Halloween seems to become a bigger event every year. While some of us think of it as just a bit of trick or treating, Halloween has escalated and become a national event and is generally accepted as being quite a fun holiday. If you’re not satisfied by dressing up, hollowing out a pumpkin and eating your way through a year’s worth of sugar, there are actually some genuinely spooky parts of the UK that have a fascinating and long history of ghoulish goings-on. To celebrate this, we’ve teamed up with Mio Navman to put together five of the scariest places you can drive to this Halloween, all of which are sure to get you into the real spirit of Halloween.
Kent: THE VILLAGE OF PLUCKLEY
Listen out for the blood curdling screams of a ghost around the Brickworks in Pluckley Heath, or take a trip to the Church of St Nicolas, where Lady Dering is buried within three lead lined coffins. Locals to this date report seeing her meander the pews looking for her dead baby. If this isn’t enough then why not take a ride down Dicky Buss’s lane, where a headmaster, known to have taken his own life in the 19th century, is regularly seen.
POST CODE: TN27 0QS
Built up an appetite chasing Lady Dering? Pop into the Black Horse in the centre of the village using the Near Me mode on your Mio Navman 575, for hot food, a busy bar and a warm welcome
York: 35 STONEGATE
Countless visitors have felt the icy touch of invisible fingers and heard eerie screechings from the attic in this 700 year old house. Numerous ghostly apparitions have been seen drifting around the house and when top ghost hunter Derek Acorah came to investigate the house, he was grabbed by an angry spectre and shortly after the crew were seen running out screaming. Restless spirits still wander the rooms.
POST CODE: YO1 8AS
Scared of spectres? Click Near Me on your Mio Navman 575 to escape to the spectacular York Castle Museum for a look into Victorian Britain
Minstead Hampshire: THE RUFUS STONE
In a clearing near Minstead stands the Rufus Stone, marking the site where William Rufus, the second son of William the Conqueror, met his untimely death. On August 2nd 1100 William joined a hunting party in the New Forest and, at some stage found himself alone with Sir Walter Tyrrell. According to the inscription upon the stone, an arrow fired by Tyrrell at a stag glanced off an oak tree and struck Rufus “on the breast of which he instantly died”. The King’s lifeless body was placed onto the cart of a charcoal burner named Purkiss and transported to Winchester for burial. As the cart bounced and jolted over the rough forest paths it is said to have left in its wake a trail of blood which the ghost of Rufus follows each year on the anniversary of his sudden demise.
POST CODE: SO43 7HD
Need to bed down after a day of dodging arrows? The Bartley Lodge Hotel is two miles away and can be found using Near Me on your Mio Navman 575
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