January

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Contents 1 Plough Monday 2 Wassailing 3 Straw Bear Festival 4 Traditional drama 5 Traditional Games 6 Traditional Races 7 Traditional Lunacy

[edit] Plough Monday

This is the first Monday after Epiphany, the first day of the first week back at work after the Christmas holidays.

Events associated with Plough Monday include:

• Mummers Plays
• Plough Bullocks

[edit] Wassailing

Dates vary regionally. Bread or toast is soaked in cider and hung in the apple trees. Guns are then fired into the trees.

Apple Howling at Henfield

[edit] Straw Bear Festival

Held in Whittlesey near Peterborough, Second weekend in January.

[edit] Traditional drama

Ripponden, West Yorkshire: Long Company Web site 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th of January

[edit] Traditional Games

Haxey Hood A football match where the players are perhaps more violent than the fans - takes place in Lincolnshire on January 6th.

There is a Wikipedia entry here

[edit] Traditional Races

Ponteland Wheelbarrow Race

[edit] Traditional Lunacy

Whitley Bay Sea Swim

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