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Theobalds Park, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire

Theobalds Park, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire

Theobalds Park is a large mansion house built in the eighteenth century and extended in the nineteenth century. It is now a luxury hotel. The ghost of Lady Meux (1847-1910) has been seen on the main staircase.

The Crown & Horseshoes PH, Enfield

The Crown & Horseshoes PH, Enfield

In the 1970’s a small old lady was seen inside The Crown & Horseshoes pub, in Horseshoe lane, by a man looking in through the window. The pub was locked up at the time and the man was waiting for the landlord to return and open up the pub. When the landlord arrived, the two of them searched the entire building but found nobody.

Bare Hall or Torrisholme Hall, Morecambe, Lancashire

Bare Hall or Torrisholme Hall, Morecambe, Lancashire

According to ‘Townships: Poulton, Bare and Torrisholme’, A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 8 (1914), Bare Hall is said to be haunted. Bare Hall (originally known as New Hall) is a sandstone Grade II listed building and was built in 1830 by John Lodge, one of the original members of the Poulton local Board of Health but since 1984 it has been an independent Retirement Home.

Henhow Cottage, Martindale, Cumbria

Henhow Cottage, Martindale, Cumbria

I found the following in The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain by John H. Ingram (1897):

Bloody Corner, Northam, Devon

Bloody Corner, Northam, Devon

The following was e-mailed in by a reader:

Bloody Corner is thought to be the spot at which either King Alfred the Great or the Earl of Devon slayed Hubba the Dane. A plaque is now situated at this spot.