Dun Cow - Whittingham

Whittingham

A similar legend applies to Dun Cow Rib Farm in Halfpenny Lane, Whittingham, Lancashire, just outside the town of Longridge. Embedded in its wall a large rib, supposedly from a giant dun cow that gave milk freely to all comers, but died of shock when an old witch asked it to fill a riddle (sieve) instead of a pail. An alternative legend claims that the giant cow's milk saved the local inhabitants from the Plague, and it was buried at nearby Cow Hill, near Grimsargh. In reality, the rib is probably from a whale or Bronze Age aurochs.

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