Strines Inn stands on high, isolated ground above Bradfield in the far west of Sheffield, close to the Peak District boundary, on a site said to have held a manor house since as early as the twelfth century before the current building itself went up in the seventeenth, giving the location a much longer history of continuous occupation than its present structure alone would suggest.
Its position, ringed by open moorland and reached along narrow, winding roads that discourage casual passing trade, has helped give it exactly the kind of isolated reputation that remote old inns tend to collect over the generations, standing as they do as rare lit windows in an otherwise empty landscape after dark.
The story told locally is of a grey lady who moves quietly through the building, seen occasionally by staff and, on rarer occasions, by guests staying overnight in one of the inn's rooms. As with many pub ghosts of this general type, there is no strongly attached name or backstory beyond the bare description of the figure itself, and the tale appears mainly in local ghost-hunting round-ups rather than in any single well-documented incident with named witnesses. It is included here as a straightforward, honestly thin single report rather than a fully developed haunting, very much in keeping with a long English tradition of grey ladies attaching themselves to old buildings standing alone on lonely roads.
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