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The Back Dymock A 1 IN-MARSH On New Year’s day in the TEWKESBURY 4 Badge carries an image of the first Sunday in A n 3 Wo olstone 4 morning r 5 A the Sphinx and the word May cheeses are e 1 2 4 ev 4 4 M50 8 S ‘Egypt’. The Regiment is now From dawn on New Year’s Day, rolled three times r 3 Gotherington e A 5 A v i part of The Rifles. anti-clockwise 4 at Upton St Leonards, R BISHOP’S Randwick Wap. Photo: © Cal Williams 1 Winchcombe Gotherington and Woolstone, Photo: © Louise Perrin (widdershins) 9 7 CLEEVE Rear badge. Photo: Soldiers of 10 Gloucestershire Museum children went from house to house singing this rhyme around the church. This is followed by the Wap on 4 3 NEWENT s STOW and were rewarded with apples and cakes. This was the second Saturday. The custom probably dates back 10 A ON THE 40 10 Stow Horse Fair – nearest known as ‘bud-welling’ or ‘buff blowing’. to the Middle Ages but was suppressed in 1892. 19 WOLD 13 d Thursday to 24th October and 12th May 0 5 Revived in 1972, a colourful procession of villagers 4 A In 1476 a charter goes from the War Memorial to the Mayor’s Pool led 8 3 CHELTENHAM 436 l 8 FEBRUARY A A Bourton-on-the-Water for two fairs, the by the Mop Man who swishes his wet mop to clear A40 11 A40 the way. 10 o first in May and the February fills the dyke 0 second in October 2 A4 9 R 2 Whether with black or white GLOUCESTER 4 i Bisley Well Dressing - Ascension Day 6 A v was granted. These 4 436 e 48 12 5 11a A A w r A were held on 12th A W St. Valentine’s Day – First held in 1863. A short Church Service is followed Brockworth 40 Shin kicking. Photo: © Chris Osburn i May, the feast of 14th February by a procession to Bisley’s seven wells. The twenty- A4 n Upton 17 s d r Saints Philip and two eldest children in the Bluecoat village school carry and dancing, and were held on St. Leonards A4 u On St Valentine’s 35 t s Photo: www.cotswolds.info James and the the wreaths and what is now Dover’s Hill above 8 h Day/Cast Beans in The 1 A 24th October the feast of St. Edward the Confessor. garlands that Chipping Campden. Robert Cranham 4 R 1 io A 6 7 Clay 4 v R Today these fairs are a major event in the gypsy Dover probably instituted the Royal 4 e head the A i 1 r 7 v 12 calendar providing important opportunities to gather (old saying from 1620 Games to support King James I’s 3 C e procession and r C h 9 Berkeley Vale) Forest of 2 and trade. anti-Puritan ‘Book of Sports’ and Painswick u 4 T R form the b iv A h er b a L Photo: © Gloucester Folk centrepiece of initially enjoyed aristocratic Dean M5 5 m ea 5 9 es c Paganhill e A h Museum the ceremony. patronage, hailed in Annalia 4 NOVEMBER Randwick 5 1 13 7 These consist of Dubrensia (1636), a collection of 5 l 11 Bisley a A h n 8 41 In Stroud there are early 19th century records Stars of David, poems. They soon became a St. Briavels a 3 9 11 C A STROUD of fire and fireworks at the Cross on Bonfire MARCH the letters A.D. purely rustic occasion, and LYDNEY T Night (5th November) and of flaming pitch and tar Bisley Well Dressing. Photo: © Clare and the year, continued for well over two 10 3 When you can put your foot on ten barrels but these activities were stopped in 1824. daisies, spring is here Auchterlonie letters spelling hundred years until the early 3 A419 CIRENCESTER out the word ‘Ascension’ and five hoops. Similar 1850s, when they were 7 Minchinhampton 299 A417 LENT CUSTOMS 8 Berkeley Nympsfield 4 ceremonies are observed in the Peak District. suppressed because of alleged A DECEMBER NAILSWORTH 9 A4 Collop Monday is the day before Shrove Tuesday. It disorder and rioting. r n 2 19 e Avening St Thomas’s Day – 21st December was when the last St Briavels Bread and Cheese Dole – Whit Sunday 3 8 v A4 A43 12 4 e 135 6 meat of the season A This custom is said to date back to the 12th century, S 4 Please to remember St Thomas’s Day, was eaten, in the A but the earliest account comes from 1779. Small r A St Thomas’s Day is the shortest day. form of collops of M5 4 pieces of bread and cheese are thrown to local ‘dole e 5 19 ‘Thomasing’ was an bacon or mutton. v TETBURY claimers’ who nowadays dress up in medieval i 14 annual visiting custom The fat was used to R known throughout fry pancakes on 8 young people join hands to form a circle around the 3 SEPTEMBER England. On St Thomas’s Shrove Tuesday. A parish church and the service begins. Joining hands, Photo: © Desiree Chow day poor people visited September blow soft they take two steps towards the church, and two back, On Ash Wednesday the traditional dish at M48 9 the houses of better-off Customs, traditions and Till fruit be in the loft while singing the ‘Clypping Hymn’. Afterwards, all the Minchinhampton was pease pudding. neighbours requesting children are given a currant bun. Newent Onion Fayre – Second Saturday in food or provisions to help them through the winter. Next day, Sunday, is Feast Day and associated September Also known as ‘gooding’ or ‘mumping’, the earliest M4M with Bow-Wow Pie. It was customary to bake a meat glorious folk song APRIL reference to the custom is John Stow’s Survey of Newent Onion Fayre is or fruit pie in which the china figure of a dog had been 10 London (1560). Many 19th century Gloucestershire 4 When April blows his horn Photos: © Alan Cleaver and Laura Newsam thought to be the only placed. Sometimes there were smaller dogs within the CHIPPING British celebration of wills refer to St. Thomas Day gifts. Tis good for hay and corn costume. ‘Dole Claimers’ used to be anyone who paid A432 SODBURY pie, one for each person round the table. There are onions. It is said to have Lamprey Pie a penny to the Earl of Hereford for the right to gather several stories which tell how the custom originated. Mothering Sunday – ancient origins but was firewood. The ceremony was held in the church for The Games were revived in Painswickers used to be very sensitive about this, and From the Medieval Fourth Sunday of revived in 1996. It now Cover image: William Hathaway, fidler from Lower Swell. Photo by Cecil Sharp © EFDSS many years, the bread and cheese being thrown from Photo: frontispiece of Annalia Dubrensia when Stroud lads met their fellows from Painswick period, the City of Lent attracts crowds of many the west gallery, but rowdiness led to its being moved they only had to say ‘Here come the bow-wows’ for Gloucester, in token of The modern ‘Mother’s thousands. The highlight to Pound Hill. Some claimants used to pelt the rector 1951 as part of the Festival of M4 Photo: © Emma Wood fighting to break out. Barks and catcalls can still be their loyalty to the royal 1893 English County Songs published by Lucy Broadwood Day’ is an American is an onion-eating www.abritdifferent.co.uk with the food, but others – particularly miners – used Britain, and have been held annually since the early heard at rugby matches in the area. family, presented a pie OF ENGLISH and John Fuller Maitland. First attempt at a national folk song invention dating from 1960s. As in the Annalia Dubrensia frontispiece, the contest in the Market 400 book. Photo: © Louise Eltringham-Smith to keep the morsels ‘for luck’. Freshwater Lamprey. Photo: made from lampreys 1906. Mothering centre of the celebrations is a mock YEARS FOLK MUSIC 1898 Folk Song Society founded by Kate Lee and A.P. Marshfield scriptorsenex.blogspot.com 12 1557 Stationers’ Company begins to keep register of ballads Graves. printed in London. 1899 Folk Song Society publishes first Journal. Kate Lee Mary Tudor queen. Loss of English colony at Calais.