Britain on the Cheap

Guides will lead ghost walks at haunted Basing House in Old Basing, Hampshire, on the evenings of Oct. 28 and 29. Once the location of the largest private residence in Tudor England, Basing House offers layers of history dating back to the Norman Age. During the Civil War, Cromwell stormed the fortified building, leaving it [...]

Take your chances on the Ghost Tours Oct. 26 and 27 from the Discovery Centre in Winchester, Hampshire. The walk, £5/$8 pp, will start at 6:30 p.m. with tales of creepy happenings in the Discovery Centre itself, before heading on to find out more horrible histories in the Theatre Royal next door. The ghost of [...]

Want to up your chances of a ghostly Halloween encounter at Best Western PLUS Mosborough Hall Hotel outside Sheffield? Book one of the two oldest rooms in this 16th-century manor house hotel, now just £26.10/$45pp for a room for two. Stand on a certain spot in the rooms and you may hear the supernatural “Hello” [...]

Free Halloween fun is afoot at The Red House Museum in Christchurch, Hampshire, a former Georgian workhouse. On Oct. 27, children five and older can discover a “Skulls, Skeletons and Skull Duggery” hands-on workshop. On Oct. 29, families can make Halloween lanterns, which they can take with them later on the spooky night Ghost Tour [...]

Best Western Mosborough Hall Hotel in the Yorkshire village of Mosborough is offering rooms at £50.40/$79 per night. The hotel is near the Peak District and Sheffield. Like to risk a run-in with a resident ghost in this 16th-century manor house? Ask for one of the two original rooms.

With the highest castle-to-person ratio in the world – 641 castles to three million people – and a long, turbulent history of hangings, riots and rebellions, the ghosts of Wales do not go quietly. Check out some of their centuries-old grudges at their old haunting grounds. Book into a haunted hotel. Lady Gray is the [...]

The London Dungeon is celebrating its 35th birthday in July and August with a 35-day “summer of scare.”  Get up early—or brave the spirits and stay up all night—for the Dungeon’s actual birthday on Aug. 2. The first 35 customers will get in free.

Just in time for Halloween, the National Trust and its American affiliate, Royal Oak Foundation, have gone ghost hunting in their own properties! Lift a glass with your spectral friends at Belfast’s Crown Liquor Saloon on Great Victoria Street in the city center. The pub was a stop for travelers on the Great Northern Railway [...]