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Ballig ( gv, farm of the hollow, also known as Ballig Bridge) is a small hamlet of a few houses situated between the 8th and 9th Milestone road-side markers on the
Snaefell Mountain Course between
Ballacraine and
Glen Helen. It is the site of a former notorious hump-back bridge used for the
Isle of Man TT
The Isle of Man TT or Tourist Trophy races are an annual motorcycle racing event run on the Isle of Man in May/June of most years since its inaugural race in 1907. The event is often called one of the most dangerous racing events in the world ...
Races on the primary
A3 Castletown to
Ramsey
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and the road junction with the
A20 Poortown Road in the parish of
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in the
Isle of Man
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The former Ballig Bridge was part of the
Highland Course
Highroads Course was a road-racing circuit used for the Gordon Bennett British Eliminating Trial held in the Isle of Man for the 1904 and 1905 Tourist Trophy Race involving touring automobiles and cars. The events were held on public roads clos ...
and
Four Inch Course
The Four Inch Course was a road-racing circuit first used for the 1908 Tourist Trophy Race for cars, held on public roads closed for racing by an Act of Tynwald (the parliament of the Isle of Man). The name of the course derives from the regu ...
used for the
Gordon Bennett Trial and
Tourist Trophy automobile car races held in the Isle of Man between 1904 and 1922. Also, Ballig Bridge was part of the
St John's Short Course used between 1907 and 1910 and part of the Snaefell Mountain Course used since 1911 for the Isle of Man TT Races and 1923 for the
Manx Grand Prix.
The area is dominated by the farmland, including the Beary Mountain, St John's village, and Tynwald Mills. A number of changes occurred to the Mountain Course during the 1930s with extensive road widening on the A18 Mountain Road and the removal of the hump-back bridge and road straightening
[''Isle of Man Weekly Times'' dated 25 May 1935] at Ballig for the 1935 racing season and the road work is completed for the Manx Grand Prix in September 1935. The George Formby film
No Limit (1936 film) used the
1935 Isle of Man TT
For the 1935 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy, Stanley Woods provided another surprise by moving again, from Husqvarna to Moto Guzzi.
The 1935 Junior TT Race provided a Junior TT double win for Jimmie Guthrie at an average race speed of and Norton wi ...
races as a backdrop for filming including Ballig Bridge.
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Ballig Bridge