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Astley Hall
Chorley, Lancashire
The Resident Spirits of a Tudor Inheritance
Astley Hall was built around 1580 by the Charnock family, who held it for many generations before it passed through the hands of the Brooke, Townley-Parker and Tatton families. Th…
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Blakesley Hall
Birmingham, West Midlands
The Woman in the Bluish Gown
Blakesley Hall is a timber-framed Tudor house built in 1590 by Richard Smallbroke, a man of local importance to Yardley. The house remained in the Smallbroke family until 1685 whe…
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21 Henley Street
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
Whispers Above the White Lion
21 Henley Street is the surviving section of Stratford-upon-Avon's White Lion Inn, an Elizabethan coaching inn on Henley Street documented from the late 16th century (with an earl…
Pub
Bay Horse Inn
Newton Abbot, Devon
Crying Children of the Upper Floors
The Bay Horse Inn, located at 64 North Street in Ashburton, Devon, dates back to the 17th century. It was originally established under the name the Barnstable Inn. The pub held a…
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Bettiscombe Manor
Bettiscombe, Dorset
The Screaming Skull of Bettiscombe Manor
The manor house was built around 1694, replacing an Elizabethan one. In 1830, Azariah Pinney's descendants returned to Bettiscombe Manor accompanied by a family black slave from N…
Hotel
The Anglesey Arms Hotel
Caernarfon, Gwynedd
The Hanged Man's Unrest
Originally a Custom House, possibly dating from 1736, the Anglesey Arms is a traditional Welsh inn built in the shadow of Caernarfon Castle and overlooking the Menai Strait. The h…
Castle
Balmoral Castle
Ballater, Aberdeenshire
The Ghost of John Brown
Balmoral Castle has been the Scottish residence of the Royal Family since 1852, when Prince Albert purchased the estate for Queen Victoria. The original 1390s tower house (Bouchmo…
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Barlborough Hall
Barlborough, Derbyshire
The Grey Bride of the Battlements
Barlborough Hall is a Grade I listed Elizabethan mansion built in 1583 by Sir Francis Rodes, a judge in the Court of Common Pleas, with architect Robert Smythson. The hall remaine…
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The Anchor Inn
Warwick, Warwickshire
The Landlord's Damnation
The origins of The Anchor Inn trace back to at least 1813, when the property originally belonged to Thomas Morris and his family. A definitive turning point came in 1853, when the…
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The Blue Bell Inn
Belmesthorpe, Rutland
The Ghostly Hunchback of the Well
The Blue Bell Inn in Belmesthorpe dates back to the 17th century, serving for centuries as a vital cornerstone of this historic daughter settlement of Ryhall. Constructed primaril…
Castle
Alloa Tower
Alloa, Clackmannanshire
The Abbot's Curse and the Dungeon's Spectral Guardians
Built in the 14th century as the home of the influential Erskine family, later the Earls of Mar, Alloa Tower is one of Scotland's best-preserved fortified houses. The Erskines wer…
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Ancient High House
Stafford, Staffordshire
The Restless Residents of the High House
The Ancient High House in Stafford, England, is the largest surviving Tudor timber-framed townhouse in the country, constructed around 1595 for the wealthy Dorrington family. Buil…
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Ty Aberconwy
Conwy, Gwynedd
The Haunted Medieval Merchant's House
Aberconwy House is the oldest secular domestic building in Wales, with timbers dating back to 1417, originally a medieval traders house or warehouse. Since then it has had a long…
Castle
Ardvreck Castle
Loch Assynt, Sutherland
The Weeping Daughter of Ardvreck
Ardvreck Castle is a ruined 15th-century stronghold built around 1490 by the MacLeods of Assynt on a dramatic promontory jutting into Loch Assynt. For nearly two centuries, it ser…
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Abbeydale Picture House
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Jack and the Actress
Abbeydale Picture House opened in Sheffield in 1920 as the city’s largest and most luxurious cinema, seating around 1,560 people. Known as a “picture palace”, it featured lavish i…
Castle
Binhamy Castle
Stratton, Cornwall
The Sorrowful Knight of Binhamy
Binhamy Castle, also known as Blanchminster Castle, was a fortified manor house built around 1335 by Ralph de Blanchminster, Lord of the Manor of Stratton, following his receipt o…
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Avebury Manor
Marlborough, Wiltshire
The Weeping Cavalier & The Hooded Lady
Avebury Manor stands on the site of a Benedictine priory founded in 1114. After the priory passed to Fotheringhay College in 1411, parts of its earlier buildings were likely incor…
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Blickling Hall
Aylsham, Norfolk
The Phantom Queen and Her Spectral Coach
Blickling Hall, situated in Norfolk, England, is a spectacular Jacobean stately home built on the site of a late medieval manor. The original medieval estate possessed deep histor…
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Beckington Castle
Frome, Somerset
The Grey Lady & Shadow Figure
Beckington Castle was built in the early 17th century by William Long, a wealthy merchant capitalizing on the region’s booming wool trade. Despite its imposing name, the Grade II*…
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Barley Mow
Wimbourne Minster, Dorset
The Shadow in the Bar
The Barley Mow Inn dates back to the 16th century, originally built as a humble thatched drover's cottage. Situated along historic trade and livestock routes near Wimborne Minster…
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Acton Burnell Castle
Shrewsbury, Shropshire
The Woman in White Lace
Acton Burnell Castle is a 13th-century fortified manor house built between 1284 and 1293 by Robert Burnell, Bishop of Bath and Wells and Chancellor to King Edward I. The castle is…
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Atlantic Hotel
Newquay, Cornwall
Spirits of the Atlantic
The Atlantic Hotel stands on a headland above Newquay Bay with the sea on three sides. It was designed by architect Silvanus Trevail for his Cornish Hotels Company, which leased t…
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Alveston Manor Hotel
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
The Edwardian Girl in the Bedchamber
Alveston Manor stands on the northern edge of Stratford-upon-Avon as a predominantly Elizabethan manor house dating to around 1500, though the site's history stretches back centur…
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Barham Court
Maidstone, Kent
The Voices in the Stairs
Barham Court is a Grade II* listed English country house in Teston, Kent, with origins dating to the 12th century when it was held by Reginald Fitz Urse, one of the knights involv…