The Bell Hotel - is one of the old coaching inns in Derby, and has managed to retain much of its original appearance, although its apparent Tudor timbering was not added until after World War One. It was built around 1680, for the Meynell family and is reputed to have various ghosts within.

A Victorian lady in blue stands in one of the downstairs bars and vaporises in front of staff and customers alike. A poltergeist in another downstairs room has been known to throw items around, one barmaid being hit on the back of her head by a wooden coat hanger, but close inspection of the room revealed no one else present.

Upstairs in the Bell, one of the rooms is haunted by the ghost of a serving girl who has been seen on frequent occasions, dressed in 18th century clothing with a white mob cap. The original story, that she was murdered by the Jacobites in 1745, has nothing to substantiate it, but she has been seen on two occasions in connection with children. In the 1930s, the landlord had an asthmatic son. One afternoon he heard him coughing and choking in his bedroom. The boy's father ran upstairs and burst into the bedroom, to find a lady dressed in 18th century costume bending his son over and patting him on the back. As the boy's father took over, the mysterious figure simply vanished before his eyes.

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