The narrow stone bridge over the River Noe at Shatton carries the road up from the valley into the hamlet, and it is here that a phantom farmer has occasionally been seen. He wears a long smock and a brown felt hat tapering to a point, carries a horn lantern with a tallow candle, and has white whiskers and rosy cheeks. The housekeeper of Dr Mary Andrews, a woman named Minnie Addy, encountered him one winter night while walking home from Bamford station. Glancing back nervously as she crossed the bridge, she saw an old-time farmer following her, quite distinct in the light of his lantern. She hurried on. When she looked back again he was passing between the stone stoops, the same stoops mentioned in accounts of the Boggart of Shatton Lane, and disappearing along the path toward Offerton and Hathersage.
Minnie had not been long in the neighbourhood and had no knowledge of the local phantom. When she described the figure to Dr Andrews, who passed the description on to friends nearby, they identified him immediately as the phantom farmer occasionally seen in Shatton.
