10 of Britain’s best graveyards for a Halloween stroll

You might glimpse the White Lady or the Hound of Dracula in these beautiful cemeteries across the country – what better way to spend Halloween?

Arguably the finest Halloween graveyard of them all lies atop a flight of 199 stone stairs, up which the dreadful hound of Dracula was sent bounding by Bram Stoker. Sadly most of the tawny-coloured tombstones have been licked illegible by the wind, but a few remain. Most visitors seek out the Huntrodd memorial, dedicated to a couple who were both born on 19 September 1600 and both died on the same day 80 years later. If visited at optimum times – during a screeching storm – you will need to see the headstone of William Storr, who died in the 1861 lifeboat disaster. It was, of course, the wreck of a Russian freighter on the rocks below St Mary’s, witnessed by Stoker, that inspired the classic scenes in chapters six and seven of Dracula. Best read by candlelight with your back against a tombstone.