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New Year's Day |
Sword Dancing & Mummers'
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Pilgrimage to the Holy Thorn: Glastonbury
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Twelfth Night, Old Christmas Eve |
Wassailing: Curry Rivel Somerset |
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Epiphany, Old Christmas Day |
Haxey Hood Game:
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St. Distaff's Day |
Plough Monday: 1st Monday after 6th |
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First Week Sun Rises 0806 Sets 1602
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1: Burning the Bush: Putley Water Mill,
Herefordshire. Symondsbury Mummers' Play: Dorset. Andrew's
Dole: Bideford,
Devon.
Twelfth Night: Hunting the Wren:
Pembrokeshire.
Sat before Plough
Mon: Straw Bear Day:
Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire.
Sun before Plough Monday:
Blessing the Plough: various places. Plough
Sunday Play: Flamstead, Herts. Sword Dancing: Goathland
& Sleights, Yorkshire. Mumming Play: Revesby,
Lincolnshire
Plough Tue: Straw Bear Tuesday: The Fens
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St. Fillan's Day |
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"If the sun shines, it
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St. Hilary's Day |
"The coldest day of the year" |
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JAN Second Week Sun Rises
0804 Sets 1609 GMT
"As the days lengthen, the cold
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"A January spring is worth
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"If there is no snow before January, there will be
the more in March and April."
"Fog in January brings a wet
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St. Ceowulf's Day |
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St. Sigebert's Day |
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St. Anthony's Day |
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Old Twelfth Night |
Wassailing the apple
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St. Wulstan's Day |
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St. Agnes' Eve |
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St. Agnes' Day |
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Third Week Sun
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St. Vincent's Day |
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Conversion of St. Paul |
If St. Paul's Day be faire and
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Burns Night |
It doth betitde a happy year. |
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St. Tortgith's Day |
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Execution of Charles I |
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JAN
Last Week Sun
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Last Thu: Dicing for maids money: Guildford,
Surrey.
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