๐๏ธ Haunted Stately Homes & Manor Houses in the UK
Behind the long drives and clipped lawns, Britain's great houses hold some of its best-documented hauntings: the Brown Lady photographed on the stairs at Raynham Hall, Anne Boleyn's coach at Blickling on the anniversary of her death, the white lady of Samlesbury who never stopped grieving. Many are National Trust or privately open houses, so you can walk the corridors the stories describe.
This page collects the haunted stately homes, halls and manor houses of the UK with their history, their ghosts, what guides and visitors report, and where to stay nearby.
8 places ยท guides with full ghost stories first.
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
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
๐๏ธ Stately home ยท 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
๐๏ธ Stately home ยท 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
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
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
Haunted Stately Homes & Manor Houses in the UK: your questions answered
Which stately homes run ghost tours? ๏ผ
Samlesbury Hall, Llancaiach Fawr, Woodchester Mansion and Plas Teg all run ghost evenings or overnight investigations; several National Trust houses run Halloween tours. Each guide gives current details.