Reportedly haunted locations in the United Kingdom
A 19th-century illustration of Cock Lane. The haunting took place in the three-storey building on the right.
There are a number of reportedly haunted locations in the United Kingdom.
England
- Airfields around the country are said to have paranormal activity arising from the spirits of airmen who died in World War II.[1] Airfields include:
- the former RAF Bircham Newton in Norfolk.[2]
- the former RAF East Kirkby in east Lincolnshire.[3]
- the former RAF Elsham Wolds, near the A15 just north of Barnetby in North Lincolnshire.[4]
- Ancient Ram Inn, in Gloucestershire. It has been featured on various paranormal television programmes.
- Belgrave Hall in Leicester, attracted attention in 1999 when a white figure was captured on CCTV. One theory is it is the daughter of a former owner.[5]
- 50 Berkeley Square is reputed to be the most haunted house in London.[6]
Borley Rectory in 1892
- Borley Rectory in the village of Borley, Essex, England.
- The Black Lady of Bradley Woods is supposedly seen near Bradley, Lincolnshire.
- Brislington, once an attractive Somerset village but now a neighbourhood in Bristol, is reputed to have many ghosts.[7]
- Brookside Theatre in Romford
- Bruce Castle in Tottenham, North London.[6]
- Dartmouth, Devon, ancient maritime town has many ghost stories.[8]
- Edge Hill, Warwickshire the location of the first battle of the English Civil War, the Battle of Edge Hill. Ghostly sightings and noises of the battle have been reported ever since the war.
- Ettington Park Hotel, a neo-Gothic building in Warwickshire.
- Hampton Court Palace, home of King Henry VIII of England. On 21 December 2003, CCTV footage allegedly showed someone in 16th-century clothes and no face closing a fire door that, though locked, was constantly being opened without anyone near it.[9]
- RAF Metheringham is the location for the phenomenon known as the Metheringham Lass.[10]
- Minsden Chapel, a ruin in Hertfordshire, is reputed to be visited at midnight on All Hallows Eve by a ghostly monk who climbs now-vanished stairs while the lost bells toll.[11]
- The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall.
- Renishaw Hall, a stately home in Derbyshire.[12]
- Tower of London
- The Royal Standard of England, a pub in Buckinghamshire.[13]
Northern Ireland
- Ballygally Castle
- Springhill – the 17th-century Plantation House, home for nearly 300 years of the Lenox-Conyngham family.[14]
Scotland
Wales
- In Llanfihangel Crucorney, The Skirrid Mountain Inn, one of the oldest public houses in Wales, is reputed to be home to several ghosts.[15]
- Llancaiach Fawr, a Tudor manor house near Nelson in the Caerphilly County Borough is allegedly haunted by a number of ghosts. In 2007, the Guardian listed Llancaiach as one of the top ten haunted places in the United Kingdom.[16]
- Plas Teg is a Jacobean house located near the village of Pontblyddyn between Wrexham and Mold. The house has featured on Living's Most Haunted programme on two occasions. The second occasion was featured as part of the Halloween Most Haunted Live! series on 31 October 2007. It was also featured in Ghost Hunting With... Girls Aloud in 2006, where the girls visited the house as their first location, where they claimed to have experienced paranormal activity.[17]
See also
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- Cock Lane ghost
- List of ghosts
- List of Most Haunted episodes
- List of reportedly haunted locations in the world
- Reportedly haunted locations in Canada
- Reportedly haunted locations in the United States
References
- ↑ Halpenny, Bruce Barrymore. Ghost Stations. ISBN 978-0-86303-314-8.
- ↑ Halpenny, Bruce Barrymore. Ghost Stations 3. ISBN 978-1-871448-12-2.
- ↑ Halpenny, Bruce Barrymore. Ghost Stations Lincolnshire. ISBN 978-1-871448-08-5.
- ↑ Halpenny, Bruce Barrymore. Ghost Stations 1. ISBN 978-1-871448-10-8.
- ↑ "UK Museum gives up the ghost". BBC News. BBC. February 2, 1999. Retrieved December 18, 2006.
- 1 2 Underwood, Peter (1992). The A–Z of British Ghosts. London: Chancellor Press. ISBN 1-85152-194-1.
- ↑ Taylor, Ken (2005). Brislington Ghosts & Mysteries. Redcliffe Press. ISBN 978-1-904537-38-0.
- ↑ Taylor, Ken (2006). Dartmouth Ghosts & Mysteries. Richard Webb. ISBN 978-0-9536361-5-0.
- ↑ "Ghost caught on palace camera". BBC News. BBC. 20 December 2003. Retrieved December 18, 2006.
- ↑ Buxton, James (1998). The Black Book of Modern Myths. Random House. ISBN 978-0-09-953362-7.
- ↑ Puttick, Betty (1994). "The Haunting of Minsden Chapel". Ghosts of Hertfordshire. Countryside Books. pp. 82–85.
- ↑ "The Renishaw coffin". The world's strangest mysteries. New York: Gallery Books. 1987. pp. 353–5. ISBN 0-8317-9678-2.
- ↑ The Royal Standard of England, Forty Green. Beaconsfield & District Historical Society.
- ↑ An Old Ulster House, Mina Lenox-Conyngham, UHF Publications (2005), p160
- ↑ "'Haunted hanging' pub on sale". BBC Online. 2002-10-31. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
- ↑ Paul Torpey (2007-10-31). "Travel: Top Ten Haunted Places in the UK". Guardian. London. Retrieved 2012-06-11.
- ↑ Morgan, Gareth. "Girls Aloud' haunted mansion ordeal". Western Mail. 25 Nov 2006
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