Berkyn Manor

Looking at photos of Berkyn Bull Manor, it’s easy to convince yourself that it’s not real, that these are just stills from a movie set. But, I assure you, it’s all real. The house was said to have been visited by John Milton in the 17th century. Since then, it was fixed up and lived in until the final owner died in 1987. Risk venturing inside and you’ll find a library full of abandoned, dusty books, crooked and broken stairs, a collapsed upstairs corridor, and even a small pipe organ that feels like it surely must have been added to intentionally frighten trespassers (it wasn’t). There are open newspapers left on the desk next to bundles of paper tied up with string, and even a tiny old TV from the 1940s. If you need time to recover after venturing inside, you can get some food and pints at the nearby Crown and Kitchen pub.