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50 Berkeley Square is a Grade II listed townhouse in Mayfair, London, once the home of British Prime Minister George Canning. It became known from the late 19th century as one of London's most reputedly haunted houses, a reputation that grew after the recluse Thomas Myers occupied the property from 1859 to 1874 and let it fall into disrepair; various later legends describe an attic haunted by a young woman, a madman kept locked away, or a murdered child. Modern investigators regard most of the ghost accounts of the 1870s and 1880s as exaggerated or invented by later writers, and no phenomena have been reported since the Maggs Brothers bought the house in the late 1930s. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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City of Westminster, United Kingdom 3
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1. 50 Berkeley Square
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Berkeley_Square, lead definition
    50 Berkeley Square is a Grade II listed building and a reportedly haunted townhouse on Berkeley Square in Mayfair, Central London.
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    50 Berkeley Square is a Grade II listed building and a reportedly haunted townhouse on Berkeley Square in Mayfair, Central London. It became widely known as the most haunted house during the late 19th century and was the former home of British Prime Minister George Canning.
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2. Wikidata: 50 Berkeley Square
Wikidata Q14954837, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
3. 50 Berkeley Square (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: City of Westminster, United Kingdom
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: City of Westminster, United Kingdom
Wikidata item Q14954837, property P131/P17 (location): City of Westminster, United Kingdom
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