June Calendar: Thames Valley

May

June

1	St. Wistan's Day	Duck Feast: Charlton, Wiltshire.
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2	St. Elmo's Day	.
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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.
	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.