stands a low pink-harled house built for Archibald Campbell Fraser of Lovat, whose father, t...
Duntrune Castle stands on a rock above Loch Crinan in Argyll, lived in by the same family since the 1790s, and its owners call their ghost a well-a...
Duns Castle is on lists of haunted Scottish houses because of one unsourced sentence and a Wikipedia category twenty-eight bytes long. The sentence...
Craignethan Castle, above the River Nethan in South Lanarkshire, was built from about 1530 by Sir James Hamilton of Finnart, master of works to Jam...
Borthwick Castle, a twin-towered keep raised on a royal licence dated 2 June 1430, is where Mary, Queen of Scots spent the last free night of her r...
The caves under Culzean Castle are real: two systems in the cliff, one below the house and one below the stables, fortified in the 1660s as strongr...
Craigdarroch, two miles west of Moniaive in Dumfriesshire, is a pink classical house built by William Adam in 1729 for Alexander Fergusson and his ...
Carbisdale Castle sits on a crag above the Kyle of Sutherland, and the crag is a battlefield. On 27 April 1650 the Marquis of Montrose lost his las...
Ballechin House stood near Grandtully in Perthshire until June 1963, when it was pulled down. It is famous not because anything was ever proved the...
Ackergill Tower stands on the shore of Sinclair's Bay, two and a half miles north of Wick in Caithness: a five-storey oblong tower house of about 1...
Bedlay stands on a rocky crag above the Bothlin Burn between Chryston and Moodiesburn, about eight miles north-east of Glasgow, and for most of its...
Balgonie Castle stands above the River Leven at Milton of Balgonie, in Fife, and its ghost has a name: Green Jeanie. Popular ghost books say she wa...
Airth Castle is not a haunted hotel any more, and the record suggests it was never a haunted castle. It is a fire-damaged, empty Category A listed ...
Ben Macdui, 1,309 metres of granite at the heart of the Cairngorm plateau, is the highest summit in the Cairngorms and the second highest in Scotla...
The A75 runs about 95 miles across the south of Scotland, from the A74(M) at Gretna to the Cairnryan ferry terminals, and its reputation as a haunt...
Ballygally Castle stands on the Antrim coast road three miles north of Larne, and the date cut over its old doorway settles both its age and its bu...
Gainsborough Old Hall in Lincolnshire is one of England's best-preserved medieval manor houses, built in 1460 by Sir Thomas Burgh as a statement of...
Built in 1862 for the rector of Borley, Essex, Borley Rectory became known as "the most haunted house in England" after psychic researcher Harry Pr...
Chillingham Castle in Northumberland advertises itself as "Britain's most haunted", but the fame is not centuries old: the earliest recorded accoun...
Broad Haven is a small seaside village on St Bride's Bay, in Pembrokeshire, and its place in mystery writing rests on a single school lunch break. ...
The Busby Stoop Chair is an oak armchair that hangs out of reach in Thirsk Museum, in North Yorkshire, and it is the reason the pin on this file ma...
The Crown is a Grade II listed pub and hotel at 21 and 23 Market Street, in the old town of Poole, and it is one of the few haunted buildings whose...
A Grade II* listed former inn at Potters Pond in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, sold today as ghost hunts at "England's most haunted building"...
Opened in 1839 as one of London's "Magnificent Seven" Victorian cemeteries, Highgate's overgrown Gothic tombs and Egyptian Avenue became the backdr...
Perched on the volcanic rock that has anchored Edinburgh since at least the Iron Age, Edinburgh Castle has seen so many sieges, executions, and imp...
The Tower of London has guarded the Thames since William the Conqueror raised the White Tower in 1078, and its long history of executions, imprison...