Take this Harlow ghost tour to uncover spectral wanderers, sorrowful mothers, and ghostly whispers in haunted pubs and garden sculptures across this historic New Town.
Let’s start the tour at the railway station:
1. Harlow Town Railway Station, Station Road, CM20 2FD
Your journey opens amid modern bustle, but beneath the neon, echoes of ancient paths lie hidden.
Though the station is new, it sits near land walked for millennia.
Local lore tells of soft footfalls and distant murmurs on empty platforms, like ancient flint-knapping camps reawakening at dusk.
Walk to next stop: 8 minutes into Old Harlow via Old Harlow Way.
2. The Green Man Hotel, Mulberry Green, Old Harlow, CM17 0AJ
An ivy-clad coaching inn possibly dating to the 14th century, where the Grey Lady of Mulberry Green still wanders.
Legend says her infant died in a fire born of forbidden love with a blacksmith.
Patrons report seeing a misty woman in grey roaming the upstairs corridors, or hearing soft sobs and doors creaking as though someone unseen searches endlessly for her child.
Walk to next stop: 5 minutes south along Churchgate Street.
3. St Mary-at-Latton Church, Churchgate Street, CM17 9DN
Standing since the 12th century, this old churchyard is where shadowy silhouettes have been seen drifting among gravestones under moonlight.
Visitors report sudden chills in the nave, as if someone unseen brushes past with silent footsteps of prayer long ended.
Walk to next stop: 5 minutes southeast to Market Street.
4. Market Street, Harlow Town Centre
Once brimming with merchants, now still at night with lingering echoes.
Some passersby claim to hear phantom clip-clops of horseshoes on cobbles, haunting the place where coaches once trotted gold and gossip through town.
Walk to next stop: 6 minutes east toward the riverbank.
5. Harlow Mill Riverside
By the riverside, the legend of the miller’s young daughter echoes softly on misty evenings.
Locals recall hearing faint singing drifting through the reeds, sorrowful and melodic, as if someone still mourns by the water’s edge.
Walk to next stop: 7 minutes to Gibberd Garden.
6. Gibberd Garden, Marsh Lane, CM17 0NA
By day, a tranquil collection of paths, sculptures, and water features designed by Sir Frederick Gibberd.
By twilight, though, visitors report eerie shapes drifting among statues, turning serenity into something haunted and hushed.
The sculptures feel less static, almost alive in dimming light.
Walk to next stop: 10 minutes back toward the town centre.
7. Kingsmoor House, Paringdon Road
An elegant 18th-century manor once grand, now partly restored into apartments (you can look but not enter!).
The building stands silent, but locals swear its empty windows sometimes reveal a figure in Georgian attire, watching, waiting, in a house long absent of its masters.
Walk to next stop: 8 minutes toward the Civic Centre.
8. Harlow Sculpture Trail, Civic Centre Foyer, The Water Gardens
Harlow is “Sculpture Town”, but even beautiful art can carry unseen energy.
Among works by Rodin, Hepworth, and Moore, visitors have felt statues watch them in the gloaming, or sensed a sudden drop in air near Henry Moore’s ‘Family Group.’
Art and spirit mingle here under fluorescent lights.
Walk to sink into local ghosts with a final drink: 5 minutes to a central town pub of your choice.
On this Harlow ghost tour, which should take you about an hour, you’ll trace ancient trails, whispering churches, mourning figures, and haunted art installations. At dusk, walk under street lamps and listen—the past still lingers, silent but persistent.
Have you seen a ghost in Harlow or know of a haunted place we’ve not included? Get in touch and we’ll update our tour!
