Best Halloween Attractions in the UK to Chill Your Blood

Halloween is close and all are bracing themselves to get into spooky spirits. As the dates are getting closer, people look for all forms of entertainment that can put them in a scary mood. Like everybody else, you must be in search of spooktacular places with a chilling atmosphere, sites full of dark history and vampiric quality. There are castles to look at, scream parks to see, scare mazes to get entangled in and many more sites and events you can count on in the UK. Here are some of the best Halloween attractions in the UK you can visit this year.

 

Alton Towers Resort

Terrify yourself in every way possible in Alton Towers Scarefest. It takes place every October in Alton Towers Resort in Staffordshire and is one of the most thrilling events during the Halloween season.

Some of the spookiest things to do in Alton Towers are:

• Have a laugh and scream in the Alton Towers Dungeon for 45 minutes, by riding the Black Riverboat, meeting the plague doctor and taking shelter in a haunted cottage.
• Visit the Trick O' Treat Town and the residents by taking a route from Spooky Avenue to the Witchy Woods, summoning your courage, knocking on doors and asking for a treat.
• Go through the Toxic Junkyard scare maze, and discover the dark secrets hidden, and psycho clowns planning their chilling freak show for you.

Throughout the event, the park is open from 10 am to 9 pm, giving you an opportunity to enjoy 11 chilling hours of fear and scare.

 

Thorpe Park

The amusement park in the village of Thorpe in Surrey may be famous for its water rides and rollercoasters throughout the year, but during the Halloween season, Thorpe Park gives you the opportunity to attend a terrifying annual event known as Fright Night.

For this year’s Halloween, you will have your heart racing during this award-winning event through the following experiences:

• Taking a walk in a cursed village, and frightening fields of corn in search of the Crows of Mawkin Meadow.
• Take a thrilling ride in the darkness of the Swarm, the UK’s only winged rollercoaster, and experience its speedy fright.
• Test your bravery by entering the abandoned Creek Woods Sawmill and experience the scariest maze in Creek Freak Massacre.
• Finally, join others on Platform 15, for a terrifying ghost ride, on the track of a notorious locomotive called Sleeper Express. It is good to point that going through this bone-chilling ride requires you to be at least 13 years old.

 

Xtreme Scream Park

Brace yourself before entering Xtreme Scream Park near Leicester, since you will be having the most frightening night of screams you will ever experience. You might choose Ash Hell Penitentiary where you will visit cannibal inmates and a flesh-eating Duke, or visit the village with scary scarecrows all around to scare off visitors.

In addition, some of the new attractions for the 2021 event are:

•  Ashes to Earth: attempting to see what Mother Earth finally has in store for you.
• The Unfair Funfair: entering the zones of trickster clowns who are ready to laugh at your expense.
• The Pie Factory: getting to see the process of pie production with the fear of you being a victim yourself.

For most of the attractions, you need to be over the age of 18 or over 14 if you are accompanied by an adult.

 

Warwick Castle

The Medieval Castle in Warwick was built in 1068 and is one of the beauties of Gothic architecture. Apart from its historical significance, it is an important Halloween attraction in an event called the Haunted Castle.

During the event, families can stay overnight at Fright’s Village, in spooky cottages and receive visits from wizards and witches in the morning. Some of the other activities you can try this year are:

• Dead Centre Stage, where you and your children will hear spooky tales by ghosts and magicians, accompanied by music.
• UpScares DownScares, which involves a trip through the scary rooms of the castle, meeting its mischievous servants.
• Wizard, Witches and Troll Schools, where the young students will learn sorcery, scare tactics and spells.

The Castle after Dark event, on 24-29 and 31 October, has its own range of scare attractions, suitable for all in search of fright.

 

Whitby Abbey

Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire is a fantastic historical site, known for its eye-catching architecture and Gothic style. This Christian Monastery was built in 657, and now its ruins, as well as the site museum, are narrators of its long and interesting history.

What makes the Abbey an interesting attraction during Halloween is the fact that the place has been the inspiration behind the writing of Bram Stoker’s famous horror novel, Dracula. For this reason, the place has been fortunate to host events of its own during the Halloween season.

One of the events for this year is the ‘Illuminated Abbey’, in which the abbey ruins will be lit up by rainbow colours between the 23rd and 31 of October. The other event is The Wizards Of Once Halloween Quest at Whitby Abbey, which is specially held for children, sending them on a quest for a curse-breaking spell, which involves a prize too.

 

The East Lancashire Railway

The railway running from Heywood to Rawtenstall in Lancashire was opened in 1846 and closed in 1980. It is now operating as a heritage railway and welcomes families and holds special events throughout the year.

For this season’s Halloween, the East Lancashire Railway is hosting Halloween Ghost Trains, which will have families getting on a haunted steam engine on a journey to meet ghouls and ghosts, send a chill down their spine, and make them have a lot of spooky fun.

The event is held from the 28th to 30th of October and visitors will be joining the Monster Squad, Veronica the Witch, and Brian the Vampire, on a trip to break terrifying curses.