June Calendar: Thames Valley

June

1	St. Wistan's Day	Duck Feast: Charlton, Wiltshire.
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5	St. Boniface's Day	.
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6	.	D Day Landings 1944
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7	St. Meriasek's Day	.
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June: York Mystery Plays. Bideford Bridge Foot Race: Devon. Town Criers Competition: Pewsey, Wiltshire. Morris Dancing: Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
1st Mon: Trinity Fair: Southwold, Suffolk.
1st Thu: Neston Women's Club Walk: Wirral, Cheshire.
1st Fri: Sick Club Procession: Stoke Abbot, Dorset.

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9	St Columba's Day.	"May" Festivities: Shillingstone, Dorset
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11	St. Barnabas' Day	Old St. Barnaby Fair: Macclesfield, Cheshire.
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8: "If on the 8th of June it rain,
It foretells a wet harvest, men sain."

"On St. Barnabas put a scythe to the grass"

Thu before 2nd Wed: Appleby Horse Fair: Westmoorland.
2nd Sat: Trooping the Colour: Horse Guards Parade, London.

15	St. Vitus' Day	Rose Service: St Alban's Cathedral
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18	Waterloo Day	Duke of Wellington's Quit Rent: Stratfield Saye
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21	Summer Solstice	Sunrise over the Heel Stone: Stonehenge, Wilts.
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15: "If St. Vitus's Day be rainy weather,
It will rain for thirty days together"
17: St. Nectan's procession: St. Nectan's well, Hartland Point, Devon.
Sat before the Solstice: Bawming the Thorn: Appleton Thorn, Cheshire.
Sat on or before 20: Election of the Mayor of Ock Street: Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

22	St. Thomas More's Day	Midsummer Fair: Cambridge.
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23	.	Well Dressing: Buxton, Derbyshire
.	Midsummer Eve. St. John's Eve.	Midsummer Bonfires: Cornwall.
24	Midsummer Day. St. John's Day	Latest Corpus Christi.
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25	St. Non's Day	.
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26	St. Anne's Day	.
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28	.	Rushbearing: Barrowden, Leicestershire.
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29	St. Peter & St. Paul's Day.	Rushbearing: Warcop, Cumbria.
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23: Lighting the first Midsummer Bonfire: Carn Brea & St. Cleer Bonfire: Liskeard, Cornwall.
Before St. John's Day we pray for rain, after that we get it anyhow."
24: Election of Officers by the Liverymen of the Guilds: Guildhall , London.
24: Ceremony of the Fresh-Pluck't Rose: Mansion House, London. Payment of the Rose Rent: Leicester.
Sat nearest 24: Well Dressing: Youlgreave & Tideswell, Derbyshire.
Near 24: Mazy Day: Penzance, Cornwall
Sun following 24: Winster Wakes: Debyshire
Sun following 29: Hay Strewing: Wingrave, Buckinghamshire. The Rush Sermon: Farnborough, Kent. Blessing the Sea: Folkstone, Kent.
Last Mon: The Plague Feast: Hepworth, Yorkshire
Last Sat: Glastonbury Pilgrimage: Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset. Well Dressing: Bakewell & Hope, Derbyshire.
Last Weekend: Bilston Carnival: West Midlands.

	Dog Rose: The wild rose sees in the month of June. "Unkempt about those hedges blows, An English unofficial Rose." Its blooming foretold the beginning of harvest in seven weeks time and the summer shearing of sheep: "Must not shear the sheep of its wool, before the Dog-rose is at the full." (Hertfordshire)
	Lime Blossom: After the summer solstice, the fragrant lime flowers blossom, ushering in the warm muggy days of high summer.

The Linden Tree: In German tradition the Linden (Lime) tree is a place to meet for celebration and dancing. It was also a place to hold their judicial "thing" meetings, since the tree was supposed to unearth the truth.