The Plough Inn in Trysull dates back to the sixteenth century, and among the ghost stories attached to South Staffordshire's older pubs, it carries a fairly typical one for a building of this age: a monk, dressed consistently in brown robes, seen by various visitors inside the building over the years.
No source available anywhere gives a specific date, a description of any actual incident, or any explanation for why a monk specifically would be connected to a building of this kind in this particular village, and the story appears to circulate mainly through general listings of the area's haunted pubs rather than through any documented local investigation that might actually confirm the claim.
The Plough Inn's monk stands, in that sense, as a genuinely representative example of the countless thinly documented monastic ghost figures found attached to old buildings right across England, his brown robes offering little more than a familiar, recognisable shape rather than any developed individual story of his own.
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