Barnby Moor sits on the old Great North Road, the historic coaching route running up the eastern side of England, and Ye Olde Bell Hotel there has served travellers on that road for a very long time, the kind of long institutional life that tends to accumulate ghost stories along with its guest history.
The hotel's own tradition centres on a Grey Lady, a figure described in the wraith-like, faded terms typical of this very common category of English ghost, reported gliding rather than walking through the building's corridors and its ballroom. No source found for this record gives her a name, a period of dress, or any biographical detail that would connect her to a specific point in the hotel's long history as a coaching inn.
As one of the thinner grey lady traditions collected in this survey, it is recorded honestly as an undated, generic local haunting rather than a documented case with a clear historical anchor.
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