What places in the UK have weirded you out - part two

[Yachtinggwoman]

I have started another thread, as the topic is so interesting.

West Bay felt very weird to me. We went after watching Broadchurch. I think it’s partly the strange mix of architecture. The cliff falls are also creepy. There are signs on the beach warning you to stay away from the cliffs.

Manorbier Castle near Tenby in Wales had a strange effect on me.
If I remember rightly it looks out to sea, and had a beautiful large grassy lawn.
All very attractive.
We were taking photographs and a cat walked out from a doorway, we stroked her and she sat in a sunny spot.
But going inside the castle I felt really weird.
My husband wandered off to explore, and I sat in the window seat looking out. Maybe it was just imagination but I felt part of the history of the castle, I was a medieval lady with a grief so deep it took my breath away.
I was absolutely overwhelmed by melancholy, so much that I found that I was crying.
Strange experience.

Did you get the job?

Yes, good point, and Thomas Beckett's murder was particularly gruesome. Some claim you can still see the bloodstain.

Ooh another one I've just thought of - Llantwit Major beach. We went fossil hunting there one day and it just felt oppressive and endless and strange.

Castles seem to be a common recurring theme too, as well as cathedrals. I guess as castles were.built as a means of defence against enemies, it makes sense that some of them may have an odd vibe. A lot of bloodshed, fear, loss.

I’m very interested in this as I don’t get that feeling at all in Canterbury but boy did I get it in Bath! Really strange!

The other place I felt it was in Matlock in Derbyshire.

Maybe I have an aversion to spa towns? 😁

Would love a bit more info from to posted who found Cartmel weird.

Someone mentioned driving through Bacup on the last thread…. No jokes I’ve known it to be full on snowing here and sun cracking the flags 3 miles down the road. We have our own climate I swear! I call it narnia. There’s also a lot of strange goings on around here… you couldn’t write some of the things it’s mad. We also seem to have half the cast of coronation street as residents and we get the beautiful Michelle Keegan here regularly filming brassic!! I also believe the smallest house in Britain is here, once owned by the man who played Percy Sugden (I think he was called)!!

And I agree with the beginning with B thing….

Microclimates are a thing. DH and I were driving through Prenton in my native Wirral last December. It was bucketing it down. A few minutes later we were approaching the Queensway tunnel. Emerged in Liverpool to find everywhere bone dry. Bloody Scousers foisting all the rain onto us. 😡 😅

Drove through Darley Dale earlier and spotted a new estate across from the garden centre it's the creepiest housing estate I've seen the houses just looked soulless it could of been just the black window frames but I wouldn't fancy living there!!

I need to add Polruan and Mevagissy to the list. I just had to leave both immediately.

Waiting for you to leave so they could start their dogging??

Ok how about Dover. Driving through late at night is weird. You can't see the sea, steep cliffs the other side, huge lorries barreling past and an eerie mist. There is seemingly no where to walk to and no amenities. Gulls squawk as the sea thunders in the background.

A house in Sydney, Australia. I had this weird dream about secret floors with rooms under a house going down and down. It was terrifying. Then the next day (IRL) my DH started working on a house (he’s a tradie) and he was so inexplicably weirded out he called me to keep him company. This house had a hidden lower floor, similar to my dream. It was just a coincidence, but it added to the fear.

DH has never felt anything like that before or since, but the house really freaked him out and he couldn’t wait to finish the job.

This thread is hilarious!

The train ride that takes you through Manchester that consists of several miles of over ground bridges in an exceptionally urban setting. I liked Manchester when I visited but a train ride through was grim.

Oh I love them, esp Meva

Lands End is very creepy, i could feel that a lot happened there and it made me feel sad.

Lol,seriously though the rainfall has to start and end somewhere. I was once walking across a big park and stepped out of the rain and into the dry about halfway across

Someone mentioned Cannock Chase. I lived near there and I remember the bodies of three little girls being found buried there. They had been raped and murdered.

I live in Cambridgeshire, I can just about see there are a few day trip places but can't imagine why anyone would book a holiday hereabouts. I'm guessing there are very few campsites

There is a weird place near an army training place near York. It is kind of atmospheric in a very desolate way, but it looks like nothing had been touched for decades. The constant sound of gunfire and the fact that it was totally empty and huge was very creepy.

Colwyn Bay - the most awful feeling to the place . We stopped off when touring North Wales . So oppressive . I felt it immeadiately as did my extremely stoic totally unwoo Mr.
Conwy Castle had a horrid vibe too . However I love Whitby and Liverpool and York .
There is a ruined castle 2 miles from where I live though only been once and couldn’t wait to leave same oppressive feeling and felt imminent danger .

Spalding through to Skegness, not my cup of tea at all, don't find the people friendly, I know it's countryside but the smell

Just a flat, boring area

Apologies to anyone from there!

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