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Blickling Hall

Near Aylsham, Norfolk

Anne Boleyn arrives headless in a phantom coach.

Blickling Hall stands on the site of the house where Anne Boleyn may have been born. Legend says that every year on 19 May, the anniversary of her execution, she arrives at the hall in a coach driven by a headless horseman, with her own head in her lap.

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When
19 May each year
Where
52.8100, 1.2300
Group
Haunted places

Visiting

National Trust, open most of the year.

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