UK Properties? Not a Ghost of a Chance

Have you ever considered the market for haunted houses in the UK? It may not be your idea of a great bargain at any price, but it’s a fact that there are haunted houses in Britain and there are people who would like to live in them, even if only for a while.

Whether it’s the monkey’s ghost, scrabbling to get out of Athelhampton Hall in Puddleton, Dorset or Sir Wolston Dixie’s daughter, walking the halls of Bosworth Hall in Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, there are ghosts, tales and properties for every taste, or fear, one could ever want.

Although it’s not a big market, there are houses available today, though they are usually a bit pricier than other more poorly-outfitted houses of a similar age. Many tend to be from the 1600’s forward, though a few have long histories of haunting.

If a house is not your style, then relax, because you can get goose-bumps in the haunted hotels, churches, stations, abbeys or castles that are sprinkled across Britain. Ghosts seem to have set themselves up for life after death in a wide variety of hauntings, including libraries, moats, towers and theaters.

There are haunted castles in Baldoon, Scotland and Denbigh, Wales; County Durham and North Yorkshire, and points in between. Castles are big, have a long history and quite obviously a propensity for bloody, gruesome happenings that left indelible marks for centuries.

If the upkeep on a castle is slightly beyond your budgetary constraints, don’t let that deter you from enjoying night after night of interrupted sleep in rooms you can rent tomorrow in hotels that still operate.

One such hotel is the Three Crowns hotel in Chagford, Devon. It was there that the poet and cavalier Sidney Godolphin fought bravely against steep odds, but during the sword-fighting he was shot and mortally wounded.

His friends carried him, after the fight, to the stone bench in what is now the front porch of the hotel, and it was there that he died. You may sit there, if you wish… and if, in your stay at the Three Crowns, you see him walking the halls in full regalia and wonderfully plumed hat, don’t be afraid, he means you no harm.

So when you think of UK properties markets, think of some of the hundreds of haunted abodes, locales and spots that you could buy or sell, if the previous occupants will just give you a ghost of a chance.