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.
Derby Theatre
Reports from Derby Theatre include strange sounds, shadowy figures and unexplained activity continuing after audiences and staff have left.
Pickford's House
📍 DE1 1DA
Pickford’s House reportedly has a gardener pacing the rear garden after closing. Other accounts place a boy downstairs and a dancing girl or gaunt, shouting woman inside the Georgian townhouse.
The Old Bell Hotel, Derby
The Old Bell’s white-capped serving maid is traditionally said to have been murdered by Jacobite soldiers in 1745. Room 29 has a separate story of lovelorn linen maid Mabel.
Ye Olde Dolphin Inne
Ye Olde Dolphin reportedly has a girl on the restaurant stairs and a Grey Lady in the bar. Its cellar legend concerns a woman waking during an illicit dissection.
The Three Crowns
📍 High Street · TQ13 8AJ
The ghost of Royalist poet Sidney Godolphin is said to appear on the porch and in guest rooms. The haunting is linked with his death during Civil War fighting in Chagford.
Churston Court
📍 Church Road · TQ5 0JE
Two hooded monks are said to appear in bedrooms and corridors, then disappear through walls. Staff also report candles going out in cold draughts and mysteriously relighting.
Exeter Cathedral
📍 1 The Cloisters · EX1 1HS
Exeter Cathedral folklore names forbidden lovers John and Martha, a monk and nun, searching Cathedral Close for each other. Separate reports describe a bowed nun crossing the green through a wall.
Old Church House Inn
📍 Torbryan · TQ12 5UR
A hooded monk reportedly haunts the bar, while bedroom accounts describe a floating arm and a man leaning over a sleeping child. Other stories concern faces appearing in the old wooden panelling.
Plymouth Gin Distillery
Black Friars’ Charles reportedly appears on an upper gantry and pinches women. Other distillery accounts describe a girl, hooded figure and dread in the ladies’ toilets, linked by legend to a stabbing.
Prysten House
📍 Catherine Street · PL1 2AD
Prysten House is associated with reported apparitions and unexplained disturbances, with local accounts describing strange experiences around the building or grounds.
Royal Citadel, Plymouth
Ghost stories linked to Royal Citadel, Plymouth include unexplained sightings, strange sounds and other experiences reported by visitors, staff or local witnesses.
Saltram House
📍 Plympton · PL7 1UH
Saltram’s hooded kitchen maid reportedly glides along corridors and through walls, a tradition linked to an unexplained murder. A ghostly child has also appeared at the foot of a resident’s bed.
The Barbican, Plymouth
Barbican traditions cluster around New Street, with apparitions and footsteps at the Elizabethan House. Nearby businesses report shadows and disturbances; a girl reportedly appears beside the fireplace at 54 Southside Street.
Fisherman's Cot
📍 Bickleigh · EX16 8RW
A giggling woman in white is said to wander the corridors and sit on guests’ beds. Outside, a headless horseman reportedly rides from the nearby bridge before vanishing at the inn.
Bettiscombe Manor
Bettiscombe’s ‘Screaming Skull’ supposedly shrieks and brings misfortune if removed. Tradition connects it with an enslaved African retainer, although a 1963 examination identified the remains as those of a prehistoric woman.
Bournemouth Town Hall
A soldier reportedly drinks water outside Bournemouth Town Hall, linked in local lore to its wartime hospital role. Other accounts describe phantom horses and carriages, and a cat inside several rooms.
Hotel Celebrity
📍 47 Gervis Road · BH1 3DD
A child ghost known as Nell Hyde is said to haunt the Bournemouth hotel, where guests have reported unexplained activity.
Ye Old George Inn
Ye Old George legend says Margaret Moore and her baby were bricked into a pantry after her Royalist romance. Scratching and crying reportedly sound at night, alongside falling pictures and disappearing bottles.
Corfe Castle
📍 The Square · BH20 5EZ
A headless woman in white reportedly stalks Corfe’s battlements, sometimes approaching visitors before vanishing. The National Trust links her legend to Civil War treason; other accounts describe lights and a wailing child.
Lulworth Castle
📍 East Lulworth · BH20 5QS
During Lulworth’s 1929 fire, firefighters reportedly saw a screaming woman at a window above a collapsed floor. Tradition identifies the Grey Lady; visitors describe nausea and sadness, particularly in the kitchen.
Smugglers Inn, Osmington Mills
📍 Osmington Mills · DT3 6HF
Smugglers Inn folklore pairs Pierre Latour with a revenue officer who supposedly overheard him from a chimney. Both allegedly died confronting each other; their figures reportedly appear in 18th-century maritime dress.
Crown Hotel, Poole
Crown Hotel folklore places two children beneath the larder, their cries heard inside and apparitions playing in the courtyard. Another report describes a white-nightdress girl leaning over an upstairs banister.
Portland Castle
📍 Liberty Road, Castletown · DT5 1AZ
Tudor-uniformed soldiers reportedly advance towards Portland Castle visitors. In the Tudor kitchen, an acrid burning smell is linked by tradition to emergency surgery supposedly performed there during the Civil War.
Athelhampton House
📍 Athelhampton House & Gardens · DT2 7LG
Two phantom duelists reportedly clash swords in the Great Chamber. The manor’s other ghost stories include a Grey Lady, a hooded priest and a pet ape linked with tapping inside the walls.
