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The ghosts of Ettington Park

Britain's most haunted hotel, they say.

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The ghosts of Ettington Park

Who is by the fireplace?

Stand where it happened

What's there
Gothic mansion with pointed windows
Legend from
Hotel ghost stories
Tone
Eerie
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Before you go

Private hotel: guests and diners only. Check before you go.

  • Ettington Park
  • Near A3400
  • The pin marks the spot.

The house that played Hill House.

Ettington Park is a neo-Gothic Victorian mansion of the Shirley family, now a hotel, and its outside played Hill House in the 1963 film The Haunting. BBC Coventry & Warwickshire calls it very haunted. Coventry Live quotes a night manager saying an army officer and an old lady are seen by the fireplace. Visit Warwickshire names a white-gowned 'Lady Emma' and two Shirley boys drowned in the Stour; only it names Lady Emma.

Sources

  1. Ghostbusting at a haunted hotel (2006), BBC Coventry & Warwickshire —
  2. 'Ghost of an army officer and an elderly lady...' fright nights at Ettington Park, Coventry Live —
  3. Ghost stories, haunted hotels and witchcraft murders trail, Visit Warwickshire —

Legends nearby