This old custom is helf on the Satuday nearest to the 24th August (St Bartholomew's Day) at 9:00pm - the day West Witton Feast is also held. A scarecrow is paraded from Chantry Bank at the end of the village, along the Main Street - where those that carry the ffigt ccall in for drinks and pubs and houses. When it reaches Grassgill Lane the 'body' of Bartle (said to be a vagabond) is dumped against a dry stone wall and set alight. A doggerel verse is chanted all along the route.
Негізгі бет Burning Bartle, West Witton, Wensleydale, Yorkshire Dales
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