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The Ghost of Herne the Hunter

Home Park · Windsor

The Ghost of Herne the Hunter

Track down the legend of the antlered huntsman said to haunt the park.

  • ⏱ 25 min
  • 💷 £0
  • 🥾 Medium

For over a thousand years, locals have sworn a ghostly huntsman with antlers on his head rides through Windsor Great Park on stormy nights, trailed by black hounds. His oak tree is long gone, but the legend — and the woodland it haunts — is still very much here.

What you’ll do

  1. 1Learn the legend
  2. 2Find a lonely oak
  3. 3Prove it
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Photo: Malcolm Gould, CC BY-SA 2.0

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