The Lion Hotel on Worksop's Bridge Street carries one of the more classically shaped tragic ghost stories collected in this survey: a servant, Alice, working at the hotel in the early 18th century, falls in love with her employer, the owner of the establishment, only to be rejected. Unable to bear the rejection, she is said to have hanged herself somewhere within the building, and it is her ghost that local tradition holds still walks the hotel's corridors today.
As with many stories of this shape, no contemporary documentary source naming Alice, dating her death precisely, or confirming the identity of the hotel owner involved has been found for this record, and the tale should be read as a long-repeated local tradition rather than a verified historical case. It nonetheless follows a genuinely old and widespread narrative pattern found across English haunted-inn stories, of a servant's unrequited love ending in suicide and a lingering ghost, closely enough that it is worth recording as a distinct entry within Worksop's own local ghostlore.
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