The BritStays Blog

Inspiration · London

Haunted London: 2,000 Years of Stories, and Where to Spend the Night

Why London's long history makes it fertile ground for ghost stories, how to explore after dark sensibly, and where to st...

30 Oct 2026 · 4 min read · by Agnes

Inspiration · Worcestershire

Dudley Castle: A Ruin With No Ghost Story Worth the Name

A slighted keep, an executed duke and a fire in 1750 — Dudley Castle's real history needs no invented ghosts, and here's...

19 Oct 2026 · 4 min read · by Agnes

Inspiration · Leicestershire

Bosworth Battlefield: The Field Where a King Fell, and No One Can Agree Which Field It Was

No named ghost, no documented sighting — just 22 August 1485, a dead king, and a battlefield historians still cannot pin...

17 Oct 2026 · 4 min read · by Agnes

Inspiration · London

Tower of London: the ghosts with dates, names and witnesses

Anne Boleyn on Tower Green, a phantom bear at the Martin Tower and a 1957 sighting at the Salt Tower — the reported haun...

14 Oct 2026 · 5 min read · by Agnes

Inspiration · Suffolk

Colchester Castle: The Haunting With No Ghost

No named spirits, no apparitions — just a Norman keep on a Roman temple, a three-month siege and years as a prison. Esse...

10 Oct 2026 · 4 min read · by Agnes

Inspiration · Lyme Regis

Ninety-Five Miles, Taken Slowly: The Case for the Jurassic Coast Road Trip

Ninety-five miles from Exmouth's red cliffs to Old Harry Rocks, taken slowly: fossils, coves, swans and a decent pot of...

6 Oct 2026 · 4 min read · by George

Inspiration · Portrush

One Hundred and Thirty Miles, Taken Slowly: Driving the Causeway Coastal Route

A van-lifer's stage-by-stage case for the Causeway Coastal Route, from Belfast's docks to the walls of Derry, with hones...

4 Oct 2026 · 4 min read · by Shona

Inspiration · Keswick

Britain's Ghosts: How to Tell a Real Haunting from a Good Yarn

A haunted-places writer's honest guide to the UK's ghost stories — how to check them, how to visit them, and where to sl...

2 Oct 2026 · 4 min read · by Agnes

Inspiration · Cheshire

Cheshire, Taken Slowly: The Case for a Quiet Break in the Green Middle of England

Two-person farm cottages, Chester hotels, a narrowboat that sleeps eight and small railway museums over the border — Che...

28 Sep 2026 · 4 min read · by George

Inspiration · Lancashire

The Case for Lancashire: Mills, Museums and a Proper Pot of Tea

A retired writer's grounded case for a Lancashire break — working-heritage museums, Blackpool hotels, quiet cottages and...

21 Sep 2026 · 4 min read · by George

Inspiration · Norfolk

Norfolk at a Gentler Pace: Big Skies, Slow Water and a Proper Pot of Tea

Broads boats from £531, cottages near a bus stop, wartime airfields and a camel park — a plain-spoken case for a slower...

15 Sep 2026 · 4 min read · by George

Inspiration · Inverness

The North Coast 500: 516 Miles That Earn Every Hour

What Scotland's great loop actually feels like from behind the wheel — stage by stage, from the Bealach na Bà to Duncans...

8 Sep 2026 · 4 min read · by Dev