N Yorkshire's Mysterious Sites -------------Hauntings------------ Spofforth Castle Marston Moor A64 Scarborough Castle Acaster Malbis ---------------Major Sites----------- Whitby Haunted York -----Stone Circles and Henges----- The Devil's Arrows ---------------Legends----------- Richmond Castle Middleham Castle Semer Water Giggleswick Knaresborough Athelhampton Manor ---------------Folklore----------- Fountains Abbey Brimham Rocks Bainbridge West Witton Upsall Trollers Gill Hobhole Bridestones Filey Brig Home Site Map Yorkshire Map England Map Scotland Map Wales Map Middleham Castle The castle is reputed to be the site of a buried hoard of treasure, to find it you must run a round the castle three times, and where you stop the treasure will be found. Unfortunately there is no indication of where you should start. Map ref: SE 1387 Directions: Off the A6108 to the South of Leyburn. Bainbridge Associated with a 700 year old tradition of horn blowing. The horn was sounded every night during the autumn and winter months. It was once a guide to travellers, who may have become lost in the great forests that surrounded the area. Map ref: SD 9390 Directions: Off the A684 to the East of Hawes. West Witton Famous for the Burning of the Bartle festival, when an effigy of St Bartholomew is burned in the town. The festival takes place on the first (or nearest) Saturday after the 24th of August. A life-sized effigy called the bartle is stabbed and then set ablaze, the root of the ceremony is supposed to relate to either: a pig thief who was executed in the 18th century after hiding in the local hills, some relation to St Bartholomew, or a giant who roamed the area. The following rhyme is associated with the ceremony: In Penhill crags he tore his rags At Hunter's Thorn he blew his horn, At Caplebank Stee he broke his knee At Briskill Beck, he broke his neck, At Wadham's End, he couldn't fend. At Briskill End, he made his end. Shout boys shout. Map ref: SE0587 Directions: On the A684 to the West of Layburn.