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The GuardianOct 30

‘Expect goosebumps!‘: to celebrate Halloween, readers choose the spookiest places in the UK

From a ghostly hill fort on the South Downs to a haunted farmhouse in remote Northern Ireland, you guide us to some frightfully scary places • Tell us about an escape in the wilds of Scotland – the best tip wins a £200 holiday voucher Dunnottar Castle , perched on cliffs above the crashing North Sea, is one of Scotland’s eeriest places. The most haunting part is the Whigs Vault, where more than…

Opened in 1625, offers daytime or night-time ghost tours.

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  • Shepton Mallet prisonSightOpened in 1625, offers daytime or night-time ghost tours.
  • Elsewhere
  • Whitby AbbeyAttractionWhitby, United KingdomRuined arches and weathered stone above the Yorkshire coast, inspiring Dracula.
  • Pentre IfanSightPembrokeshire, United KingdomNeolithic burial chamber with a 16-ton capstone on three stone points.
  • Dunnottar CastleSightAberdeen, United KingdomPrisoners confined in dreadful conditions in 1685 in the Whigs Vault.
  • St Thomas à Becket churchSightHebden Bridge, United KingdomRoofless 13th-century structure with a hollowed-out stone tower.
  • The Four Crosses InnRestaurantStaffordshire, United KingdomMost haunted pub in England, now only open for tours.
  • Cooneen Ghost HouseSightFivemiletown, United KingdomAbandoned farmhouse with old poltergeist stories, glimpsed from the road.
  • Crocknagrally ForestTrailFivemiletown, United KingdomPerfect for a cold-weather ramble, wonderfully secluded and remote.
  • Nant GwrtheyrnSightLlŷn peninsula, United KingdomOnce abandoned quarrying village with a tale of Rhys and Meinir.
  • Slains CastleSightAberdeen, United KingdomCastle ruins on cliffs above the North Sea, evoking bats and aristocrats.
  • Chanctonbury RingSightWest Sussex, United KingdomIron age hill fort where walking the ring seven times may summon the devil.
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