The Leeds Ghost Tour Route
1. The Corn Exchange
Meet your guide, Lord Bartholomew Catch, by the Corn Exchange’s grand entrance, and learn about a ghost or two who are said to linger…
2. Skull and Stones Yard
Brutish bullies roamed the streets of Leeds once upon a time, hear about an unfortunate pair of brothers’ not-so-smart escape-route.
3. The River Aire and Jenny White’s Hole
If you swim in the river Aire, you’ll always be swimming with a buddy…
4. The Lamb and Flag Inn
The most infamous witch in Leeds: Mary Bateman. See her former home and find out how she met her wicked fate.
5. Leeds Minster
It’s waaay more impressive than that tiny little Church in York… stand in the actual location of Leeds’ first murder.
6. Middleton Railway
The first railway line in the UK! Meet the Navvies who built it, and the first man to die on it.
7. Kirkgate Markets
It’s more than just a market…
8. Leeds Shambles - Fish Street
Once a stream of blood and fish guts, Leeds really wasn’t hygenic back in the day.
9. Cross/County Arcade
Time to meet our little friend! Learn about a store that is now long-gone, and was once labelled ‘the creepiest place in Leeds’.
10. The Ship Inn
Let’s add to this historic pub’s spirit collection!
11. City Varieties
Leave it to the thespians to complain about omens and ghoulish horrors!
12. Briggate
Now home to designer stores and boutique luxuries, you wouldn’t believe that this street was once home to the slums of Leeds…
