🍺 Haunted Pubs & Inns in the UK
The British pub has been collecting ghosts for as long as it has been pouring ale. Coaching inns with hanging beams, smugglers' haunts on lonely moors, cellars cut into castle rock — the haunted pubs of the UK carry stories that landlords have been retelling for centuries, and plenty of them have bedrooms upstairs where you can test the tales yourself.
Below are the most haunted pubs and inns in Britain, each with its legend and its real history, what regulars and guests have reported, and where you can eat, drink and sleep nearby.
5 places · guides with full ghost stories first.
🍺 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
🍺 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
🍺 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
🍺 Pub / inn · 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
🍺 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 Pubs & Inns in the UK: your questions answered
What is the most haunted pub in the UK? ＋
The Skirrid Mountain Inn in Monmouthshire, Jamaica Inn in Cornwall and Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem in Nottingham are the pubs most often called the most haunted in Britain. Each has a full guide on this page.
Can you stay in a haunted pub? ＋
Many haunted inns have rooms — the Skirrid Inn, Jamaica Inn, the Mermaid Inn in Rye and the Golden Fleece in York all take overnight guests. The guide for each says which rooms carry the stories.