S01-E03 - Pluckley Village
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
A quiet Kent village.
Timbered pubs, old lanes, churchyard paths, and the kind of rural beauty that feels almost untouched by time.
But Pluckley has another reputation.
In this early Haunted UK Podcast episode, Steve explores the ghost stories, folklore, and strange witness accounts that helped make Pluckley known as Britain’s most haunted village. Mentioned in the Domesday Book and shaped by centuries of local history, Pluckley became famous not only for its picturesque streets and television appearances, but for the extraordinary number of spirits said to haunt its roads, woods, buildings, and churchyard.
The episode follows a wide range of reported hauntings, including the spectral coach and horses seen near Pluckley Pinnock, the highwayman said to linger at Fright Corner, the Tudor maid and Cavalier spirit of the Blacksmiths Arms, and the poltergeist activity reported inside the Black Horse Inn.
The journey also moves through the village’s darker locations: St Nicholas Church, where the White Lady is said to appear; the Dering family vault, with its mysterious lights and knocking sounds; and the surrounding lanes, where a taxi driver may have picked up one of Pluckley’s strangest phantom passengers.
Atmospheric, folkloric, and rooted in local legend, this episode explores the uneasy space between village identity, ghost tourism, witness testimony, and the enduring question of whether Pluckley’s haunted reputation is built on imagination — or on something that still moves quietly through the Kent countryside.
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| 0:55.5 | The United Kingdom has hundreds of beautiful, picturesque villages |
| 0:59.7 | which every year are pitched against each other |
| 1:02.9 | for a number of awards and honours. |
| 1:05.3 | But there's one particular village which in 1989 |
| 1:08.4 | was given a title which no other village will ever have. |
| 1:12.7 | It's this village which is the subject of this episode. |
| 1:24.1 | Welcome to Pink Flamingo's Haunted UK podcast. |
| 1:30.9 | Welcome to Pink Flamingo's Haunted UK podcast. The This is episode three of Pink Flamingo's Haunted UK podcast, and this week we'll be taking a journey around Britain's most haunted village. |
| 2:16.8 | Pluckley. |
| 2:26.3 | Thank you. a journey around Britain's most haunted village, Pluckley. The village of Pluckley is situated in the county of Kent, in the southeast of England. |
| 2:32.8 | Its roots can be traced as far back as 1086 and was even |
| 2:37.0 | mentioned in the Doomsday Book, coincidentally on page 13. In the 14th century, Pluckley's population |
| 2:45.4 | had grown quite significantly until the bubonic plague, otherwise known as the Black Death, |
| 2:52.6 | completely crushed its numbers. |
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