In the run-up to Halloween, you may be looking for activities and places to visit to get you into the spirit of the season.

You needn’t look far, as right on your doorstep is one of the UK’s “most haunted” buildings.

Newton House, in Llandeilo, dates back to the Medieval era, being built in its current form in 1660.

The house belonged to the Rhys family, descendants of the Prince of the Welsh Kingdom of Deheubarth, for more than 300 years.

The most prolific ghost sighted at Newton House is said to be the spirit of Lady Elinor Cavendish, who was the cousin of the lady of the house in the 1720s.

Legend tells that Elinor was forced to marry a man she didn’t love, so she ran away from him and took refuge with her cousin at Newton House.

But luck was not with Elinor, as her husband followed her to the house, bursting in and strangling her to death.

Visitors claim to have seen a beautiful woman glide across the room and disappear, and this is thought to be the ghost of Lady Elinor.

In the 1980s, a film crew visited the house to investigate the spooky goings-on reported in the building - and found more than they bargained for.

Although nothing concrete was recorded, one cameraman said that he felt hands around his neck squeezing, in the very room where Elinor was strangled to death.

There was also the mysterious coincidence that the film crew each fell ill after filming there, one after another.

Lady Elinor is not the only ghost said to have been spotted at Newton House, with another spectral inhabitant of the home known as Walter the Butler.

Walter is rumoured to haunt the servants’ quarters in the basement of the house, switching lights on and off and bringing the smell of tobacco smoke with him, as well as the sound of muffled voices.

Newton House is now managed by the National Trust, who commented: “Many peculiar and unsettling reports of ghostly activity have come out of Newton House in Carmarthenshire.

“The 17th century building enveloped by a Victorian façade is set in an extensive landscape park.”

The Trust offers guided tours of the building, sharing the spooky stories that have collected around the site over the years.