Austwick

C & L took the old folks to the Austwick Cuckoo Festival and Street Market today, where we met up with L's parents, L's Mum was born and raised in Austwick.
Fortunately the weather was kind to us and all the stall holders.
According to local folk lore the people of Austwick found that their luck and weather improved when the cuckoos arrived. Deciding one year to extend the 'good times', they found the tree in which the cuckoo perched and laboured all day to build a wall round it! As it grew dark and before the wall was completed the cuckoo flew away! So Austwick became known as Cuckoo town'.