Birdcage Walk, City of Westminster, England
Birdcage Walk
Cockpit Steps
The apparition of a headless woman wearing a cream satin dress with red stripes - said to be stained with blood - haunts this area.
Pictured left is the Cockpit Steps from our visit in February 2019.
Located between Dartmouth Street and Birdcage Walk.
For further information, please read Britain's Haunted Heritage by Keith B. Poole.
Wellington Barracks
The same apparition as reported at the Cockpit Steps, that of a guardsman’s wife who was slain by her husband, reputedly also haunts Wellington Barracks.
Her gruesome ghost is said to be headless and wearing a cream satin dress with red stripes, but this is said to be stained with blood.
Pictured left is Wellington Barracks courtesy of Phillip Perry.
Wellington Barracks,
SW1,
City of Westminster,
Greater London.
For further information, please read Haunted Britain by Antony D. Hippisley Coxe and Britain's Haunted Heritage by Keith B. Poole.
Location
Visitor Information
Birdcage Walk is a street in the City of Westminster in London.
It runs east-west as a continuation of Great George Street, from the crossroads with Horse Guards Road and Storey's Gate, with the Treasury building and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on the northeast corner, to a junction with Buckingham Gate, at the southeast corner of Buckingham Palace.
Pictured left is Birdcage Walk courtesy of Paul Farmer. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
