Busky-Dyke, the Busky-Dyke,
Ah! tread its path with care,
With silent step haste through its shade,
For "Bargest" wanders there!
In his 'Yorkshire Legends and Traditions' (written in the late 1800's) the Rev Thomas Parkinson mentions the Barghest of Busky Dike Lane - just to the west of Fewston village, 7 miles to the west of Harrogate.
The Barghest was a supernatural creature capable of assuming different forms, but often appearing as a very large and menacing black dog with glowing eyes. The rev. Parkinson had spent his childhood at Crag Hall near Fewston, so he would have heard tales of local ghosts and spirits, but by the time he came to publish his book in 1888, the tradition of the Fewston Barghest had faded, and the area changed dramatically with the building of a reservoir in the Washburn valley.