๐ป Haunted Places in England
From haunted castles to pubs with a resident ghost, these are the most haunted places in England that you can actually visit. Each guide tells the story as reported, separates legend from history, and finishes with ghost tours, opening notes and places to stay nearby.
26 places ยท guides with full ghost stories first.
๐ฐ Castle ยท 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
๐ฐ Castle ยท Greater London
Tower of London
Nearly a thousand years of executions, disappearances and royal menageries, and a ghost for almost every tower
5 ghosts
๐๏ธ Village ยท 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
๐๏ธ House ยท 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
๐๏ธ House ยท 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
๐๏ธ Stately home ยท 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
๐บ Pub / inn ยท 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
๐๏ธ House ยท West Yorkshire
30 East Drive ๐ฆ
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
๐ฐ Castle ยท Devon
Berry Pomeroy Castle
A ruined Tudor mansion inside a medieval castle, hidden in a Devon wood and haunted, they say, by two very dif...
4 ghosts
๐๏ธ House ยท 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
๐๏ธ Stately home ยท 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
๐๏ธ Stately home ยท 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
โ๏ธ Prison or museum ยท 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
๐๏ธ Hotel ยท 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
โช Abbey, church or graveyard ยท Greater London
Highgate Cemetery
London's grandest Victorian cemetery, home to Karl Marx, the Egyptian Avenue and the vampire panic of 1970
4 ghosts
๐๏ธ Hotel ยท 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
๐ฐ Castle ยท Cumbria
Muncaster Castle
A Pennington family castle on the Cumbrian coast with a murderous jester, a haunted Tapestry Room you can slee...
4 ghosts Ghost tours Stay overnight
๐ซ๏ธ Landscape ยท Lancashire
Pendle Hill ๐ฆ
The brooding Lancashire hill above the villages where the Pendle witches were accused in 1612, and where ghost...
4 ghosts Ghost tours
๐๏ธ Stately home ยท 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
๐๏ธ Stately home ยท 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
๐บ Pub / inn ยท 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
๐บ Pub / inn ยท East Sussex
The Mermaid Inn, Rye
A 600-year-old smugglers' inn on a cobbled street, where duelling ghosts and a rocking chair keep guests awake
4 ghosts Ghost tours Stay overnight
๐ญ Theatre ยท 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
๐ฐ Castle ยท 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
๐๏ธ Stately home ยท Gloucestershire
Woodchester Mansion ๐ฆ
A Victorian Gothic mansion abandoned mid-build in a hidden Cotswold valley, never lived in and, they say, neve...
5 ghosts Ghost tours
๐บ Pub / inn ยท 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 Places in England: your questions answered
What is the most haunted place in England? ๏ผ
Opinions differ, but the places at the top of this page are the ones with the longest record of published sightings and investigations in England. Every guide lists its sources so you can judge for yourself.