π» Haunted places in United Kingdom
οΌ File place107 reportedly haunted locations documented in United Kingdom, mapped and described one by one.
Abbey House, also called Old Abbey House, is a 17th-century building on the corner of Beche Road and Abbey Road in the Abbey district of Cambridge,...
The Old Rectory in Epworth, Lincolnshire is a Queen Anne-style house rebuilt in brick in 1709 after fire destroyed the original wooden rectory, and...
Preston Manor is the former manor house of the old Sussex village of Preston, now part of Brighton and Hove, England. Much of the current building ...
This Tudor manor house, now a National Trust youth hostel on Wenlock Edge, is linked to Major Francis Smallman, a Royalist who lived there during t...
Built in 1883 for theatrical managers Howard and Wyndham, Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre is said among its staff to house the ghost of a former d...
Goodrich Castle's ruins on the Wye are tied to the legend of Alice Birch, a Royalist woman who during the English Civil War fell in love with a Par...
The Edinburgh Playhouse, opened in 1929 as a cinema before becoming Scotland's largest working theatre, is said to be haunted by a former stagehand...
Queensberry House on Edinburgh's Canongate carries one of Scotland's grimmest political legends. On 16 January 1707 β the very day the Duke of Quee...
Built from 1593 with 19th-century additions overlooking the Firth of Forth, Lauriston Castle is said to be haunted by Sophia Frances Stewart, belie...
On 9 May 1911, the stage of what was then the Empire Palace Theatre became the scene of one of Scotland's deadliest theatre disasters. The illusion...
Built into the nineteen arches supporting South Bridge, completed in 1788, the Edinburgh Vaults once housed taverns, cobblers' workshops and storag...
Built in 1533 during the reign of Henry VIII, the Ringlestone Inn near Wormshill in Kent still stands on its original brick-and-flint foundations, ...
First recorded in 1042 as a manor belonging to Edward the Confessor, Wymering Manor is the oldest surviving building in Portsmouth, its timber-fram...
Built in 1779 on the edge of Bodmin Moor, Bodmin Jail was Cornwall's principal prison for nearly 150 years and the site of more than 50 public exec...
Rising above a wooded gorge in South Devon, Berry Pomeroy Castle combines a 15th-century fortress with a grand Tudor mansion built by the Seymour f...
In 1989 the Guinness Book of Records crowned Pluckley the most haunted village in England, citing an extraordinary cluster of twelve reported ghost...
Tucked at the foot of the Cotswolds outside Cheltenham, the small parish of Prestbury has earned a reputation as one of England's most haunted vill...
Weeks after the first pitched battle of the English Civil War was fought below this Warwickshire escarpment on 23 October 1642, leaving as many as ...
The scattered hamlets known collectively as "The Chutes" carry two separate ghost traditions. One tells of an elderly woman decapitated after her b...
On a lonely bend of a Dartmoor lane near Hound Tor stands a small mound known as Jay's Grave, said to hold the body of Mary Jay, an 18th-century or...
The road bridge over the River Itchen linking Northam and Bitterne Manor, in Southampton, carries a layered ghost tradition. The best-known story i...
The Eastgate Hotel stands on Oxford's High Street at the site of the old city wall's east gate, and its ghost story reaches back to the English Civ...
New College Lane, the narrow medieval passage in central Oxford beside New College, is threaded with ghost stories built on centuries of student li...
Hinton Ampner is the site of one of Georgian England's best-documented hauntings. Between 1765 and 1772, Mary Ricketts, tenant of the old manor hou...
Bursledon, a shipbuilding village on the River Hamble in Hampshire, carries several local ghost tales rooted in its industrial past. On Coal Park L...
Knighton itself is a quiet scatter of farmhouses on the Isle of Wight, but it sits beside the site of Knighton Gorges, a vanished manor burned down...
On 17 May 1649, three Leveller mutineers of the New Model Army β Cornet James Thompson, Corporal Perkins and Private Church β were shot by firing s...
Founded in 1239 for Cistercian monks on the shore of Southampton Water, Netley Abbey lived quietly for three centuries before Henry VIII's commissi...
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's blackened oak Great Hall has sheltered the Hesketh family since the late 1400s, its hammer-beam roof and movable rood screen sti...
Deep in the Hampshire countryside, Bramshill House has stood since around 1605, when Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche, raised this vast Jacobean...
Hylton Castle has stood in Sunderland since the Hylton family first built here after the Norman Conquest, later rebuilt in stone around 1400, and i...
Beaulieu Abbey was founded in 1203β04 by King John, an unusual act of piety from a monarch better known for conflict with the Church, who populated...
Jingling Geordie's Hole takes its name from a 17th-century smuggler and pirate said to have used the cave, tucked into the cliffs between King Edwa...
Furness Abbey was founded in 1123 and grew into the second-wealthiest Cistercian monastery in England before its forced dissolution in 1537, when i...
Lumley Castle was built in the 1390s by Sir Ralph Lumley, and its best-known legend concerns Lily of Lumley, a Lady Lumley said to have been thrown...
Appuldurcombe House, the roofless shell of an 18th-century Baroque mansion on the Isle of Wight, is widely called the island's most haunted site. S...
Faringdon changed hands violently during the English Civil War, when Royalist forces fortified Faringdon House and endured a prolonged siege by Par...
Ordsall Hall has stood in Salford for more than 750 years, and for over three centuries it was the seat of the Radclyffe family, whose fortunes and...
Bruce Castle in Tottenham dates in part to the 16th century, and its best-known legend centres on Constantia Lucy, wife of a later owner, who is sa...
The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane has stood on the same site since 1663, and the current building, opened in 1812, is home to Britain's most famous the...
Chislehurst Caves are entirely man-made, dug over some 8,000 years of chalk and flint mining that left 22 miles of tunnels beneath Kent, later used...
St Bartholomew-the-Great was founded in 1123 by Rahere, a courtier of Henry I who, according to the priory's own chronicle, survived a fever during...
Minsden Chapel has stood roofless and abandoned in the Hertfordshire fields since at least the 18th century, its ruined walls reclaimed by ivy and ...
Raynham Hall has been the seat of the Townshend family for nearly four centuries, and its most famous resident is not a Townshend at all but Lady D...
Eltham Palace was a favoured royal residence through the Middle Ages, and it was here in the 1490s that the young prince who would become Henry VII...
Littleport was a quiet fen-edge town until May 1816, when disbanded soldiers and impoverished farm labourers, driven by hunger and unemployment aft...
St Ives, the Cambridgeshire market town on the River Great Ouse, is home to one of the region's longest-documented ghosts: the Green Lady of the Go...
Flitwick Manor, a Georgian house in Bedfordshire now run as a hotel, is remembered locally for the sorrow of Mrs Brooks, wife of 19th-century owner...
The Cloisters opened in 1907 in Letchworth, England's first Garden City, built at the expense of heiress Annie Lawrence as an experimental open-air...
RAF Elsham Wolds opened in 1916 and became a key Bomber Command station in the Second World War, home first to 103 Squadron and its Lancaster crews...
Belgrave Hall was built between 1709 and 1713 for a Leicester wool merchant, a handsome Queen Anne house that later passed through a string of pros...
RAF East Kirkby opened in August 1943 as a Bomber Command station for 57 and later 630 Squadrons, sending Avro Lancasters out over occupied Europe ...
Leicester's timber-framed Guildhall, with sections dating to around 1390, served for centuries as the city's courtroom, council chamber, and site o...
Althorp, ancestral seat of the Spencer family for over 500 years and the childhood home and burial place of Diana, Princess of Wales, carries older...
The Skirrid Mountain Inn, in the shadow of the Skirrid hill near Abergavenny, claims a history stretching back some 900 years and a grim sideline a...
Built around 1610 for Sir John Trevor, Plas Teg is considered one of the finest Jacobean houses in Wales β and one of its most haunted. The best-kn...
Sker House, on the dunes near Porthcawl in south Wales, began as a Cistercian monastic grange more than 900 years ago before being rebuilt as a far...
Built in the 17th century as Aberdeen's civic prison, the Tolbooth held debtors, witches awaiting trial, and condemned criminals within its thick s...
The ruined tower of Newark Castle, above the Yarrow Water in the Scottish Borders, carries one of the darkest reported episodes of the 17th-century...
Llancaiach Fawr Manor, a fortified Tudor house in the Rhymney Valley, is remembered in the history books for hosting King Charles I in 1645 during ...
Skipness Castle, on the Kintyre peninsula, is home to one of Scotland's gentler ghost stories: the Green Lady, a child-sized spirit with golden hai...
Opened on 26 February 1913, RAF Montrose was the first operational military airfield in Britain, and by the First World War it had already earned a...
Deep in Glen Lyon β a valley Scottish folklore calls "the longest, loneliest glen in Scotland" β Meggernie Castle guards a grim nursery legend. Acc...
Overlooking the River Tweed a mile from Peebles, the L-plan tower of Neidpath Castle owes its most famous ghost story to a real 17th-century traged...
On Scotland's exposed north coast, within sight of Orkney, the Castle of Mey (once Barrogill Castle) is best remembered as the beloved retreat of t...
Few Scottish fortresses carry as thick a weight of history β or hauntings β as Stirling Castle, crowned on its volcanic crag since the 12th century...
Wemyss Castle rises on the sandstone cliffs between East and West Wemyss in Fife, its oldest tower dating to the 15th century and its halls witness...
Perched above Knock Bay on the eastern shore of Sleat, Knock Castle β known in Gaelic as Caisteal Chamuis β has stood in ruin since the 18th centur...
Below Kellie Law in the East Neuk of Fife, Kellie Castle preserves parts dating to the 14th century beneath later additions by the Oliphant and Lor...
Long before it became Scotland's only open prison, Castle Huntly was a stronghold of the Lyon family, and local legend blames its haunting on a you...
Hill House was designed for publisher Walter Blackie by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret Macdonald between 1902 and 1904, and passed...
At Kinnaird Head in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, the 16th-century castle converted in 1787 into Scotland's first Commissioners of Northern Lights li...
Once known as Ruthven Castle before its 17th-century name change, Huntingtower Castle near Perth is home to Scotland's most romantic ghost tale, th...
Standing alone in the remote valley of Hermitage Water in Liddesdale, on the Scottish Borders, Hermitage Castle has long been called one of the mos...
Fyvie Castle in Aberdeenshire, with parts dating to the 13th century, is bound to two intertwined curses and a famous Green Lady. Legend holds that...
Seat of the Dukes of Argyll on the shore of Loch Fyne since the 18th century, Inveraray Castle is said to be haunted by a phantom harper, the ghost...
The ruined royal residence of Linlithgow Palace, birthplace of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1542, carries one of Scotland's best-recorded royal omens. A...
Overlooking the Firth of Clyde at Gourock, Castle Levan traces its origins to the 14th century, though most of the surviving tower dates from an en...
Near Clarencefield in Dumfries and Galloway, the 15th-century tower house of Comlongon Castle carries the tragic legend of Marion Carruthers, a you...
On the wooded southeast shore of Loch Ness, Boleskine House became notorious after occultist Aleister Crowley bought it in 1899 and spent months th...
On the shore of Loch Crinan in Argyll, Duntrune Castle claims the title of Scotland's oldest continuously inhabited castle and carries one of the c...
Duns Castle, whose massive Norman keep is traditionally dated to around 1320, stands within a wooded estate outside Duns in Berwickshire, in the Sc...
Craignethan Castle, above the River Nethan, is known in Scottish ghost-lore for a headless apparition linked to Mary, Queen of Scots. Tradition hol...
Twelve miles southeast of Edinburgh, Borthwick Castle β one of Scotland's largest and best-preserved medieval tower houses, built in 1430 for Sir W...
Perched on cliffs above the Firth of Clyde near Maybole, Culzean Castle β remodeled by Robert Adam for the Kennedy family starting in 1777 β sits a...
Craigdarroch House near Moniaive was the seat of the Fergusson chiefs for six centuries. Local tradition ties its haunting to Elizabeth, wife of Co...
Built in 1907 for the exiled Duchess of Sutherland and later run as a youth hostel until 2011, Carbisdale Castle collected ghost stories from gener...
Ballechin House, a Georgian mansion near Grandtully in Perthshire, became one of the most scrutinized hauntings in Victorian Britain after Major Ro...
Standing on the shore of Sinclair's Bay near Wick in Caithness, the early-16th-century tower of Ackergill is bound to the tragic legend of Helen Gu...
Tucked between Chryston and Moodiesburn in North Lanarkshire, Bedlay Castle began as a residence for the Archbishops of Glasgow before passing to t...
Rising on the banks of the River Leven near Milton of Balgonie in Fife, Balgonie Castle's 14th-century keep is said to shelter one of Scotland's mo...
Airth Castle overlooks the village of Airth and the River Forth in Scotland's Falkirk area, its oldest surviving tower dating back to at least the ...
Ben Macdui, at 1,309 metres the second-highest peak in the British Isles, sits at the heart of Scotland's Cairngorm plateau and is home to the coun...
The A75 runs roughly 95 miles across southwest Scotland, linking the Cairnryan ferry terminals near Stranraer to the English border at Gretna, and ...
Ballygally Castle was built in 1625 by James Shaw, a Scottish settler, on the Antrim coast overlooking Ballygally Bay, and it now operates as a hot...
Gainsborough Old Hall in Lincolnshire is one of England's best-preserved medieval manor houses, its great timber-framed hall dating to around 1460....
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...
Shard End Lake in Birmingham began as an ordinary gravel quarry before flooding created the fishing lake now managed within Kingfisher Country Park...
Chillingham Castle in Northumberland has been called "the most haunted castle in Britain," a reputation built over centuries as a Border stronghold...
Broad Haven is a small seaside village on Wales's St Bride's Bay, but its lasting fame in mystery circles comes from February 1977, when pupils at ...
In 1702, Yorkshire counterfeiter Thomas Busby was hanged near Thirsk after murdering his father-in-law, Daniel Auty, reportedly following an argume...
The Crown Hotel in Poole, first licensed as the Crowne Inn in 1697, is often named the most haunted pub in Dorset. According to local tradition, in...
Dating from around 1145, when it is said to have first housed workers building the neighboring St Mary's Church in Wotton-under-Edge, the Ancient R...
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...