Ghosts of Great Britain

3. Sudeley Castle

The castle is haunted by Janet, a former housekeeper, whose ghost can be seen dressed in a long pink and white skirt, white blouse and mobcap.

4. Prestbury

This village is haunted by a number of ghosts including a girl who plays the spinet at Sundial Cottage, the Black Aboot who is seen in the church and churchyard at Easter, All Saints Day and Christmas and a spectral shepherd and his herd in Swindon Lane.

5. Deerhurst

The churchyard is somwtimes visited by an aggressive looking ghost.

 

 Grampian

1. Fyvie Castle

Lilia Seton displeased her husband because she didn’t bear him a son. Her death came in May 1601. It remains a secret and then her husband married her niece.

 

 

 

2. Loch of Skene

Headless horses pull a ghostly carriage across the Loch on New Year’s Eve. It is said to contain the ghost of Alexander Skene, a warlock.

3. Crathes

The ghost of a Green Lady haunts the castle. She was killed by her father when he found out she was carrying and illegitimate child.

Hampshire

1. Bramshill House

It was Mistletoe Bough’s wedding day and they were playing hide and seek. She found an old chest and hid inside where she suffocated.

 

2. Netley Abbey

 

Since Blind Peter’s death, a loyal servant, he have guarded this place but people can see him only on Halloween.

 

3. Vernham Dean

The vicar was a very good one, always tended to his parishioners but his courage left him when the plague infected the village and lest then to face the disease alone.

 

 

4. St Margaret’s Chruch, East Wellow

Haunted by Florence Nightingale who visited the church and is buried there.

5. Winchester

A monk with a limp haunts Cathedral Close

6. Upper Canterton

On the 2^nd August, the ghost of King William II haunts the route the Rufus Stone, where he was murdered, to Winchester. This is the anniversary of his death.

7. Crondall

Haunted by several ghosts including; Roundhead soldiers, the sound of running footsteps – thought to be a murdered messenger and a ghostly flock of sheep.

 

 

 

Herefordshire

 

1. Kenchester

Haunted by the ghosts of Roman soldiers who march through the streets on nights when there is a full moon.

2. Aconbury

The ghost of Sir Clifford haunts the church.

3. Pengethley Manor

Haunted by a ghost called Harriet, who may have died in the fire here in the 1820s, she is particularly fond of two bedrooms in the hotel.

4. Aylton

Aylton Court is haunted by the ghost of a young girl who lived here in the mid-nineteenth century. She was accidentally shot by her brother, who tripped when he entered the house whilst carrying a shotgun.

5. Hoarwithy

The stretch of the River Wye that runs near here is haunted by the ghost of a woman sailing a boat at very high speed, often against the current.

 

Hertfordshire

 

1. Avot St Lawrence

George Bernard Shaw’s ghost has been seen at Shaw’s Corner.

2. Salisbury Hall

The laughing ghost of Nell Gwyn has been seen here. The hall is haunted by the ghost of a Cavalier who took his own life rather than be captured.

3. Hatfield House

Haunted by a phantom coach and four horses which drives into the entrance hall and up the stairs.

4. Hitchin

The priory is haunted by a Grey Lady. Also, on the 15^th June the ghost of a Cavalier rides from Highdown to the west of the town.

5. Minsden Chapel

Haunted by the ghost of a monk who appears on Halloween, his arrival is announced by the pealing of ghostly bells. .

Isle of Man

 

1. Castle Rushen

One woman was arrested for murder of her son who he loved with all her heart. And after she was hanged everyone found out her son had died of natural causes.

2. Peel Castle

Haunted by a spectral dog called Moddey Dhoo or Mauthe Dhoog.

3. Earystane

Is the favourite haunt of a ghostly dapple-grey horse whose owner was robbed and murdered. Only the ghost of the horse returns, usually to do a good turn.

Kent

1. Hall Place

 

Sir Thomas Atte’s wife saw how her husband was attacked and killed. She ran to the white tower and threw herself off.

 

2. Ightham Mote

Supporters of Guy Fawkes blamed Dame Dorothy Selby and locked her in a small secret room in this house and left her to die.

3. Rochester Castle

Lady Blanche de Warren and her husband were defending the castle against the Black Prince. The arrow went straight into her heart. She died instantly.

 

 

4. Scotney Castle

Arthur Darrell was a smuggler. One of the Darrells attacked and killed him. He threw his body into the moat, hoping it wouldn’t be discovered.

5. The Shipwright Arms

The captain was lost at sea. But he survived. He made it to the weather-boarded building and banged on the door. But he didn’t open. The next morning the owner opened the door and found her body.

6. Lympne Castle

The grounds are haunted by 6 Saxons who were murdered by the Normans.

7. Canterbury

The city is haunted by the ghost of Archbishop Simon Sudbury who was murdered during the Wat Tyler revolt of 1381.

8. Winchelsea

The church is haunted by the ghosts of 2 highwaymen, named Weston, who were hanged in 1782. It’s also haunted by the ghosts of a man in a red uniform.

Lancashire

 

1. Chingle Hall

Catholic martyr was executed for heresy in 1679. And he returned to his birthplace to find comfort.

 

2. Heskin Hall

One Catholic woman was hanged instead of priest when an army of Roundheads came.

3. Rufford Old Hally

Elizabeth Hesketh loved her husband very much. And when he didn’t return from the war she refused to eat. She grew weak and then died.

4. Samlesbury Hall

Dorothy Southworth fell in love wuth the heir to a local knightly house, but only problem was that my love was a Protestant. They had to elope but her brother killed him and she was sent to convent where she became insane.

5. Smithills Hall

George was questioned long but he wouldn’t give in. They made him mad and he stamped his foot on the ground and told them that his footprint would remain there forever. He was questioned again and then burnt alive as a heretic.

6. Preston

The streets are haunted by a headless, spectral hound – sometimes thought to be an omen of a tragic event to come.

7. Black Abbey Road, Accrington

The site of the former Black Abbey is haunted by the ghost of a beautiful young girl whose piercing screams terrorize any witnesses.

8. Burnley

In and around the parish church of St Peter, the ghost of a spectral hound known as Striker or Trash can be seen.

9. Old Hall, Wycoller

The ghost of a murder victim, Old Beth, haunts the grounds of the old hall.

 

Leicestershire

1. Bosworth Hall

Sir Wolston Dixie’s daughter, Ann was in love with the gardener’s son. Her father set mantraps in the grounds of their house. And she stepped into one of the traps. She lost too much blood and died.

2. Blackfriars Hall

The ghosts of a prior and a priest haunt the Hall where they served in 1918.

3. Bradgate Park

On Christmas Eve the ghost of Lady Jane Grey is seen at her former home. She was executed in 1554.

4. Belgrave

Haunted by the ghost of a pale woman who walks amongst the graves.

5. Market Bosworth

The roads heading are haunted by the ghost of a headless soldier.

Lincolnshire

 

1. Gunby Hall

Sir William’s daughter had to marry a man of equal status. But she loved with one of their servants. They was on the point to elope and father found out and shot her love and she committed suicide.

 

2. Thornton Abbey

Sir Thomas de Grethem was accused of witchery and black magic. They put him on trial for lax living and he was found guilty.

3. Thorpe Hall

Donna Leonora Oviedo loved a man. But he refused her feelings and told her he was happily married, so she let him go. Once he had gone there was nothing left for her and she took her own life.

 

4. Utterby Halt

John Edward Lancaster was making his way back to Ludborough Station when he stepped straight ino the path of the train and he was killed instantly.

5. Haverholme Priory

The ghost of a Gilbertine Canoness can be heard walking on the gravel that once surrounded the priory.

6. Bolingbroke Castle

Haunted by a witch who has taken the form of a hare.

7. Maidenwell

Ostler’s (Oslears) Lane is haunted by a phantom carriage and horses, whose coachman has his head on a box beside him.

8. Digby

The churchyard is haunted by the ghost of a man on a grey pony.

 

London

 

1. Camlet Moat

During a siege at Burwell Castle Geoffrey De Mandville got careless, he removed his helmet to wipe his brow and was shot by a first class archer. He died a week later from the arrow wound to his neck.

2. Enfield Chase

The open spaces and footpaths around the Chase are haunted by the ghost of a red-cloaked knight.

3. Somerset House

Haunted by the ghost of Lord Nelson who has been seen walking across the Quadrangle.

4. St Paul’s Cathedral

The entrance to the Kitchener Memorial Chapel (previously the All Soul’s Chapel) is haunted by the ghost of a clergyman.

5. Westminster Bridge

A ghost boat passes under one side of the bridge but never emerges from the other side.

6. Ham House, Richmond

Haunted by the ghost of the Duchness of Lauderdale, who is seen scratching at the walls.

 

 

Norfolk

 

1. Castle Rising

Isabella tried to make her marriage better, she hated the men he chose as his favourites. She sailed to France to settle and told her husband she wouldn’t return to England unless he removed his favourites from court, but he didn’t do this. So she fell in love with Roger Mortimer and made her husband suffer. People say she went mad during the last few years of her life.

2. Scole Inn

Emma loved her husband but he thought she had affair. His jealously engulfed him and murdered her.

3. Felbrigg Hall

The ghost of William Windham II haunts the library, he started the collection of books housed here.

4. Norwich Castle

Haunted by the ghost of a woman wearing a black Victorain style dress.

5. Syderstone

A phantom highwayman has been seen on the common.

6. Thetford

Warren Lodge used to be a leper’s house and is haunted by the ghost of a former inmate.

Northamptonshire

 

1. The Falcon Hotel

Arthur refused to re-shoe Parliamentarians’ horses and was hanged from a walnut tree in my garden.

2. Rinqstead

The ghost of Lydia Attley, a murder victim, haunts the lanes around the village.

3. Northampton

The Grosvenor Centre shops are haunted by a ghostly, hooded figure that appears after close of business.

4. Rotheringhay

The church is haunted by the sound of a ghostly funeral march, believed to represent the music that played after the deaths of Richard, Duke of York and his son, both killed in 1460.

5. Barnwell Castle

The ghost of Marie LeMoyne haunts the castle where she was walled up and died.

Northumberland

 

1. Bellister Castle

Lord Blenkinsopp was just a poor minstrel. He was walking along the bank of the River Tyne when he heard a pack of dogs, howling and barking. They tore him to shreds.

2. Haltwhistle

A ghostly bridal procession in medieval dress has been seen between here and Alston.

3. Wallington Hall

Haunted by the ghostly sounds of packing and unpacking and wings are heard beating against the windows.

4. Alwinton

Haunted by the ghost of a monk with no hands, feet or face.

North Yorkshire

 

1. Busby Stoop Inn

Thomas Busby was a thief and a drunkard.once he got his hammer and killed his father-in-law with it. People hanged him for his crime and left his body on the gibbet opposite the inn.

 

2. Scarborough Castlec

Piers Gaveston was made Earl of Cornwall, nobody could tell him what to do. They tried to banish him again but he came back. Sadly, once they rose against Edward and declared war; I became a target. Finally they caught him and he was taken to Warwick and executed.

3. Whithy Abbey

Constance de Beverley was a nun in the Abbey. She fell in love with a knight. She knew it was wrong but her love for him was powerful and she couldn’t stop herself. When her crime was discovered, they bricked her up in the dungeon and left me her to die.

4. Flixton

Has a reputation for werewolf sightings.

5. Ruswarp

The road between Ruswarp and Sleights is haunted by Goosey, the ghost of a murdered village simpleton.

6. Staithes

Just off Boulby Cliff, the ghost of a girl can be seen walking in the air along the old cliff line. She died here when the cliff collapsed under her.

Nottinghamshire

 

1. Newstead Abbey

Black Friar wanted revenge because his home was sold to the Byron family. When one of the family died he would turn up and laugh.

 

2. Harlow Wood

 

 

Elizabeth Shepherd was on the way home when a man stacked her. He killed her and left her by the road.

 

 

3. Scrooby

John Spencer killed 2 men and he was dragging one of the bodies to the river when a man came by and he had to escape. He was caught a few days later and executed at Nottingham SummerAssize.

4. Thorney

The lanes around the village are haunted by the ghost of Tom Otter, a highwayman hanged for the mufder of his wife.

5. Rufford Abbey near Ollerton

Haunted by the ghost of a spectral monk.

6. Nottingham Castle

Queen Isabella, wife of Edward II, is said to haunt the castle – she has also been seen at Castle Rising Castle in Norfolk.

 

Oxfordshire

 

1. Courtiers House

Sarah Fletcher’s husband left her. He decided to marry another woman. She hanged herself from their bed with a pocket-handkerchief and a small piece of cord.

 

2. Godstow Nunnery

 

Rosamund Clifford loved Henry II. They had been together for several years but his wife Eleanor was jealous and she poisoned Rosamund.

 

3. Weston Manor Hotel

Sister Maude was in one the monk’s cells when he was caught. They blamed her, they said she led them astray. They burned her at the stake outside the monastery.

4. Cumnor

The ghost of Amy Robsart haunts the site of Cumnor Hall, the wife of Robert Dudley, she died mysteriously in 1560.

5. Witney

A strange black cloud haunts the road from Witney to Burford. Anyone driving throughit experience a feeling of terror.

6. Deddington

The ghost of Maurice Frost, the vicar, haunts the vicarage

 

Powys

 

1. St Nicholas Church

John Davies was trying to help the widow Morris and her daughter, Jane, run their farm. His hard work impressed Jane and she abandoned her fiancé in favor of him. Robert Parker, Jane’s ex-fiance crossed up him (stole some money and left evidence against his enemy) and John was found guilty and sentenced to death.