- Magpie Lane is said to be haunted by a grieving ‘Brown Lady’ believed to be the ghost of a young puritan girl called Prudence who died of unrequited love.
- St John’s College is said to house the headless ghost of Archbishop Laud who was beheaded on London’s Tower Hill in 1645 as an ‘enemy to the parliament’.
- Westgate. Mary Blandy executed at the castle yard in 1752 for the murder of her father by poision.
- Oxford Castle – place of many public executions.
- Exeter College – John Crocker. A famous Elizabethan scholar who appears in a costume of gown, and yellow jacked.
- University College – Obadiah Walker is said to haunt the room he lived in over 300 years ago.
- Banbury Road. George Napier a Jesuit priest was hung drawn and quartered during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, his dismembered body was left in different parts of Oxford. His headless body is said to be still looking for his head which he never found.
- Mitre Pub. During reformation, soldiers of Henry VIII are said to have walled in some monks in an underground passage linking the Mitre to other buildings on the High Street.
- Godstow Nunnery – Grey Lady who still wanders the remains of her resting place, looking for peace, 12th Century lover of Henry II
Haunted Oxford – Walking Tours
Around evening, there are often walking tours to see the haunted parts of Oxford.
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