York Ghost and Haunted History Walking Tour

Your experience

Explore York’s haunted heart on a ghost-themed guided walking tour with an expert guide and interactive fun quiz.

Getting started

Join your professional guide in central York and set off on a ghost-themed walking tour through the city’s streets and snickelways. After a short introduction, you begin your memorable time-travel journey on foot, so comfortable shoes are recommended. The route is wheelchair and stroller accessible, with public transportation options nearby for your arrival and departure.

What to expect

Treasurer’s House

This historic residence is one of the key haunted landmarks on your route. Your guide introduces the stories that have made Treasurer’s House a fixture in York’s ghost lore and explains how it connects to the city’s darker past.

Features

• Hear spine-chilling tales of tragedy, mystery, and ghostly encounters associated with Treasurer’s House, set against its historic architecture and city-centre location.
• Your expert guide with extensive knowledge of York’s history uses this stop to begin a memorable journey through time that is designed to be engaging for all ages.

The Shambles and snickelways

You continue along York’s snickelways and into The Shambles, one of the city’s most historic streets. This section of the walk focuses on how narrow lanes and overhanging buildings became a backdrop for eerie sightings and legends.

Features

• Walk through The Shambles and nearby snickelways while your guide points out haunted landmarks and explains how these tight passageways have inspired ghost stories for generations.
• As part of your ghost-themed walking tour of York, interactive elements including a fun quiz keep everyone involved while you explore this historic area.

Mad Alice Lane

Mad Alice Lane adds a personal, character-driven twist to the tour. Here, your guide introduces one of York’s most talked-about restless spirits and the events that surround her story.

Features

• Listen to the tale of Mad Alice and how her name became tied to this lane, with atmospheric details that highlight York’s darker side.
• The family-friendly, ghost-themed guided tour uses this stop to deepen the time-travel feel of the experience, keeping thrill-seekers, history lovers, and the curious engaged.

Clifford’s Tower

Arriving at Clifford’s Tower, you encounter one of York’s most prominent historic sites. The focus here is on the tower’s role in the city’s turbulent history and the ghostly echoes that many believe linger.

Features

• Take in views of Clifford’s Tower while hearing stories of tragedy and unrest that contribute to its haunted reputation.
• Your professional guide connects these accounts to earlier stops, reinforcing the narrative thread of your memorable time-travel journey through York.

Bedern Passage

The route then leads into Bedern Passage, a narrower spot where the city’s past feels especially close. This is a chance to experience one of York’s more tucked-away haunted locations.

Features

• Move through Bedern Passage as your guide shares accounts of apparitions and unexplained happenings linked to this secluded corner.
• Interactive elements including the fun quiz resurface here, encouraging you to recall details from Treasurer’s House, The Shambles, Mad Alice Lane, Clifford’s Tower, and Bedern Passage.

The Golden Fleece pub

Your walk concludes at The Golden Fleece, often described as one of York’s most haunted pubs. This final stop brings together the themes of ghosts, ghouls, and gallows that have threaded through the tour.

Features

• Outside or at the entrance to The Golden Fleece, your guide rounds off the family-friendly, chilling adventure with final stories about the pub’s reported spirits.
• The ghost-themed guided tour officially ends at The Golden Fleece pub, giving you the option to step inside independently or continue your evening in York on your own.

Wrapping up

The guided portion concludes at The Golden Fleece, from where you can easily make your own way to nearby public transport or continue exploring York’s historic centre independently. Gratuities and hotel pickup and drop-off are not included, so you are free to plan the rest of your night as you wish.

Highlights

• Follow an expert storyteller through York, uncovering ghost stories at locations, then finish at The Golden Fleece, known for ghost sightings.
• Your walk begins with your guide setting the scene, then leading you through York's snickelways where chapters of the city's past slowly surface.
• Walk a route past Treasurer's House, The Shambles, Mad Alice Lane, Clifford's Tower, and Bedern Passage, guided by an interactive quiz at each stop.
• Listen to accounts of tragedy, mystery, and justice, feel the tension build at each stop, and share a shiver that works for adults and younger guests.