The North’s Leading Bike Meet..
Devilsbridge Folklore..
ACCORDING TO LOCAL FOLKLORE THE BRIDGE AT DEVILSBRIDGE IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN BUILT BY THE DEVIL HIMSELF.
AS LEGENDS GO IT SAYS THAT AN ELDERLY LADY HAD A COW WHICH ACCIDENTALLY STRAYED ACROSS TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BANK OF THE RIVER LUNE.
THE DEVIL APPEARED AND WAS SAID TO HAVE MADE A DEAL WITH HER TO BUILD A BRIDGE SO SHE COULD CROSS THE RIVER TO REGAIN HER COW, THE DEAL ALSO INCLUDED THAT THE FIRST LIVING THING THAT CROSSED THE BRIDGE THE DEVIL WOULD TAKE THEIR SOUL.
THE OLD LADY RETURNED THE NEXT MORNING TO SEE IF THE BRIDGE HAD BEEN BUILT AND AS IT HAD SHE THREW A LITTLE BIT OF FOOD ACROSS TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BRIDGE, THEN SHE PUT HER DOG DOWN WHICH WENT FOR THE FOOD, THE DEVIL THEN LET OUT A HOWL OF RAGE AND DISAPPEARED.
IT IS SAID TO THIS DAY THAT THE MARKS OF HIS FINGERS ARE STILL TO BE SEEN ON ONE OF THE COPING STONES ON THE BRIDGE.
