Where Somerset Keeps Its Ghost Stories
Somerset’s haunted reputation is not built around one single “most haunted” site.
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Introduction
For this page, Somerset is treated as the historic county at the heart of the West Country, bordered by Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Dorset and Devon, with the Bristol Channel to the north and west. Historic county geography matters because Somerset’s ghost stories do not always fit neatly inside modern council lines: Bath, North Somerset, the Mendips, the Levels, Taunton, Glastonbury and Exmoor-facing districts all preserve their own local traditions, while travel routes and older estates often cross today’s administrative boundaries. Wikishire’s historic-county index describes Somerset in these older county terms, and its interactive county map follows the Historic Counties Standard rather than only modern local-government borders.[Wikishire]wikishire.co.ukOpen source on wikishire.co.uk.
Why Somerset’s ghost stories cluster around prisons, ruins and old roads
Somerset’s haunted geography is unusually varied. It has nationally known visitor attractions, such as Shepton Mallet Prison, Glastonbury Tor, Glastonbury Abbey, Dunster Castle and Wookey Hole, but also smaller road and woodland traditions such as Sally in the Wood and Brockley Combe. Visit Somerset actively packages some of this material as a “Paranormal Trail”, which is a useful sign of how ghost lore has become part of county tourism as well as local storytelling.[visitsomerset.co.uk]visitsomerset.co.ukOpen source on visitsomerset.co.uk.
The county’s stories tend to fall into five overlapping types:
Historic punishment and confinement. Shepton Mallet Prison, Taunton Castle and the aftermath of the Monmouth Rebellion turn legal violence into ghost tradition. These are places where the historical record already contains imprisonment, trial, execution or fear, so later haunting claims have a ready-made emotional setting.[sheptonmalletprison.com]sheptonmalletprison.comOpen source on sheptonmalletprison.com.
Religious ruins and monastic memory. Glastonbury Abbey and Wookey Hole both use the image of monks, holy water or sacred landscape, but in very different ways: Glastonbury as a ruined abbey dense with Arthurian and Christian legend, Wookey as a cave system where a witch story is tied to a monk from Glastonbury.[glastonburyabbey.com]glastonburyabbey.comOpen source on glastonburyabbey.com.
Castles and elite houses. Dunster Castle’s reported floating lights, “man in green” and dungeon-skeleton traditions are attached to a site with a thousand-year defensive and domestic history. Taunton Castle and the Castle Hotel also show how castle precincts can become ghostly even when the buildings have been heavily altered for modern use.[National Trust]nationaltrust.org.ukOpen source on nationaltrust.org.uk.
Roadside apparitions. Sally in the Wood and Brockley Combe belong to a classic British category: the haunted road, where a sudden figure, phantom coach or vanishing horseman is said to appear in a place already associated with darkness, speed, bends, woodland or local danger.[wshc.org.uk]wshc.org.ukWiltshire and Swindon History Centre Sally in the WoodWiltshire and Swindon History Centre Sally in the Wood
Folklore rather than “case evidence”. Cadbury Castle’s Arthurian riders and Wookey Hole’s witch are not modern witness-led ghost cases in the same way as some prison or theatre stories. They are older-style legends, shaped by place-name tradition, antiquarian interest, tourism and the human urge to explain striking natural or archaeological features.[cambridge.org]cambridge.orgOpen source on cambridge.org.
Shepton Mallet Prison: Somerset’s darkest visitor attraction
Shepton Mallet Prison, also known as Cornhill or “The Mallet”, is the county’s most commercially visible haunted site. Its own history page says it first housed inmates in 1625 and corrects the common claim that the prison itself dates from 1610, explaining that 1610 refers to the Bridewell Act rather than the opening of this particular prison. It closed as a working prison in 2013 and now operates as a heritage-led visitor attraction.[Shepton Mallet Prison]sheptonmalletprison.comOpen source on sheptonmalletprison.com.
That long history makes the haunting claims easy to understand even without accepting them literally. A prison is already a place of locked doors, echoing wings, isolation, fear and routine violence; ghost tours do not have to invent atmosphere from scratch. The modern attraction offers ghost tours and paranormal-themed visits, and the site’s own promotional material describes reported activity, unexplained sounds and stories of lingering spirits.[Shepton Mallet Prison]sheptonmalletprison.comShepton Mallet Prison Ghost Stories from Behind Bars ~ The White LadyShepton Mallet Prison Ghost Stories from Behind Bars ~ The White Lady
The best-known prison apparition is the “White Lady”. Shepton Mallet Prison’s own paranormal account says visitors and staff have reported sightings, sounds and a sweet perfume associated with her, while later retellings connect the figure to a woman in white, a wedding dress, a murder story or execution legend. These details vary, which is important: the White Lady is locally famous, but the story works more like prison folklore than a cleanly documented historical biography.[Shepton Mallet Prison]sheptonmalletprison.comShepton Mallet Prison Ghost Stories from Behind Bars ~ The White LadyShepton Mallet Prison Ghost Stories from Behind Bars ~ The White Lady
Recent journalism shows how the prison’s haunted reputation has been folded into dark tourism. In 2024, The Guardian described an overnight horror-games feature at Shepton Mallet, noting the prison’s opening in 1625, closure in 2013, present visitor use and reputation for hauntings. The writer did not report seeing a ghost, which is a useful corrective to more breathless accounts: the experience was frightening because the building, history and setting were powerful, not because a supernatural event was proved.[The Guardian]theguardian.comOpen source on theguardian.com.
Glastonbury: monks, Avalon and the problem of too much legend
Glastonbury is one of Somerset’s most myth-saturated places. The abbey’s official history says the earliest historical evidence for the monastery comes from late seventh-century charters and matching archaeological evidence, while also noting that by the time of Abbot Dunstan the story of a much earlier Christian foundation had gained popularity. That distinction matters for hauntings: Glastonbury has always mixed documented religious history with stories that grew through devotion, pilgrimage, politics and local imagination.[glastonburyabbey.com]glastonburyabbey.comOpen source on glastonburyabbey.com.
The abbey ruins are commonly said to be haunted by monks or former inhabitants. Visit Somerset’s paranormal material links the ruins with the resting-place tradition of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere and with reported monastic spirits, while Glastonbury’s own visitor-facing myth pages preserve a range of ghostly and psychic traditions around the abbey. These claims should be treated as living legend rather than settled history.[visitsomerset.co.uk]visitsomerset.co.ukOpen source on visitsomerset.co.uk.
Glastonbury Tor adds a different kind of haunted atmosphere. The National Trust describes the Tor as a spiritual magnet for Pagans and Christians over centuries, and warns that many tales have become blended and embellished over time. That is a fair guide to the whole Glastonbury problem: the place is genuinely historic, genuinely resonant and genuinely important to British myth-making, but its stories are often layered so thickly that separating early evidence from later romance is difficult.[National Trust]nationaltrust.org.ukNational Trust History and legends of Glastonbury TorNational Trust History and legends of Glastonbury Tor
For ghost-story readers, Glastonbury is most valuable not because it offers the strongest witness evidence, but because it shows how sacred geography becomes haunted geography. Ruined abbeys invite stories of chanting monks; holy hills invite stories of hidden worlds; Arthurian claims invite images of sleeping kings, lost queens and restless guardians. The uncanny feeling comes from accumulation.
Dunster Castle: floating lights, dungeon skeletons and the weight of a thousand years
Dunster Castle is one of Somerset’s most atmospheric haunted-house settings because its known history is already dramatic. The National Trust describes it as an ancient castle and later country home, with a commanding site used since the Middle Ages. Its history page traces the site from a Norman timber castle built after 1066, through medieval fortification, Civil War damage and Victorian remodelling by Anthony Salvin.[National Trust]nationaltrust.org.ukOpen source on nationaltrust.org.uk.
The National Trust’s own “most haunted places” page lists Dunster Castle among reported haunted sites, naming floating lights, a man in green and dungeon skeletons found chained together among its strange encounters. This is stronger than a purely anonymous ghost-list entry because it comes from the organisation that manages the property, although it still presents the material as reported haunting tradition rather than verified paranormal fact.[National Trust]nationaltrust.org.ukOpen source on nationaltrust.org.uk.
The dungeon-skeleton story has become especially important to Dunster’s eerie reputation. Local reporting on ghost tours at the castle says Sir Walter Luttrell told a story of a skeleton found in the nineteenth century, with later legend describing a seven-foot man manacled by wrists and ankles. The same account notes that dogs are said to be troubled by the area near the find spot, a detail typical of haunted-house folklore because it gives the story a recurring sensory hook.[West Somerset Free Press]wsfp.co.ukWest Somerset Free Press Spooky goings on as ghost tours return to castleWest Somerset Free Press Spooky goings on as ghost tours return to castle
Dunster’s ghost lore works because the site has several histories at once: fortress, elite residence, Civil War survival, Victorian reimagining and National Trust heritage property. A visitor walking through such a place is already moving through staged layers of time. Ghost stories make that layering emotionally legible.
Taunton, Sedgemoor and the ghosts of political memory
Somerset’s most historically charged haunting traditions gather around the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 and its aftermath. The Battle of Sedgemoor was fought on 6 July 1685 near Westonzoyland; the Battlefield Trust describes it as beginning around 2am, lasting about three hours and ending in the destruction of the rebel army. Historic England’s battlefield report places the site in the parishes of Chedzoy and Westonzoyland and sets it within the political crisis over James II and the succession.[battlefieldstrust.com]battlefieldstrust.comBattle of SedgemoorBattle of Sedgemoor
The ghost stories attached to Sedgemoor are usually battlefield apparitions: galloping horsemen, phantom soldiers, cries across the drains and spectral bands near King’s Sedgemoor Drain. These are not the best-documented ghost claims in Somerset, but they fit a very old pattern in British folklore, where battlefields become places of repeated sounds, marching figures and anniversary dread.[somersetandbathparanormal.co.uk]somersetandbathparanormal.co.ukThe Battle of SedgemoorThe Battle of Sedgemoor
Taunton Castle gives the same history an urban focus. The Museum of Somerset is based in Taunton Castle, a Grade I listed scheduled ancient monument in the county town, and the South West Heritage Trust notes that the castle has housed a museum for well over a century.[South West Heritage Trust]swheritage.org.ukmuseum of somersetmuseum of somerset
The connection with the Bloody Assizes is central. In 2025, The Guardian reported on the Museum of Somerset’s exhibition marking the 340th anniversary of the Monmouth Rebellion, describing Taunton Castle as one of the sites of the Bloody Assizes where rebels were told they would be hanged, drawn and quartered. The article also quoted local curatorial interpretation that the rebellion remains vividly imprinted on West Country memory because its consequences were so cruel.[The Guardian]theguardian.comOpen source on theguardian.com.
That is why Taunton’s ghost stories should not be dismissed as merely decorative. Whether or not a spectral woman in white, a monk or a Judge Jeffreys-related presence has ever appeared at the Castle Hotel or castle precinct, the haunting tradition is attached to a real regional trauma: rebellion, defeat, exemplary punishment and long memory. Local reporting says the Castle Hotel in Taunton is reputedly haunted by ghosts connected to the Monmouth Rebellion, while Visit Somerset mentions reported encounters with a spectral woman, footsteps and unexplained experiences there.[somersetlive.co.uk]somersetlive.co.ukdark somerset ghosts castle hotel 1624252dark somerset ghosts castle hotel 1624252
Wookey Hole and Cadbury Castle: when folklore is older than the ghost hunt
Some Somerset stories are less about apparitions seen by modern witnesses and more about folklore anchored in striking landscape features. Wookey Hole is the clearest example. The cave attraction describes the Witch of Wookey Hole as a story dating back nearly 1,000 years, in which villagers accuse a cave-dwelling woman of witchcraft and seek help from Glastonbury Abbey; a monk, Father Bernard, confronts her and the legend ends with the witch turned to stone.[Wookey Hole]wookey.co.ukOpen source on wookey.co.uk.
The power of the Wookey story lies in the physical cave feature: a stalagmite interpreted as the petrified witch. Visit Somerset repeats the version in which Father Bernard blesses water from the river and throws it over the witch, instantly turning her to stone. In folklore terms, this is an origin story for a natural formation, a moral tale about fear of witchcraft and a tourist legend all at once.[visitsomerset.co.uk]visitsomerset.co.ukOpen source on visitsomerset.co.uk.
There is also a useful sceptical wrinkle. Archaeological and cave-history sources note that human remains found in the caves were traditionally linked with the witch, but later analysis identified the remains as male. That does not “disprove” the legend, because legends do not depend on one forensic claim, but it does show why Wookey should be read as folklore rather than as a solved historical haunting.[Wikipedia]WikipediaWookey Hole CavesWookey Hole Caves
Cadbury Castle near South Cadbury belongs to the Arthurian side of Somerset’s haunted landscape. The hillfort is associated with King Arthur’s Camelot, and a 2006 Antiquaries Journal article notes that the sixteenth-century antiquary John Leland was the author of the identification that helped link Cadbury Castle with Arthur.[Cambridge University Press & Assessment]cambridge.orgOpen source on cambridge.org.
The ghostly version of that tradition says Arthur and his knights ride out from the hill, sometimes at Midsummer, Christmas Eve, full moon or every seventh year, depending on the telling. These shifting dates are a clue that the story is folklore, not a fixed witness case. It remains important because it shows how Somerset’s “hauntings” include legendary presences that are not simply dead individuals, but sleeping kings, hidden armies and the hope that an old power might return.[The Modern Antiquarian]themodernantiquarian.comOpen source on themodernantiquarian.com.
Bath’s haunted theatre and the gentler ghosts of performance
Bath’s Theatre Royal gives Somerset a different kind of haunting: not battlefield trauma or prison darkness, but backstage superstition. The theatre opened in 1805 and is a Grade II* listed Georgian theatre; its long performance history, including fire, rebuilding and famous performers, gives it the kind of continuity in which theatre ghosts thrive.[Wikipedia]WikipediaTheatre Royal, BathTheatre Royal, Bath
The best-known Bath theatre ghost is the Grey Lady, often said to favour a box in the auditorium and sometimes linked to a tragic love story involving an actor. Visit Bath’s haunted-places guide repeats the story that the top left-hand box facing the stage is her favourite haunt and that she also haunts the neighbouring Garrick’s Head.[Visit Bath]visitbath.co.ukVisit Bath The most haunted places in BathVisit Bath The most haunted places in Bath
There is also the curious “phantom butterfly” tradition. Bath Newseum, drawing on Theatre Royal material, recounts a 1948 pantomime story in which a dead butterfly was found during rehearsals before theatre owner Reg Maddox died of a heart attack; after a live butterfly later appeared backstage, the removed butterfly ballet was restored and the show became a success. This is a gentler sort of haunting, closer to theatrical omen than horror story.[BATH NEWSEUM]bathnewseum.comBATH NEWSEUMWeird goings-on in the wings!BATH NEWSEUMWeird goings-on in the wings!
A 2026 sceptical discussion of the Grey Lady story is a useful reminder that even famous theatre ghost accounts can become exaggerated through repetition. It examines claims that a mass sighting happened during a 1975 performance with Anna Neagle, but treats the chain of reporting critically rather than accepting the story at face value. For readers, Bath’s theatre ghosts are best enjoyed as part of performance culture: stories actors, staff and audiences pass along in a building where illusion is already the business of the house.[The Skeptic]skeptic.org.ukOpen source on skeptic.org.uk.
Sally in the Wood, Brockley Combe and the haunted-road pattern
Somerset’s road ghosts are among its most modern-feeling legends because they involve cars, crashes, sudden figures and fear after dark. Sally in the Wood, near Bath, is the best known. The Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre places the road just over the border in the parish of Bathford, Somerset, and says the name has many competing explanations, closely connected with Monkton Farleigh in Wiltshire.[Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre]wshc.org.ukWiltshire and Swindon History Centre Sally in the WoodWiltshire and Swindon History Centre Sally in the Wood
Modern paranormal retellings often describe a girl in white running into the road and causing cars to crash, but this is exactly the sort of claim that needs caution. Somerset Live’s account of Sally in the Wood notes dramatic claims about fatal accidents while also questioning the reliability of some online ghost-hunt material. A local paranormal researcher’s “debunking” article similarly points out that the surrounding woods are relatively young in their present form and that some of the more extreme claims appear to have grown through repetition rather than evidence.[somersetlive.co.uk]somersetlive.co.uksally in wood haunted bath 1965500sally in wood haunted bath 1965500
Brockley Combe offers a more traditional road-haunting motif: the phantom coach. The Paranormal Database records several Brockley-area traditions, including a coach and four said to charge at oncoming traffic, a headless huntsman, a phantom horseman on moonless nights and a “bounding” ghost that runs ahead before vanishing. The same database also preserves older-sounding local figures, such as the jilted girl of Brockley Combe and Dinah Swan, whose ghost was said to have appeared from 1833 onwards.[Paranormal Database]paranormaldatabase.comOpen source on paranormaldatabase.com.
These stories are not strong evidence for supernatural events, but they are strong evidence for how people turn risky landscapes into narrative. Dark lanes, steep wooded combes, blind bends and old parish routes make excellent ghost-story settings because they already produce surprise, uncertainty and danger. In Somerset, the haunted road is often a warning story in eerie dress.
How credible are Somerset’s haunting sources?
Somerset’s haunted history is best read in layers. At the strongest historical layer are official or institutional sources: the National Trust for Dunster Castle and Glastonbury Tor, Shepton Mallet Prison’s own history page, the South West Heritage Trust for Taunton Castle, Historic England and the Battlefield Trust for Sedgemoor, and Wookey Hole’s own cave-legend material. These sources are useful for location, chronology and the public form of the legend, though even they do not prove paranormal claims.[nationaltrust.org.uk]nationaltrust.org.ukOpen source on nationaltrust.org.uk.
A second layer is local journalism and tourism writing. These sources show which stories are currently famous, how they are marketed and what details modern readers are likely to encounter. They are valuable for reception and public memory, but they often simplify or dramatise haunting claims.[somersetlive.co.uk]somersetlive.co.uk22 of the most haunted places in Somerset22 of the most haunted places in Somerset
A third layer is ghost databases, paranormal blogs and tour-company pages. These preserve many local motifs that might otherwise be hard to find, especially road ghosts, phantom coaches, White Ladies and recurring apparitions. They should be used carefully: they are good for mapping folklore, less reliable for establishing what “really happened”.[paranormaldatabase.com]paranormaldatabase.comOpen source on paranormaldatabase.com.
The most credible approach is therefore neither sneering dismissal nor uncritical belief. Somerset’s ghosts are meaningful because they show where people have felt history press hard on a place: a prison wing, a ruined abbey, a battlefield drain, a theatre box, a cave formation, a hillfort at dusk. The stories are part of the county’s cultural landscape, even when the evidence for literal apparitions is fragmentary, contradictory or folkloric.
The places that best define haunted Somerset
For a reader trying to understand Somerset’s haunted identity, a few places do most of the work.
Shepton Mallet Prison is the county’s modern dark-tourism centre: a real former prison with a long history, now overlaid with ghost tours, White Lady stories and overnight experiences.[Shepton Mallet Prison]sheptonmalletprison.comOpen source on sheptonmalletprison.com.
Glastonbury Abbey and Tor represent Somerset’s sacred and legendary hauntings: monks, Avalon, Arthurian associations and centuries of embroidered belief around real medieval and earlier religious sites.[glastonburyabbey.com]glastonburyabbey.comOpen source on glastonburyabbey.com.
Dunster Castle gives the county its classic haunted castle: lights, a green man, dungeon skeletons and a thousand years of architectural transformation.[National Trust]nationaltrust.org.ukOpen source on nationaltrust.org.uk.
Sedgemoor and Taunton show how political violence becomes ghost memory: the 1685 battle, the Bloody Assizes and the afterlife of rebellion in county identity.[battlefieldstrust.com]battlefieldstrust.comBattle of SedgemoorBattle of Sedgemoor
Wookey Hole and Cadbury Castle carry Somerset’s older legendary current: witchcraft, petrifaction, Arthurian sleep and riders from the hill.[Wookey Hole]wookey.co.ukOpen source on wookey.co.uk.
Bath’s Theatre Royal and haunted roads near Bath and Brockley add urban and roadside traditions: the Grey Lady, the phantom butterfly, Sally in the Wood and phantom coaches.[visitbath.co.uk]visitbath.co.ukVisit Bath The most haunted places in BathVisit Bath The most haunted places in Bath
Together, these stories make Somerset feel haunted in a distinctly West Country way: not just by ghosts, but by ruins, marshes, old roads, hillforts, caves, theatres, prisons and the uneasy memory of what happened there.
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Link:https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/oct/30/our-ghost-meter-went-crazy-we-played-horror-games-all-night-in-a-haunted-prison
50.
Source: nationaltrust.org.uk
Link:https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/somerset/dunster-castle-and-watermill
51.
Source: wsfp.co.uk
Title: West Somerset Free Press Spooky goings on as ghost tours return to castle
Link:https://www.wsfp.co.uk/news/entertainment/spooky-goings-on-as-ghost-tours-return-to-castle-564527
52.
Source: historicengland.org.uk
Link:https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/listing/battlefields/sedgemoor/
53.
Source: swheritage.org.uk
Title: museum of somerset
Link:https://swheritage.org.uk/museum-of-somerset/
54.
Source: themodernantiquarian.com
Link:https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/49/cadbury-castle-south-cadbury
55.
Source: visitbath.co.uk
Title: Visit Bath The most haunted places in Bath
Link:https://www.visitbath.co.uk/blog/read/2025/10/the-most-haunted-places-in-bath-b27
56.
Source: skeptic.org.uk
Link:https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2026/02/the-greatest-ghost-sighting-ever-the-grey-lady-of-the-theatre-royal-bath/
57.
Source: facebook.com
Link:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1040870849707443/posts/2236934036767779/
58.
Source: facebook.com
Link:https://www.facebook.com/museumofsomerset/
59.
Source: real-british-ghosts.com
Title: Phantom Butterfly
Link:https://www.real-british-ghosts.com/phantom-butterfly.html
60.
Source: medievalhistory.info
Title: The Witch of Wookey Hole
Link:https://medievalhistory.info/the-witch-of-wookey-hole/
61.
Source: swheritage.org.uk
Link:https://swheritage.org.uk/museum-of-somerset/visiting/
62.
Source: adelaidehauntedhorizons.com.au
Title: Shepton Mallet Prison Ghosts
Link:https://adelaidehauntedhorizons.com.au/haunted-shepton-mallet-prison/
63.
Source: nationaltrust.org.uk
Link:https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/somerset/dunster-castle-and-watermill/events
64.
Source: nationaltrust.org.uk
Link:https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/somerset/dunster-castle-and-watermill/events/739c1929-8744-4a42-aaf9-93b08a600eae
65.
Source: nationaltrust.org.uk
Link:https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/whats-on/halloween-adventures?page=4&type=event
66.
Source: nationaltrust.org.uk
Link:https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/castles-forts
67.
Source: nationaltrust.org.uk
Link:https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/north-east/dunstanburgh-castle
68.
Source: wookey.co.uk
Title: Wookey Hole
Link:https://www.wookey.co.uk/
69.
Source: tripadvisor.com
Title: Cadbury Castle
Link:https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g1738770-d210117-Reviews-Cadbury_Castle-South_Cadbury_Somerset_England.html
70.
Source: tripadvisor.com
Title: The Museum of Somerset
Link:https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g190730-d2343960-Reviews-The_Museum_of_Somerset-Taunton_Somerset_England.html
71.
Source: tripadvisor.com
Title: Monmouth Rebellion
Link:https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g5482930-d12265439-r810002082-Battle_of_Sedgemoor_Visitor_Centre-Westonzoyland_Bridgwater_Somerset_England.html
72.
Source: haunted-britain.com
Title: Cadbury Castle
Link:https://www.haunted-britain.com/cadbury-castle.htm
73.
Source: haunted-britain.com
Title: Taunton Castle
Link:https://www.haunted-britain.com/taunton-castle.htm
74.
Source: wikishire.co.uk
Link:https://wikishire.co.uk/wiki/Wiltshire
75.
Source: wikishire.co.uk
Link:https://wikishire.co.uk/wiki/Bristol
76.
Source: wikishire.co.uk
Link:https://wikishire.co.uk/wiki/Middlesex
77.
Source: bridgwatermuseum.org.uk
Title: The Battle of Sedgemoor
Link:https://www.bridgwatermuseum.org.uk/battle-of-sedgemoor.htm
78.
Source: glastonburyinformationcentre.co.uk
Title: shepton mallet prison
Link:https://glastonburyinformationcentre.co.uk/top-attractions/shepton-mallet-prison/
79.
Source: icysedgwick.com
Title: phantom coaches
Link:https://www.icysedgwick.com/phantom-coaches/
80.
Source: hauntedwiltshire.blogspot.com
Title: Dunster Castle
Link:https://hauntedwiltshire.blogspot.com/2011/04/dunster-castle-sumerset.html
81.
Source: thelittlehouseofhorrors.com
Link:https://thelittlehouseofhorrors.com/shepton-mallet-prison/
82.
Source: hauntedhosts.com
Title: The Jilted Girl of Brockley Combe
Link:https://hauntedhosts.com/haunted-places/somerset/location/2584-the-jilted-girl-of-brockley-combe
83.
Source: ghostlynights.com
Link:https://www.ghostlynights.com/sheptonmallet
84.
Source: tessofthevale.com
Title: cadbury castle
Link:https://tessofthevale.com/2026/01/12/cadbury-castle/
85.
Source: theguardian.com
Title: most haunted theatre ghosts superstitions theatre royal drury lane
Link:https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/oct/29/most-haunted-theatre-ghosts-superstitions-theatre-royal-drury-lane
86.
Source: countysignpost.co.uk
Title: shepton mallet prison
Link:https://www.countysignpost.co.uk/places/united-kingdom/somerset/shepton-mallet/attractions/shepton-mallet-prison/
87.
Source: visitbath.co.uk
Link:https://www.visitbath.co.uk/whats-on/paranormal-activity-at-theatre-royal-bath-p3914483
88.
Source: wiki.openstreetmap.org
Link:https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Somerset
89.
Source: paranormaldatabase.com
Link:https://www.paranormaldatabase.com/somerset/somedata.php?pageNum_paradata=14
90.
Source: paullee.com
Link:https://www.paullee.com/ghosts/ghostgeo/extractghostdata.php?location=51o190653_-2o543167_Shepton+Mallet+Prison.txt&ref=extractvenue
Additional References
91.
Source: hauntedrooms.co.uk
Link:https://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/haunted-places/somerset
92.
Source: tripadvisor.com
Link:https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g652382-d12435107-Reviews-Shepton_Mallet_Prison-Shepton_Mallet_Somerset_England.html
93.
Source: greatbritishghosttour.co.uk
Link:https://www.greatbritishghosttour.co.uk/Pages/England/Somerset/Sedgemoor.html
94.
Source: facebook.com
Link:https://www.facebook.com/groups/638416113618702/posts/1462145781245727/
95.
Source: baronofnorthcadbury.com
Link:https://baronofnorthcadbury.com/History-Library/Cadbury-the-Legend-of-King-Arthur
96.
Source: nightbringer.se
Link:https://nightbringer.se/nightbringer/a_cadburycastle.html
97.
Source: facebook.com
Link:https://www.facebook.com/groups/792274992649766/posts/993005805910016/
98.
Source: facebook.com
Link:https://www.facebook.com/CelticBardJeff/posts/cadbury-castlesomerset-englandcadbury-castle-has-been-associated-with-king-arthu/471088585005010/
99.
Source: instagram.com
Link:https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVgIJ_Uj_hW/
100.
Source: regencyfictionwriters.org
Link:https://regencyfictionwriters.org/ghosts-of-baths-theatre-royal/
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