Haunted Places in the UK & Ireland
Explore haunted hotels, pubs, castles and other places across Britain and Ireland. Search by name, location or reported activity, and find places within a chosen distance.
Church Walk, Hampstead
📍 Church Walk · NW3
A house on Church Walk was associated with persistent unexplained sighing, traditionally linked to a story that a mother had killed her young child there.
East Heath Road
📍 NW3 1AH
Witnesses have described a smiling elderly man in a brown coat following them along East Heath Road, only to fade away when they turn to confront him.
Finchley Road and Frognal Junction
📍 Finchley Road at Frognal · NW3 6EP
Old local folklore placed a woman in white near the corner of Finchley Road and Frognal, with reports said to date back to the early nineteenth century.
Hampstead Heath
📍 NW3
Stories from the heath include a young girl, a red-haired woman, shuffling footsteps and a phantom waitress reported in different parts of the area.
Kenwood House
📍 Hampstead Lane · NW3 7JR
Ghost stories linked to Kenwood House include unexplained sightings, strange sounds and other experiences reported by visitors, staff or local witnesses.
King William IV, Hampstead
📍 77 Hampstead High Street · NW3 1RE
The pub is said to have two apparitions: a young girl seen staring through the windows from outside, and the ghost of a doctor's murdered wife inside.
Old Bull and Bush
📍 North End Way · NW3 7HE
Accounts connected with Old Bull and Bush describe ghostly figures, unexplained noises and other unusual phenomena that have contributed to its supernatural reputation.
The Flask, Hampstead
📍 14 Flask Walk · NW3 1HE
The Flask, Hampstead is associated with reported apparitions and unexplained disturbances, with local accounts describing strange experiences around the building or grounds.
The Holly Bush, Hampstead
📍 22 Holly Mount · NW3 6SG
Customers have reportedly given food or drink orders to a waitress who later proves not to be a member of staff, giving the pub one of Hampstead's better-known ghost stories.
The Priory, Church Row
📍 Church Row · NW3 6UU
A nineteenth-century legend claims a builder bricked one of his daughters into this Church Row property, after which a young girl's ghost was said to haunt the house.
The Spaniards Inn
📍 Spaniards Road · NW3 7JJ
The Spaniards Inn mixes literary history with several long-running ghost stories. Dick Turpin is among the figures traditionally connected with the pub, and phantom horses, unexplained footsteps and apparitions have all been reported around the old Hampstead building. Another legend centres on two Spanish brothers whose jealousy is said to have ended violently and left a restless presence behind. The pub’s links with Dickens, Keats and Dracula add cultural interest, but its supernatural reputation stands on a separate body of local stories and reported encounters.
Well Walk
📍 NW3 1BT
Accounts describe knocking, soft footsteps and whispering in an upstairs room; one guest later reported a woman in blue ascending the staircase and disappearing into that room.
Hampton Court Palace
📍 Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey · KT8 9AU
Ghost stories linked to Hampton Court Palace include unexplained sightings, strange sounds and other experiences reported by visitors, staff or local witnesses.
Byron Hill Road
📍 HA2 0JD
A house on Byron Hill Road is locally said to be haunted by a kindly nurse who had been given the property by a grateful patient.
Foot of Church Hill, Harrow
📍 Church Hill · HA1 3EA
Former Harrow School hatter Robert Burns recalled reports of a white-sheet apparition near the foot of Church Hill, prompting armed locals to gather in hopes of catching the supposed ghost.
St Mary's Churchyard, Harrow-on-the-Hill
📍 Church Hill · HA1 3HL
St Mary's churchyard has a phantom-nun tradition. One Great War-era episode may have been a verger in a sheet, though the prank may itself have drawn on older local lore.
The Grove, Harrow School
📍 1 Church Hill · HA1 3HN
The Grove is traditionally said to be haunted by Richard Layton, the sixteenth-century rector of Harrow who became one of Thomas Cromwell's agents during the Dissolution.
West Street, Harrow-on-the-Hill
📍 West Street · HA1 3EF
One Harrow tradition places Spring-Heeled Jack on West Street, where the bizarre leaping apparition is said to have terrified a local schoolmaster.
Uxbridge Road, Harrow Weald
📍 Uxbridge Road · HA3 6DG
Writer Rowland Grey claimed to have seen the ghost of miser Daniel Dancer on what is now Uxbridge Road, dressed in straw and apparently bleeding from a head wound.
Weald Lane Haunted Bench
📍 Weald Lane · HA3 5HE
A young man in a cream trench coat is said to sit motionless on a Weald Lane bench before vanishing abruptly; a similar figure has also been reported near Courtenay Gardens.
Headstone Manor House
📍 Headstone Recreation Ground, Pinner View · HA2 6PX
A 2008 overnight vigil reportedly produced claims of nursery cries, poltergeist-like activity, a figure on the staircase, monk-like apparitions and a man dressed in sackcloth.
Roxeth Primary School
📍 Brickfields, Byron Hill Road · HA2 0JA
A former member of staff reported a spectral ginger cat roaming the school, sometimes disappearing through a wall into a stockroom; she believed it might represent a former teacher.
Former Leighton House
📍 103 Alexandra Road · NW4 2RX
At the former Leighton House, demolished long ago, disembodied voices heard during the 1960s were attributed locally to the ghost of actress and socialite Lillie Langtry.
Former Tenterden Hall Site
📍 NW4
Before Tenterden Hall was demolished in the 1930s, a dark monk-like figure was reportedly seen on the staircase of the former school.
