Lancaster Castle

Haunted Lancaster

Haunted Lancaster Justice and the Supernatural

Lancaster carries weight. Law, punishment, and maritime trade shaped its streets. Haunted Lancaster centres on its castle, historic inns, and Georgian terraces where past events remain part of local memory. The Castle and the Witch Trials Lancaster Castle is linked to the 1612 Pendle witch trials. Prisoners were held within its walls. Visitors and guides […]

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Lancaster Castle

Lancaster Castle Ghosts Witches and the Hanging Town

Perched above the city skyline, Lancaster Castle looks every inch the proud medieval fortress, but its stones are steeped in fear, punishment, and grief. For centuries it served as both court and prison, earning Lancaster the grim nickname “the Hanging Town”.​ With witch trials, mass executions, and overcrowded cells in its past, it is little

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