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."
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Notable people
Parapsychologist Ciarán O'Keeffe attended school in High Wycombe.