Witches & witch trials

51 places across Britain and Ireland

• Alice MollandExeter, Devon · Thought to be the last person hanged for witchcraft in England.
• Bessie DunlopLynn Glen, Dalry, Ayrshire · She said a ghost from a lost battle led her to the fairies.
• Biddy EarlyFeakle, County Clare · Ireland's most famous wise woman, with a magic blue bottle.
• Bridget ClearyBallyvadlea, County Tipperary · Burned by her husband, who believed she was a fairy changeling.
• Cunning MurrellHadleigh, Essex · The last of the great 'cunning men', who battled witches with iron bottles.
• Dame Alice KytelerKilkenny · Ireland's first recorded witch trial, and the inn she ran still pours pints.
• Florence Newton, the Witch of YoughalYoughal, County Cork · Accused of bewitching a servant girl with a kiss.
• Gwen ferch EllisDenbigh, Denbighshire · The first person executed for witchcraft in Wales.
• Helen DuncanPortsmouth, Hampshire · A medium jailed under the Witchcraft Act in the middle of the Second World War.
• Isobel GowdieAuldearn, Nairnshire · The most detailed witch confession ever recorded, full of flying and fairies.
• Jane Wenham, the Wise Woman of WalkernWalkern, Hertfordshire · The last woman sentenced to death for witchcraft in England, and pardoned.
• Janet HorneDornoch, Sutherland · The last person executed for witchcraft in Britain.
• Joan Wytte, the Fighting Fairy WomanBodmin, Cornwall · A healer who died in jail and was finally buried 185 years later.
• John Harries, the Cunning ManCwrt-y-Cadno, Carmarthenshire · Wales's most famous wizard, who foretold his own death.
• Kate McNivenKnock of Crieff, Perthshire · A nursemaid burned on a hill, cursing the town as she died.
• Lady Janet Douglas of GlamisGlamis Castle, Angus · A noblewoman burned on false charges of plotting to poison a king.
• Lilias AdieTorryburn, Fife · A woman buried under a slab on the shore so the Devil couldn't take her.
• Macbeth's HillockNear Brodie, Moray · Where Macbeth is said to have met the three witches.
• Maggie Wall's MonumentNear Dunning, Perthshire · A mysterious cairn for a witch who appears in no records at all.
• Major Thomas WeirWest Bow, Edinburgh · A respected churchman who confessed to being a wizard.
• ManningtreeEssex · Home town of Matthew Hopkins, the self-styled Witchfinder General.
• Mary Bateman, the Yorkshire WitchLeeds, West Yorkshire · A fortune-teller, a 'prophetic hen' and a poisoner hanged in 1809.
• Mary Butters, the Carnmoney WitchCarnmoney, County Antrim · A witch-finder whose cure killed three people.
• Mary LakelandIpswich, Suffolk · Burned alive, the last witch put to death in Ipswich.
• Meg Shelton's GraveWoodplumpton, Lancashire · A witch buried head down under a boulder so she couldn't climb out.
• Molly Leigh's GraveSt John's Church, Burslem, Staffordshire · A woman buried at right angles to everyone else.
• Mother Ludlam's CaveNear Farnham, Surrey · A white witch who lent out her cauldron, which now sits in a church.
• Museum of Witchcraft and MagicBoscastle, Cornwall · The world's largest collection of witchcraft objects, in a Cornish harbour.
• Newchurch-in-PendlePendle, Lancashire · Heart of the Pendle witch country, with Alice Nutter's statue and the 'Eye of God'.
• Slieau WhallianNear St John's, Isle of Man · The Manx hill where witches were rolled down in spiked barrels.
• The Aberdeen Witch TrialsAberdeen · Two dozen people burned in a single year.
• The Bideford WitchesBideford, Devon · Three poor women among the last people hanged for witchcraft in England.
• The Bury St Edmunds HangingsBury St Edmunds, Suffolk · Eighteen people hanged in one day by the Witchfinder General.
• The Chelmsford Witch TrialsChelmsford, Essex · England's first major witch trial, and a cat named Satan.
• The Crook of Devon WitchesCrook of Devon, Kinross-shire · A tiny village where a coven was said to meet.
• The Forfar Witches' BridleForfar, Angus · An iron gag used on accused witches before they were burned.
• The Islandmagee Witch TrialIslandmagee, County Antrim · The last witch trial in Ireland.
• The Long Compton Witch MurderLong Compton, Warwickshire · In Victorian times, a farm labourer killed a woman he believed was a witch.
• The North Berwick Witch TrialsAuld Kirk Green, North Berwick, East Lothian · Witches accused of raising storms to sink the king's ship.
• The Paisley WitchesGeorge Street, Paisley, Renfrewshire · A horseshoe in the road marks where seven people were executed.
• The Pittenweem WitchesPittenweem, Fife · A mob murdered a woman accused of witchcraft on the shore.
• The Samlesbury WitchesSamlesbury, Lancashire · Three women saved when a judge saw through a coached girl.
• The Witch in a BottlePitt Rivers Museum, Oxford · A silver bottle said to hold a witch, with a warning never to open it.
• The Witch of EdmontonEdmonton, north London · A poor old woman whose story became a famous play.
• The Witch's Stone, SpottSpott, East Lothian · A stone by the roadside where witches were burned.
• The Witches of BelvoirBottesford, Leicestershire · A tomb that blames an earl's sons' deaths on sorcery.
• The Witches of LlanddonaLlanddona, Anglesey · Strangers who drifted ashore in a boat without oars.
• The Witches of WarboysWarboys, Cambridgeshire · A family hanged after rich children accused their elderly neighbour.
• The Witches' Stone, ForresForres, Moray · Where barrels of witches rolled down the hill finally stopped.
• The Witches' WellCastle Esplanade, Edinburgh · A small iron fountain marking where hundreds were burned.
• Ursula KempSt Osyth, Essex · A healer hanged for witchcraft whose skeleton was later put on show.