The Most Haunted Places in England

The Most Haunted Places in England: 30 hand-picked locations. Each includes its story and GPS coordinates.

• 👻 Ancient Ram Inn Gloucestershire One of Britain’s most haunted houses — in the "Witch’s Room" a witch burned in the 1500s is said to linger. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🏰 Berkeley Castle Berkeley, Gloucestershire Ever since Edward II was murdered here in 1327, the castle has echoed with his ghostly screams.
• 🕯️ Borley Rectory England, Essex 'England's most haunted house' according to Harry Price — burned in 1939, demolished in 1944, but the stories live on.
• 🏰 Chillingham Castle Northumberland The radiant Blue Boy cried at midnight in the Pink Room — and a renovation uncovered a child’s bones walled up in blue cloth. 🛏 Book a night here
• 👻 284 Green Street — the Enfield Poltergeist London Furniture slid across the floors, knockings answered questions and an eleven-year-old girl spoke with a dead man's voice — the Enfield council house became the world's most famous poltergeist case.
• 🏰 Woodcroft Castle Helpston, Cambridgeshire Cries of mercy, mercy are still heard from the walls, the phantom siege of Dr Hudson.
• 🌲 The A3 at Burpham Guildford, Surrey A phantom car was seen leaving the A3, but the only remains found were a skeleton five months old.
• 👻 Avebury Stone Circle Marlborough, Wiltshire One of the most impressive mystical sites in England, and many have suffered for treating it lightly.
• 🏚️ Berry Pomeroy Castle Devon The White Lady and the Blue Lady — two of England's most documented ghosts. The ruin in Devon is so haunted that English archaeologists refuse to dig at night.
• 👻 Blickling Hall Blickling, Norfolk The ghost of Anne Boleyn returns headless in a carriage on every anniversary of her death.
• ⚔️ Bodmin Jail Bodmin, Cornwall Built in 1779. The ghosts of executed prisoners haunt the crumbling interior.
• 🏰 Castle Rising Castle King's Lynn, Norfolk Home to the howls of the mad queen Isabella, the She Wolf, imprisoned here in 1330.
• 👻 Chavenage House Tetbury, Gloucestershire A chilling tale of a phantom hearse that runs the blood cold of every visitor to Chavenage House.
• 🌲 Connington Crossing Peterborough, Cambridgeshire The crossing of death. Several fatal accidents have given it an ominous reputation.
• 🏚️ Corfe Castle Corfe Castle, Dorset An atmospheric ruin with a spectral white lady and a weeping child among several ghosts.
• 🏰 Dover Castle Kent A headless drummer boy is said to walk the tunnels — murdered and beheaded while carrying a sum of money. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🌲 Dozmary Pool Bolventor, Cornwall Legends march out of the mist around this ominous lake on Bodmin Moor.
• 🌲 Dunwich Dunwich, Suffolk The town that vanished beneath the sea. Its church bells are still heard tolling from the depths.
• 🏰 Farleigh Hungerford Castle Bath, Somerset A history of battle, murder and intrigue, and the ghosts do not disappoint.
• 👻 Cockpit Steps — the Headless Lady London In 1804 a Coldstream Guardsman was hospitalised with shock — he had seen a headless woman in a red dress rise out of the ground before him.
• 🛣️ Ratcliffe Highway — the Crossroads Grave London Murder suspect John Williams was buried at a crossroads with a stake through his heart — in 1886 gas workers dug up the skeleton, and the corner pub kept the skull.
• 🛣️ Shooter's Hill London On the most feared climb of the old Dover Road, robbers rotted in gibbet cages — and a woman in white is still said to be searching for the rest of herself.
• ⚔️ The Martyr's Elm, Brentwood — where William Hunter burned London Pupils have met a figure in the corridors and stairwells for generations — the school stands on the exact spot where nineteen-year-old William Hunter burned in 1555.
• ⛪ Holy Trinity, Hounslow — the burned monks London The abbot and his sacristan refused Henry VIII. They were burned at the stake outside The Bell inn — and are still seen on the spot.
• 👻 Syon House — the night the king's coffin split London The king's coffin rested here overnight. By morning the lead had burst — and a dog was lapping up what had leaked out. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🌲 White Webbs, Enfield Chase — the Gunpowder Plot's hiding place London The house was pulled down in 1790, but its doorway and fireplace were built into the pub across the lane — where a little girl in a white dress runs through the kitchens.
• 🌲 Goodwin Sands Deal, Kent Sandbanks said to be the ancient island of Lomea, and a notorious graveyard of ships.
• 👻 Ham House Petersham, Surrey The sleeping beauty of country houses, little changed since the seventeenth century.
• 🏰 Hampton Court Palace Surrey Henry VIII's palace — "The Grey Lady" Sybil Penn and Catherine Howard's screams in the haunted gallery. 🛏 Book a night here
• 🌲 Hickling Broad Hickling, Norfolk A phantom drummer echoes across the ice, a young lover who drowned in the nineteenth century.

FAQ

The Most Haunted Places in England — which places are included?

The list has 30 places, among them Ancient Ram Inn, Berkeley Castle and Borley Rectory.

Can you stay overnight at these places?

5 of the places on the list are hotels or inns where you can book a night. The rest are places you can visit.

Where are these places?

You will find them in United Kingdom.

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