List of reportedly haunted locations in the United Kingdom

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The following is a list of reportedly haunted locations in the United Kingdom.

The kingdom is reputedly the most haunted landmass in the world, with England as the most haunted country, reporting the densest coverage of purported ghost sightings and paranormal experiences both per person, and by geographical area.^[1] Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are also rich in ghost lore (though far less densely populated), and there is not a single village, town or city which does not have reportings of ghosts and ghost belief going back multiple centuries.^[1]

England

• Ancient Ram Inn, in Gloucestershire. It has been featured on various paranormal television programmes.
• Arundel Castle in West Sussex, with the first Earl of Arundel who built the structure as its most famous reported ghost.^[2]
• 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.^[3]
• Bodmin Jail in the town of Bodmin, Cornwall is a disused prison turned into a hotel and visitor attraction, the building supposedly houses a number of ghosts.

• Borley Rectory in the village of Borley, Essex, England. No longer extant.
• Brislington, once an attractive Somerset village but now a neighbourhood in Bristol, is reputed to have many ghosts.^[4]
• Chillingham Castle, a medieval castle in Chillingham, Northumberland.^[5]
• Dartmouth, Devon, ancient maritime town has many ghost stories.^[6]
• Flitwick Manor in Bedfordshire, reputedly haunted and appeared on Strange but True? in 1995.^[7][8]
• Hoghton Tower, a historic house and stately home in the village of Hoghton, Preston is the second most haunted place in England.^[9]
• 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.^[10]
• Renishaw Hall, a stately home in Derbyshire.^[11]
• Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool.^[12] It was visited by paranormal investigators on Most Haunted.

Buckinghamshire

• Chenies Manor House, a country house in the village of Chenies.^[13]
• The Chequers Inn, a pub in the town of Amersham.^[13]
• Cock Lane, a street in the town of High Wycombe.^[13]
• The Crown Inn, a pub in the village of Penn.^[13]
• Finnamore Wood, a forest near the village of Marlow.^[13]
• Four Ashes Road, in the village of Hughenden Valley.^[13]
• Fulmer, a village near the town of Gerrards Cross.^[13]
• Gerrards Cross, a town in south-east Buckinghamshire.^[13]
• The George and Dragon, a pub in the village of West Wycombe.^[13]
• The Greyhound Inn, a pub in the village of Chalfont St Peter.^[13]
• Hellfire Caves, a system of man-dug caves in West Wycombe.^[13]
• High Wycombe railway station, in the town of High Wycombe.^[13]
• Medmenham Abbey, a country house near the village of Medmenham.^[13]
• Missenden Abbey, a country house in the village of Great Missenden.^[13]
• The Royal Standard of England, a pub in the hamlet of Forty Green.^[14]
• St Lawrence's Church, in the village of West Wycombe.^[13]
• St Bartholomew's Church, in the village of Fingest.^[13]
• The White Hart, a pub in the village of Chalfont St Peter.^[13]

Lincolnshire

• Bradley Woods, a forest near the village of Bradley, its haunted by the Black Lady of Bradley Woods
• RAF East Kirkby, a former airfield near the village of East Kirkby.^[15]
• Elsham.^[16]
• RAF Metheringham, a former airfield near the village of Metheringham.^[17]

London

• 50 Berkeley Square, a townhouse in the City of Westminster.^[18]
• The British Museum^[19]
• Brookside Theatre, in the borough of Havering.^{[citation needed]}
• Bruce Castle, a manor house in the borough of Haringey.^[18]
• 284 Green Street, a council house in the borough of Enfield
  .
• Cock Lane, a street in the City of London.
• Hall Place, in the London Borough of Bexley.^[20][21]
• Hampton Court Palace, a royal palace in the borough of Richmond upon Thames.^[22]
• Langham Hotel, a hotel in the City of Westminster.^[23]
• Tower of London, a castle in the borough of Tower Hamlets.
• Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, a theatre haunted by the "Man in Grey".

The New Forest

• Angel & Blue Pig, a coaching inn in Lymington^[24]
• Beaulieu Abbey, a ruined Cistercian Abbey in Beaulieu^[25]
• Beaulieu Palace House, the seat of Baron Montagu of Beaulieu^[25]
• Bolton's Bench, a hill surrounded in dragon folklore outside Lyndhurst^[26]
• Breamore House, an Elizabethan manor house built on the site of Breamore Priory^[25]
• Fleur de Lys, the oldest pub in the New Forest, at Pilley^[24]
• Fox and Hounds, an 18th-century coaching inn on the High Street, Lyndhurst^[24]
• Glasshayes House, a country house and former hotel redesigned by Arthur Conan Doyle in Lyndhurst^[26]
• Henry VIII on the Hurst Spit^[25]
• Red Lion Pub, Boldre^[24]
• William Rufus, outside Minstead^[26]
• Waterloo Arms, a 16th-century thatched pub in Pikes Hill, Lyndhurst^[24]

Norfolk

• RAF Bircham Newton, a former airfield near the village of Docking.^[27]
• Raynham Hall, a country house near the village of East Raynham
• Maids Head Hotel, a hotel in the City of Norwich

Warwickshire

• Edge Hill, a hamlet in southern Warwickshire.^[28]
• Ettington Park, a country house in the village of Ettington.
• Coombe Abbey, a former abbey which is now a hotel, located in the civil parish of Combe Fields

Northern Ireland

• Ballygally Castle
• Springhill – the 17th-century Plantation House, home for nearly 300 years of the Lenox-Conyngham family.^[29]

Scotland

Wales

• In
  public houses in Wales, is reputed to be home to several ghosts.^[30]
• Llancaiach Fawr is a Tudor manor house near Nelson in the Caerphilly County Borough. In 2007, the Guardian listed Llancaiach as one of the top ten haunted places in the United Kingdom.^[31]
• 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.^[32]

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