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Buckinghamshire is a county in South East England, bordering Oxfordshire, Berkshire, and Hertfordshire. Its dense concentration of country houses, market towns, and Civil War history has produced one of the more extensively documented collections of local ghost stories in the home counties.

Hughenden Manor

Said to be haunted by Benjamin Disraeli, reportedly seen walking its corridors.

Claydon House

Associated with Sir Edmund Verney, a Royalist standard-bearer killed at Edgehill in 1642, said to haunt the house in search of the severed hand still gripping his standard.

West Wycombe and the Hellfire Club

Sir Francis Dashwood's 18th-century Hellfire Club is associated with sightings of poet Paul Whitehead since 1781.

The Flincher — Taplow

A winged black beast associated with the former Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital.

Dinton

Associated with the legend of the "Dinton Hermit."

Explore Buckinghamshire

High Wycombe

Notable people

Parapsychologist Ciarán O'Keeffe attended school in High Wycombe.

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 == Hughenden Manor ==
-The country house is said to be haunted by Benjamin Disraeli, the Victorian Prime Minister who once lived there, reportedly seen walking its corridors.
+Said to be haunted by Benjamin Disraeli, reportedly seen walking its corridors.
 == Claydon House ==
-Claydon House's most enduring legend concerns Sir Edmund Verney, a Royalist standard-bearer killed at the Battle of Edgehill in 1642 while refusing to surrender the King's colours. His severed hand, still gripping the standard, was recovered and returned to Claydon, and his ghost is said to haunt the house in search of it.
+Associated with Sir Edmund Verney, a Royalist standard-bearer killed at Edgehill in 1642, said to haunt the house in search of the severed hand still gripping his standard.
 == West Wycombe and the Hellfire Club ==
-West Wycombe was home to Sir Francis Dashwood's 18th-century Hellfire Club, whose members reportedly held secretive gatherings at nearby Medmenham Abbey and beneath the Hellfire Caves. From 1781, Dashwood's servants and estate workers began reporting sightings of poet Paul Whitehead, a club member, said to haunt the house and gardens after his death.
+Sir Francis Dashwood's 18th-century Hellfire Club is associated with sightings of poet Paul Whitehead since 1781.
 == The Flincher — Taplow ==
-Taplow was once the site of the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital, which treated soldiers returning from the First World War, many of whom died there. A winged black beast known locally as "The Flincher" is said to haunt the site.
+A winged black beast associated with the former Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital.
 == Dinton ==
-Dinton is associated with the legend of the "Dinton Hermit," said to be the ghost of a royal executioner believed to have carried out the execution of Charles I, and reportedly still lingering at a property in the village bearing his name.
+Associated with the legend of the "Dinton Hermit."
+== Explore Buckinghamshire ==
+* [[High Wycombe]]
 == Notable people ==
-Parapsychologist [[Ciarán O'Keeffe]] grew up in High Wycombe and attended school there; he is currently based at Buckinghamshire New University, also in High Wycombe.
+Parapsychologist [[Ciarán O'Keeffe]] attended school in [[High Wycombe]].
-== External links ==
-* [https://www.buckinghamshirelive.com/whats-on/whats-on-news/haunted-houses-buckinghamshire-terrifying-tales-7716861 Buckinghamshire Live — Haunted houses in Buckinghamshire and the terrifying tales behind them]
-* [https://www.buckinghamshirelive.com/news/history/eight-spooky-tales-buckinghamshires-most-5095237 Buckinghamshire Live — Eight spooky tales about some of Buckinghamshire's most haunted places]
-[[Category:Buckinghamshire]]
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