👻 Haunted Places in the UK
Britain is the most haunted country on earth — or at least the one with the most stories. This is our guide to the most haunted places in the UK: 225 castles, coaching inns, stately homes, gaols, theatres and whole villages with a ghost to their name. Every guide tells the story as reported, digs into the real history underneath, rounds up published sightings and investigations, and finishes with the practical bit — ghost tours, opening notes and places to stay nearby for anyone brave enough to make a night of it.
Britain's most haunted places
The ones with the longest record of reported sightings, investigations and sleepless guests.
🏰 Castle · Northumberland
Chillingham Castle
A 13th-century border fortress with a torture chamber, a bricked-up boy and England's most-repeated ghost clai...
5 ghosts Ghost tours Stay overnight
🏰 Castle · Greater London
Tower of London
Nearly a thousand years of executions, disappearances and royal menageries, and a ghost for almost every tower
5 ghosts
🏘️ Village · Kent
Pluckley
A pretty Wealden village with a Guinness-backed reputation, a dozen named ghosts and the Screaming Woods on it...
6 ghosts Ghost tours
🏚️ House · Gloucestershire
The Ancient Ram Inn
A lopsided former inn on a Cotswold back street, said to stand on a pagan burial ground and to house England's...
5 ghosts Ghost tours
🏰 Castle · Angus
Glamis Castle
The Queen Mother's childhood home, a bricked-up card game with the Devil and the secret that every heir is sai...
5 ghosts
🏚️ House · Essex
Borley Rectory
The phantom nun, the wall writings and Harry Price: the story behind "the most haunted house in England" and w...
4 ghosts
🏚️ House · Edinburgh
Mary King's Close
A 17th-century street buried beneath the Royal Mile, a room of dolls for a girl called Annie, and a plague myt...
4 ghosts Ghost tours
🏛️ Stately home · Greater London
Hampton Court Palace
Henry VIII's Thames-side palace, with a Haunted Gallery, a Grey Lady and a ghost that closed a fire door on CC...
4 ghosts Ghost tours
🛏️ Haunted places you can actually sleep in
Castle hotels, coaching inns and a converted gaol — each with a bed for the night and a story for breakfast.
Chillingham Castle
Northumberland
Jamaica Inn
Cornwall
30 East Drive
West Yorkshire
The Skirrid Mountain Inn
Monmouthshire
Ballygally Castle
County Antrim
Athelhampton House
Dorset
Haunted places near you
Pick a county or nation for its own guide.
Haunted places in Argyll and Bute
Haunted places in Bedfordshire
👻 Haunted place · Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire is a ceremonial county in the East of England. It is bordered by Northamptonshire to the north, C...
👻 Haunted place · Bedfordshire
Flitwick Manor
Flitwick Manor is a Georgian country house in the south of Flitwick, Bedfordshire, England. It is located on C...
Haunted places in Berkshire
Haunted places in Buckinghamshire
👻 Haunted place · Buckinghamshire
Bisham Abbey
A Grade I listed Berkshire manor of Knights Templar, a captive Scottish queen and royal visitors, with a long-...
2 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Buckinghamshire
Bucks Museum 🔦
A medieval fraternity house, a Georgian grammar school and five centuries of Buckinghamshire stories gathered...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Northamptonshire to the north,...
👻 Haunted place · Buckinghamshire
Hellfire Caves
The Hellfire Caves are a network of man-made chalk and flint caverns which extend 260m underground. They are s...
Haunted places in Cheshire
👻 Haunted place · Cheshire
Norton Priory 🔦
Four centuries of canons, floods and slow decline beneath the Cheshire trees — and a ruin where organised ghos...
1 ghosts
🏛️ Stately home · Flintshire
Plas Teg
A Jacobean mansion rescued from ruin, said to house fifteen ghosts, a drowned bride-to-be and a well with a da...
3 ghosts
🛏️ Hotel · Denbighshire
Ruthin Castle
A castle hotel with a drowning pit, a whipping pit and a Grey Lady who took an axe to her husband's mistress
3 ghosts Stay overnight
👻 Haunted place · Chester
Stanley Palace 🔦
A timber-framed Elizabethan town house on Watergate Street, built on friary ground, where the 7th Earl of Derb...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Cheshire
Tatton Old Hall 🔦
A medieval manor hall opened up to its bare rafters, carrying one of the fiercest haunted reputations in the c...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Cheshire
Walton Hall 🔦
Brewing money, crow-stepped gables and one surviving tower — the Warrington country house where the ghost hunt...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Chester
Wrexham
A Welsh market city of water meadows and old lordships, where the deepest shadows belong to history rather tha...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Chester
Mold, Flintshire
Mold is a town and community in Flintshire, Wales, on the River Alyn. It is the historic county town and was t...
👻 Haunted place · Chester
Pontblyddyn
Pontblyddyn is a village just to the east of Leeswood, in Flintshire, Wales and is situated around 8 miles fro...
Haunted places in Cornwall
⛓️ Prison or museum · Cornwall
Bodmin Jail
A Georgian prison where 55 people were hanged, now a dark-history attraction and a hotel where you sleep in th...
4 ghosts Ghost tours Stay overnight
🍺 Pub / inn · Cornwall
Jamaica Inn
The smugglers' coaching inn on Bodmin Moor that inspired Daphne du Maurier, where a murdered stranger still wa...
4 ghosts Ghost tours Stay overnight
👻 Haunted place · St Austell
Bodmin
Bodmin is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated south-west of Bodmin Mo...
👻 Haunted place · Bude
Boscastle
Boscastle is a village and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, in the civil parish of Forrab...
Haunted places in County Durham
🛏️ Hotel · County Durham
Lumley Castle
A 14th-century castle hotel above the Wear where Lily of Lumley is said to rise from the well and touring cric...
3 ghosts Ghost tours Stay overnight
👻 Haunted place · County Durham
Tyne and Wear
Tyne and Wear is a ceremonial county in North East England. It borders Northumberland to the north and County...
Haunted places in Cumbria
👻 Haunted place · Keswick
Annan, Dumfries and Galloway
Annan is a historic market town and royal burgh in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. It is 15 miles...
👻 Haunted place · Keswick
Moresby Hall
Moresby Hall is a former manor house and hotel in Parton, Cumbria, England, overlooking the Cumbrian Fells, an...
Haunted places in Derbyshire
👻 Haunted place · Matlock
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet 🔦
A scythe works frozen mid-shift on the River Sheaf, where water wheels, cottages and cold forges keep three ce...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Matlock
Bolsover Castle 🔦
A Jacobean pleasure palace raised on medieval ruins, voted the most haunted site in English Heritage's care by...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Matlock
Derby Gaol 🔦
The gaol that stood on Friar Gate came down long ago, but its cells of 1756 survive — and are still open to an...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Matlock
National Emergency Services Museum 🔦
A Victorian police, fire and ambulance station on West Bar, where the original cells and one of the few surviv...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Matlock
The Derbyshire Blues
Blue coats, a Duke's headquarters and a Prince demanding billets: the true story of Derby in 1745, centred on...
1 ghosts
🏰 Castle · Staffordshire
Tutbury Castle
Mary, Queen of Scots' most hated prison, a phantom Keeper in full armour and the world-record ghost hunt of 20...
5 ghosts Ghost tours
👻 Haunted place · Matlock
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of whic...
👻 Haunted place · Matlock
Old Grammar School, Derby
The Old Grammar School, St. Peter's Churchyard, Derby, England, is now a Ladies Hairdressing Salon.
👻 Haunted place · Matlock
The Old Bell Hotel, Derby
The Old Bell Hotel in Derby, Derbyshire, United Kingdom, is one of Derby's oldest and largest coaching inns. I...
Haunted places in Devon
Haunted places in Dorset
🏛️ Stately home · Dorset
Athelhampton House
A Tudor manor in Thomas Hardy country with a Grey Lady, a phantom ape in the panelling and a cooper still tapp...
5 ghosts Ghost tours Stay overnight
👻 Haunted place · Weymouth
HM Prison Dorchester 🔦
A Victorian gaol raised over a Roman town house, silent since 2014 — a place where the history is documented a...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Weymouth
Nothe Fort 🔦
A D-shaped Victorian coastal fortress above Weymouth Harbour, voted one of the UK's spookiest locations in a 2...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Weymouth
Shire Hall, Dorchester 🔦
An 18th-century courthouse in Dorchester, where the Tolpuddle Martyrs were sentenced — and where organised gho...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Dorset
Athelhampton
Athelhampton is a settlement in the civil parish of Athelhampton and Puddletown, in Dorset, England, situated...
👻 Haunted place · Dorset
Dorset
Dorset is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire t...
👻 Haunted place · Bournemouth
Minstead
Minstead is a small village and civil parish in the New Forest, Hampshire, about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Lyn...
Haunted places in East Sussex
Haunted places in Essex
🏚️ House · Essex
Borley Rectory
The phantom nun, the wall writings and Harry Price: the story behind "the most haunted house in England" and w...
4 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Essex
Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker 🔦
Behind an ordinary bungalow among Essex trees, a tunnel leads to a Cold War bunker 125 feet underground, built...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Essex
Brentwood, Essex
Brentwood is a town in Essex, England. It forms part of the London commuter belt, lying 20 miles (32 km) north...
👻 Haunted place · Essex
Essex
Essex is a ceremonial county in the East of England. It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north...
Haunted places in Fife
🏰 Castle · Angus
Glamis Castle
The Queen Mother's childhood home, a bricked-up card game with the Devil and the secret that every heir is sai...
5 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · St Andrews
Cortachy Castle
Cortachy Castle is a castellated mansion House at Cortachy, Angus, Scotland, some four miles north of Kirriemu...
👻 Haunted place · St Andrews
Ethie Castle
Ethie Castle is a 14th-century castle covering 15,091 square feet (1,402.0 m2). It is located approximately 3...
👻 Haunted place · St Andrews
Garleton Castle
Garleton Castle is a courtyard castle, dating from the sixteenth century, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Ha...
Haunted places in Gloucestershire
👻 Haunted place · Gloucestershire
Gloucester Prison 🔦
A county gaol raised on the site of Gloucester Castle, closed since 2013 — and still the resting place of men...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Cheltenham
Prestbury, Gloucestershire
A village at the foot of the Cotswold escarpment, with medieval lanes, Cotswold stone and a reputation as Engl...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Cheltenham
Tewkesbury Town Hall 🔦
A neoclassical town hall with a courtroom above and police cells below — a building where Tewkesbury's busines...
1 ghosts
🏛️ Stately home · Gloucestershire
Woodchester Mansion 🔦
A Victorian Gothic mansion abandoned mid-build in a hidden Cotswold valley, never lived in and, they say, neve...
5 ghosts Ghost tours
👻 Haunted place · Gloucestershire
Chavenage House
Chavenage House, Tetbury, Gloucestershire is an English country house. A Grade I listed building, it is descri...
👻 Haunted place · Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Herefordshire to the north-wes...
👻 Haunted place · Gloucestershire
The New Inn, Gloucester
The New Inn, 16 Northgate Street, Gloucester, England, is a timber framed building used as a public house, hot...
Haunted places in Hampshire
👻 Haunted place · Hampshire
Glasshayes
Glasshayes House is a historic country house in Lyndhurst, in The New Forest, Hampshire. Used in the 20th cent...
👻 Haunted place · Hampshire
Hampshire
Hampshire is a ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Berkshire to the north, Surrey and W...
👻 Haunted place · Hampshire
Lyndhurst, Hampshire
Lyndhurst is a village and civil parish situated in the New Forest in Hampshire, England, about nine miles (14...
Haunted places in Kent
👻 Haunted place · Kent
Chatham Historic Dockyard
Around four centuries of Royal Navy history live on in the Ropery, slipways and warships of what is claimed to...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Broadstairs
Dover Castle 🔦
A Roman lighthouse, a Norman keep and a warren of cliff tunnels — the "Key to England" keeps as much history b...
👻 Haunted place · Canterbury
Fort Amherst Citadel 🔦
A Napoleonic fortress cut deep into the Chatham chalk, where the story goes that a headless drummer boy's tapp...
1 ghosts
🏘️ Village · Kent
Pluckley
A pretty Wealden village with a Guinness-backed reputation, a dozen named ghosts and the Screaming Woods on it...
6 ghosts Ghost tours
👻 Haunted place · Kent
Kent
Kent is a ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the no...
Haunted places in Lake District
Haunted places in Lancashire
🌫️ Landscape · Lancashire
Pendle Hill 🔦
The brooding Lancashire hill above the villages where the Pendle witches were accused in 1612, and where ghost...
4 ghosts Ghost tours
🏛️ Stately home · Lancashire
Samlesbury Hall
A black-and-white Lancashire manor of 1325 where the White Lady still waits for a lover her brothers murdered
4 ghosts Ghost tours
👻 Haunted place · Lancashire
Smithills Hall 🔦
A 15th-century manor on the moor's edge above Bolton, where a preacher's footprint is said to bleed each April...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Lancashire
Clitheroe Castle
Clitheroe Castle is a ruined early medieval castle in Clitheroe in the Borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, E...
👻 Haunted place · Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshi...
👻 Haunted place · Lancashire
Norden, Greater Manchester
Norden is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. Historically par...
👻 Haunted place · Lancashire
Owd Betts
Owd Betts is a Grade II listed public house near Norden, a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Gr...
Haunted places in Leicestershire
👻 Haunted place · Leicestershire
Beaumanor Hall 🔦
A Jacobean-style hall on the edge of Charnwood Forest, where a Victorian family seat became a secret wartime l...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Leicestershire
Belgrave Hall 🔦
A chequered-brick Queen Anne house on the edge of Leicester, where three centuries of family lives have left t...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Leicestershire
Bosworth Battlefield 🔦
On 22 August 1485 a king was killed in the fields near Ambion Hill, and the Plantagenet dynasty ended with him...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Leicestershire
Leicestershire
Leicestershire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Derbyshire, Nottingha...
Haunted places in Lincolnshire
👻 Haunted place · Lincolnshire
Revesby Abbey 🔦
A vanished Cistercian abbey, a Grade I house standing empty since the 1960s, and a Lincolnshire estate where t...
2 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Cleethorpes
Black Lady of Bradley Woods
The Black Lady of Bradley Woods is a ghost which reportedly haunts the woods near the village of Bradley, Linc...
👻 Haunted place · Cleethorpes
Bradley, Lincolnshire
Bradley is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 3 mile...
👻 Haunted place · Lincolnshire
East Kirkby
East Kirkby is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situate...
👻 Haunted place · Cleethorpes
Elsham, Lincolnshire
Elsham is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the...
👻 Haunted place · Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It i...
👻 Haunted place · Lincolnshire
Metheringham
Metheringham is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The popula...
👻 Haunted place · Lincolnshire
Metheringham Lass
The Metheringham Lass is the name given to an apparition which has been reported at RAF Metheringham.
👻 Haunted place · Lincolnshire
RAF East Kirkby
Royal Air Force East Kirkby or more simply RAF East Kirkby is a former Royal Air Force station near the villag...
👻 Haunted place · Cleethorpes
RAF Elsham Wolds
Royal Air Force Elsham Wolds or more simply RAF Elsham Wolds is a former Royal Air Force station in England, w...
Haunted places in Loch Lomond and The Trossachs
👻 Haunted place · Stirling
Kinneil House
A Hamilton seat west of Bo'ness, where painted chambers, a burnt palace and a desperate night-time escape have...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Stirling
Airth Castle
Airth Castle is a castle overlooking the village of Airth and the River Forth, in the Falkirk area of Scotland...
👻 Haunted place · Stirling
Bedlay Castle
Bedlay Castle is a former defensive castle, dating from the late 16th and 17th centuries. It is located betwee...
👻 Haunted place · Stirling
Linlithgow Palace
The ruins of Linlithgow Palace are located in the town of Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland, 15 miles (24 km)...
👻 Haunted place · Stirling
Stirling Castle
Stirling Castle, located in Stirling, is one of the largest and most historically and architecturally importan...
Haunted places in London
🏚️ House · Greater London
50 Berkeley Square
A Mayfair townhouse whose attic room was said to drive Victorian visitors mad, now quietly empty behind a blue...
4 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · London
Avenue House 🔦
A Victorian mansion in Finchley with an ink magnate's arboretum, a wartime basement shelter and organised publ...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · London
Charlton House 🔦
London's only complete Jacobean mansion, long linked with a prince who died at eighteen — and a house where or...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · London
City of London
Two thousand years of fire, plague, rebellion and rebuilding packed into a single square mile — the historic h...
1 ghosts
⛪ Abbey, church or graveyard · Greater London
Highgate Cemetery
London's grandest Victorian cemetery, home to Karl Marx, the Egyptian Avenue and the vampire panic of 1970
4 ghosts
🎭 Theatre · Greater London
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
The West End's oldest theatre site, where a ghost in a tricorne hat is welcomed as a sign the show will run
4 ghosts Ghost tours
🏰 Castle · Greater London
Tower of London
Nearly a thousand years of executions, disappearances and royal menageries, and a ghost for almost every tower
5 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · London
Valence House Museum 🔦
The last of Dagenham's five manor houses still stands behind its moat — more than seven centuries of tenants,...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · London
British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury ar...
👻 Haunted place · London
Bruce Castle
Bruce Castle is a Grade I listed 16th-century manor house in Lordship Lane, Tottenham, London. It is named aft...
👻 Haunted place · London
Cock Lane ghost
The Cock Lane ghost was a purported haunting that attracted mass public attention in 1762. The location was a...
👻 Haunted place · London
Enfield poltergeist
The Enfield poltergeist was a claim of supernatural activity at 284 Green Street, a council house in Brimsdown...
👻 Haunted place · London
Epping Forest
Epping Forest is a 2,400-hectare (5,900-acre) area of ancient woodland, and other established habitats, which...
👻 Haunted place · London
Hall Place
Hall Place is a historic building in the London Borough of Bexley in south-east London, built in 1537 for Sir...
👻 Haunted place · London
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of 9.14 million pe...
👻 Haunted place · London
The Grenadier
The Grenadier is a public house in Belgravia, London. It was originally built in 1720 as the officers' mess fo...
👻 Haunted place · London
Viaduct Tavern
The Viaduct Tavern is a Grade II listed public house at 126 Newgate Street, Holborn, London. It was built 1874...
Haunted places in Merseyside
Haunted places in Norfolk
🏛️ Stately home · Norfolk
Blickling Hall
Anne Boleyn's headless coach, a cursed father crossing bridges before cockcrow and a duelling knight: the Nati...
5 ghosts Stay overnight
🏛️ Stately home · Norfolk
Raynham Hall
Home of the Brown Lady, the ghost in the most famous spirit photograph ever taken, and a private house you can...
4 ghosts Stay overnight
👻 Haunted place · Norfolk
Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall is a ghost that reportedly haunts Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England. It became...
👻 Haunted place · Hunstanton
Docking, Norfolk
Docking is a village and ancient civil parish in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk borough of Norfolk, England....
👻 Haunted place · Norfolk
East Raynham
East Raynham is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Raynham, in the North Norfolk district...
👻 Haunted place · Cromer
Muckleburgh Collection
The Muckleburgh Collection is a military museum sited on a former military camp at Weybourne, on the North Nor...
👻 Haunted place · Norfolk
Norfolk
Norfolk is a ceremonial county in England, located in the East of England and East Anglia. It borders Lincolns...
👻 Haunted place · Hunstanton
RAF Bircham Newton
Royal Air Force Bircham Newton or more simply RAF Bircham Newton is a former Royal Air Force station located 2...
Haunted places in Northamptonshire
👻 Haunted place · Northamptonshire
Delapré Abbey 🔦
A Cluniac nunnery turned neo-classical mansion, set in meadows where a king was taken prisoner and a queen's c...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Northamptonshire
Sulgrave Manor 🔦
A limestone Tudor hall in a Northamptonshire village, built by a wool trader whose descendant would lead a new...
1 ghosts
Haunted places in Northern Ireland
🛏️ Hotel · County Antrim
Ballygally Castle
A 17th-century castle hotel on the Antrim coast with a turret Ghost Room no guest is allowed to sleep in
3 ghosts Stay overnight
⛓️ Prison or museum · County Antrim
Crumlin Road Gaol
Belfast's old prison, with a condemned cell where seventeen men died, a tunnel under the road and a noose that...
3 ghosts Ghost tours
👻 Haunted place · Northern Ireland
Moneymore
Moneymore is a village and townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It had a population of 1,897 in t...
👻 Haunted place · Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It has been vario...
👻 Haunted place · Northern Ireland
Springhill House
Springhill is a 17th-century plantation house in the townland of Ballindrum near Moneymore, County Londonderry...
Haunted places in Northumberland
🏰 Castle · Northumberland
Chillingham Castle
A 13th-century border fortress with a torture chamber, a bricked-up boy and England's most-repeated ghost clai...
5 ghosts Ghost tours Stay overnight
👻 Haunted place · Bamburgh
Chillingham, Northumberland
Chillingham is a village in Northumberland, England. It is situated approximately 6 km (3.7 mi) to the east of...
👻 Haunted place · Northumberland
Northumberland
Northumberland is a ceremonial county in North East England, on the border with Scotland. It is bordered by th...
👻 Haunted place · Alnwick
Schooner Hotel
The Schooner Hotel & Bar is a Grade II listed 17th century coaching inn and hotel located at 8 Northumberland...
Haunted places in Nottinghamshire
👻 Haunted place · Nottinghamshire
National Justice Museum 🔦
A courthouse, a gaol and a place of execution under one roof on High Pavement — where Nottingham's long story...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Nottinghamshire
Wollaton Hall 🔦
An Elizabethan prodigy house on its little hill above Nottingham, where the drama is in the stone, the deer pa...
1 ghosts
🍺 Pub / inn · Nottinghamshire
Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem
A cursed model galleon nobody dares dust, cave cellars that were once castle cells and a landlord who never le...
5 ghosts Ghost tours
👻 Haunted place · Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. The county is bordered by South Yorksh...
Haunted places in Oxfordshire
Haunted places in Peak District
Haunted places in Perthshire
Haunted places in Rutland
Haunted places in Scotland
👻 Haunted place · Fife
Balgonie Castle
On the south bank of the Leven, a 14th-century keep stands restored among roofless ranges — and, so the story...
2 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Ayrshire
Culzean Castle
A clifftop Robert Adam masterpiece above the Firth of Clyde, and a castle reputed to be home to at least seven...
2 ghosts
🛏️ Hotel · Midlothian
Dalhousie Castle
A 13th-century Ramsay stronghold turned castle hotel, where a Grey Lady taps on bedroom doors and dinner is se...
4 ghosts Ghost tours Stay overnight
🏰 Castle · Edinburgh
Edinburgh Castle
A fortress on a volcanic rock with a phantom piper beneath it, a headless drummer on the ramparts and a scienc...
5 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Edinburgh Vaults
Beneath Edinburgh's South Bridge lie some 120 forgotten chambers — once workshops, taverns and slum homes, and...
3 ghosts
🏰 Castle · Aberdeenshire
Fyvie Castle
Five towers, five families, a Green Lady who carved her name into a window ledge and a curse laid by Thomas th...
5 ghosts
⛪ Abbey, church or graveyard · Edinburgh
Greyfriars Kirkyard
The graveyard of Greyfriars Bobby, the Covenanters' Prison and a poltergeist accused of hundreds of physical a...
4 ghosts Ghost tours
👻 Haunted place · Loch Lomond and The Trossachs
Hill House, Helensburgh
In Mackintosh's grey-harled Helensburgh villa, the story goes that its first owner, publisher Walter Blackie,...
2 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Aberdeenshire
Kinnaird Head
Where a 16th-century castle became Scotland's first Commissioners-lit lighthouse — and a small tower nearby th...
1 ghosts
🏚️ House · Edinburgh
Mary King's Close
A 17th-century street buried beneath the Royal Mile, a room of dolls for a girl called Annie, and a plague myt...
4 ghosts Ghost tours
👻 Haunted place · Aberdeenshire
Abergeldie Castle
Abergeldie Castle is a four-floor tower house in Crathie and Braemar parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It stand...
👻 Haunted place · Orkney
Ackergill Tower
Ackergill Tower is located on the coast of Sinclair's Bay, about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of Wick, Caithness,...
👻 Haunted place · Ayrshire
Auchentiber
The hamlet of Auchentiber is in North Ayrshire, Parish of Kilwinning, Scotland. Auchentiber is four miles nort...
👻 Haunted place · Orkney
Brims Castle
Brims Castle is a ruined 16th century L-plan tower house on Brims Ness, Highland region, Scotland, to the sout...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Craigcrook Castle
Craigcrook Castle is a 6,701 square feet (622.5 m2) castle giving its name to the Craigcrook district of Edinb...
👻 Haunted place · Loch Lomond and The Trossachs
Edinample Castle
Edinample Castle is a late 16th-century tower house on the southern shores of Loch Earn near Balquhidder in th...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Edinburgh Festival Theatre
The Edinburgh Festival Theatre is a performing arts venue located on Nicolson Street in Edinburgh, Scotland. I...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Edinburgh Playhouse
Edinburgh Playhouse is a theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland. With 3,059 seats it is the largest theatre in Scotlan...
👻 Haunted place · Fife
HM Prison Castle Huntly
Castle Huntly is a castle in Scotland, now used as a prison under the name HMP Castle Huntly. It is located ap...
👻 Haunted place · Scottish Borders
Hermitage Castle
Hermitage Castle is a semi-ruined castle in the border region of Scotland. It stands in the remote valley of t...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Holyrood Palace
The Palace of Holyroodhouse, also known as Holyrood Palace, is the official residence of the monarch of the Un...
👻 Haunted place · Fife
Huntingtower Castle
Huntingtower Castle, once known as Ruthven Castle or the Place of Ruthven, is located near the village of Hunt...
👻 Haunted place · Isle of Skye
Knock Castle (Isle of Skye)
Knock Castle, also known as Caisteal Chamuis is a former stronghold of Clan MacLeod of Lewis and later, MacDon...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Lauriston Castle
Lauriston Castle is a 16th-century tower house with 19th-century extensions overlooking the Firth of Forth, in...
👻 Haunted place · Aberdeenshire
Leith Hall
Leith Hall is a country house in Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It was built in 1650, on the site of th...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Lennox Tower
Lennox Tower is a ruinous fifteenth-century tower house at Lymphoy, near the Water of Leith, between Balerno a...
👻 Haunted place · Fife
Lochleven Castle
Lochleven Castle is a ruined castle on an island in Loch Leven, in the Perth and Kinross local authority area...
👻 Haunted place · Fife
Macduff's Castle
MacDuff's Castle is a ruined castle near East Wemyss, in Fife, Scotland. The site is associated with the MacDu...
👻 Haunted place · Scotland
Meggernie Castle
Meggernie Castle is a castle in the heart of Perth and Kinross, in central Scotland. It is located halfway up...
👻 Haunted place · Aberdeenshire
Montrose Air Station Museum
The Montrose Air Station Museum is located to the north of Montrose, Angus, Scotland. Montrose has the distinc...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Neidpath Castle
Neidpath Castle is an L-plan rubble-built tower house, overlooking the River Tweed about 1 mile (1.6 km) west...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Pinkie House
Pinkie House is a historic house, built around a three-storey tower house located in Musselburgh, East Lothian...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Queensberry House
Queensberry House is a building of 17th-century origin which is now Category A listed by Historic Environment...
👻 Haunted place · Aberdeenshire
RAF Montrose
Royal Air Force Montrose or more simply RAF Montrose is a former Royal Air Force station in Forfarshire in Sco...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Royal Lyceum Theatre
The Royal Lyceum Theatre is a theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland, named after the Theatre Royal Lyceum and English...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Saltoun Hall
Saltoun Hall is an historic house standing in extensive lands off the B6355, Pencaitland to East Saltoun road,...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
The Scotsman Hotel
The Scotsman Hotel located in Edinburgh, Scotland, opened in 2001 in the Edwardian (1905) building which had h...
👻 Haunted place · Aberdeenshire
The Tolbooth, Aberdeen
The Tolbooth in Aberdeen, Scotland is a 17th-century former jail which is now operated as a museum. The museum...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
The Witchery
The Witchery is a restaurant on the Royal Mile, Edinburgh, adjacent to the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle. The...
Haunted places in Scottish Highlands
⚔️ Battlefield · Highland
Culloden Battlefield
The moor where the Jacobite cause died in under an hour, and where, every 16 April, the fallen are said to fig...
4 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Aviemore
Castle Grant
Castle Grant stands a mile north of Grantown-on-Spey and was the former seat of the Clan Grant chiefs of Strat...
👻 Haunted place · Inverness
Dornoch Castle
Dornoch Castle is situated opposite Dornoch Cathedral in the town of Dornoch, Scotland.
👻 Haunted place · Aviemore
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom, consisting of the northern part of the island of Gre...
Haunted places in Shropshire
Haunted places in Somerset
👻 Haunted place · Bath
HM Prison Shepton Mallet 🔦
The UK's oldest operating prison until 2013 — four centuries of hard labour, wartime deaths and unmarked grave...
2 ghosts
🏚️ House · Gloucestershire
The Ancient Ram Inn
A lopsided former inn on a Cotswold back street, said to stand on a pagan burial ground and to house England's...
5 ghosts Ghost tours
👻 Haunted place · Bath
Bradley Woods
Bradley Woods is an area of woodland in Wiltshire, south of Longleat Woods and north of Gare Hill.
👻 Haunted place · Somerset
George Hotel and Pilgrims' Inn, Glastonbury
The George Hotel and Pilgrims' Inn in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, was built in the late 15th century to ac...
👻 Haunted place · Somerset
Somerset
Somerset, archaically Somersetshire, is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Brist...
👻 Haunted place · Bath
Theatre Royal, Bath
The Theatre Royal in Bath, England, was built in 1805. A Grade II* listed building, it has been described by t...
Haunted places in Staffordshire
Haunted places in Suffolk
👻 Haunted place · Suffolk
Colchester Castle 🔦
Europe's largest Norman keep, raised on the foundations of a Roman temple — a place where the past sits very c...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Suffolk
Borley
Borley is a village and civil parish in rural north Essex, England. It lies close to the border with Suffolk a...
👻 Haunted place · Suffolk
Colchester
Colchester is a city in north-eastern Essex, England. At the 2021 census the built up area had a population of...
Haunted places in Surrey
🏛️ Stately home · Greater London
Hampton Court Palace
Henry VIII's Thames-side palace, with a Haunted Gallery, a Grey Lady and a ghost that closed a fire door on CC...
4 ghosts Ghost tours
👻 Haunted place · Surrey
Colnbrook
Colnbrook is a village in the Slough district in Berkshire, England. It lies within the historic boundaries of...
Haunted places in Wales
👻 Haunted place · Monmouthshire
Caldicot Castle 🔦
A Norman stronghold turned Victorian family home, where the Woodstock tower still carries the name of a king's...
1 ghosts
🛏️ Hotel · Powys
Craig-y-Nos Castle
An opera diva's Gothic castle that became a TB sanatorium, where children's laughter and arias are still said...
4 ghosts Ghost tours Stay overnight
🏛️ Stately home · Caerphilly
Llancaiach Fawr Manor
A Tudor manor frozen in 1645, where a housekeeper's petticoats rustle and ghostly children tug at the servants...
4 ghosts Ghost tours
👻 Haunted place · Swansea and Gower
Margam Castle 🔦
A vast Tudor Revival mansion above Port Talbot, where 4,000 years of occupation, a Cistercian abbey and the da...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Monmouthshire
The Skirrid Inn 🔦
A 17th-century inn beneath the Skirrid, one of several pubs claiming to be the oldest in Wales, where courtroo...
2 ghosts
🍺 Pub / inn · Monmouthshire
The Skirrid Mountain Inn
Wales' oldest pub, a courtroom upstairs, a hanging beam over the stairs and a landlady who still likes Room 3
4 ghosts Ghost tours Stay overnight
👻 Haunted place · Carmarthenshire
Aberglasney
Aberglasney House and Gardens is a medieval house and gardens set in the Tywi valley in the parish of Llangath...
👻 Haunted place · Cardiff
Llancaiach
Llancaiach is a hamlet just north of the village of Nelson, Caerphilly, Wales. It is close to Llancaiach Fawr...
👻 Haunted place · Monmouthshire
Llanvihangel Crucorney
Llanvihangel Crucorney is a small village in the community (parish) of Crucorney, Monmouthshire, Wales. It is...
👻 Haunted place · Cardiff
Nelson, Caerphilly
Nelson is a village and community in the County Borough of Caerphilly, Wales. It sits five miles north of Caer...
👻 Haunted place · Cardiff
South Wales
South Wales is a loosely defined region of Wales bordered by England to the east and mid Wales to the north. G...
👻 Haunted place · Wales
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Located on the island of Great Britain, it is bordered...
Haunted places in Warwickshire
🛏️ Hotel · Warwickshire
Ettington Park Hotel
The Gothic mansion that played Hill House in The Haunting (1963), where a governess walks into walls and libra...
5 ghosts Ghost tours Stay overnight
👻 Haunted place · Warwickshire
Guy's Cliffe House 🔦
A ruined riverside house above the Avon, where a hermit's legend, a Masonic chapel and a notorious execution o...
2 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Warwickshire
Middleton Hall 🔦
A medieval manor beside the A4091, where Domesday names, five centuries of Willoughbys and a long slow rescue...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Warwickshire
Tamworth Castle 🔦
A Norman motte-and-bailey above the Anker, where Mercian kings, Marmion champions and a Civil War garrison hav...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Warwickshire
Warwick Castle 🔦
A Norman mound above a bend of the Avon, where a dungeon in Caesar's Tower and the shadow of an execution stil...
2 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Warwickshire
Edge Hill, Warwickshire
Edge Hill is an escarpment and Edgehill is a hamlet in the civil parish of Ratley and Upton, Stratford-on-Avon...
👻 Haunted place · Warwickshire
Guy's Cliffe
Guy's Cliffe is a hamlet and former civil parish on the River Avon and the Coventry Road between Warwick and L...
Haunted places in Wiltshire
👻 Haunted place · Wiltshire
Littlecote House
An Elizabethan mansion on the River Kennet, where Tudor scandal, wartime paratroopers and the old legend of Da...
5 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Wiltshire
Black Swan Hotel, Devizes
The Black Swan Hotel is a traditional inn and hotel in Devizes, Wiltshire, England. Overlooking the Market Pla...
👻 Haunted place · Wiltshire
Devizes
Devizes is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It developed around Devizes Castle, an 11th-c...
👻 Haunted place · Wiltshire
Wiltshire
Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It borders Gloucestershire to the north, Oxfordshire t...
Haunted places in Worcestershire
👻 Haunted place · Worcestershire
Dudley Castle 🔦
A Norman motte, a slighted keep and a Tudor range lost to fire — Dudley Castle wears its long, bruised history...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Worcestershire
West Midlands (region)
The West Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of International Territorial L...
Haunted places in Yorkshire
🏚️ House · West Yorkshire
30 East Drive 🔦
An ordinary Pontefract council semi that became home to the Black Monk, said to be the most violent poltergeis...
3 ghosts Ghost tours Stay overnight
👻 Haunted place · Harrogate
Armley Mills 🔦
A fireproof woollen mill above the River Aire, where the mill race still runs and organised ghost hunts fill t...
1 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Harrogate
Bolling Hall 🔦
A 14th-century hall on a Bradford hillside, Royalist base during the siege of 1643 — and the night the town ex...
1 ghosts
🍺 Pub / inn · North Yorkshire
The Golden Fleece, York
York's most haunted pub: a 16th-century inn at the foot of the Shambles with fifteen claimed ghosts and four b...
5 ghosts Ghost tours Stay overnight
👻 Haunted place · York
Treasurer's House, York
Beneath a grand house in Minster Yard lies a Roman road — and, the story goes, the legionaries who once marche...
2 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Bradford
Great Britain
Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consist...
Haunted Britain: your questions answered
What is the most haunted place in the UK? ＋
Chillingham Castle in Northumberland is the place most often called the most haunted in Britain, closely followed by Pluckley in Kent (once listed by Guinness as England's most haunted village), the Ancient Ram Inn in Gloucestershire and the Tower of London. All have full guides here.
Can you stay overnight somewhere haunted? ＋
Yes — 17 places in this guide offer beds of their own (castle hotels, coaching inns, converted gaols), and every guide lists real places to stay within a few miles.
Are the ghost stories true? ＋
We tell every haunting as reported — by owners, guests, guides and paranormal investigators — and separate it from the documented history underneath, which is often real and sometimes tragic. Each guide lists its published sources.
When is the best time to visit haunted places in the UK? ＋
October is peak season for ghost tours and Halloween events, and many venues run overnight vigils through the winter. Summer suits the castles and grounds; several guides note anniversary dates when sightings are traditionally claimed.
Every legend here is told as reported, never as fact. Several sit on real and sometimes tragic history — executions, plague, murder, lost children — and the guides treat that with respect. Agnes writes a weekly column from this list on the BritStays blog.