July Calendar: Thames Valley

June

July

1	St. Serf's Day	Former Cherry Fair: Odiham, Hampshire.
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.	Old Midsummer Eve.	Baal Fire: Whalton, Northumberland.
5	Old Midsummer Day.	Tynwald Ceremony: St. John's, Isle of Man
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JUL First Week Sun Rises 0447 Sets 2121 BST

Early July: Miracle Plays: Chester. Gooseberry Fair: Tollesbury, Essex.
Fri nearest 1: Walk Day: Warrington, Cheshire
Thu after 4: Procession of the Worshipful Company of Vintners: London
1st Sun: Early Music Afternoon: Weald & Downland Museum, Singleton, Sussex.
1st Mon: Former custom Lot-meadow Drawing: Yarnton, Oxfordshire
1st Sat: Rush Bearing: Great Musgrave, Westmoorland. Heritage Day: Bodmin, Cornwall. Rose Fair Procession: Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
1st Week: Llangollen International Eisteddfod: Denbighshire

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13	St. Mildred's Day	.
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JUL Second Week Sun Rises 0453 Sets 2117 BST

Sun after 7: Kilburn Feast: Yorkshire.
2nd Wed: St. Peter's Fair & Pretty Maids Charity: Holsworthy, Devon.
2nd Sat: Well Dressing: Dore, Derbyshire. Many other Well Dressings around this time in Derbyshire.

15	St. Swithin's Day	Proclomation for Seamer Fair: Yorkshire.
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19	Sighting of Armada	Little Edith's Treat: Piddinghoe, Sussex.
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20	St. Margaret's Day.	Plum Dumplings (Heg Peg Dump)
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St. Swithin's day, if it do rain,
For forty days it will remain.
St. Swithin's day on it be fair,
For forty days t'will rain no mair.
Sun nearest 15: Hay Strewing: St. Swithin's Church, Old Weston, Huntingdonshire.
Mid July: 1st Night of the Proms: Albert Hall, London.
3rd Sat: Highland Games: Corby, Northamptonshire.
3rd Full Week: Swan-upping: The Thames, Surrey & Berkshire
Tue & Wed after 19: Honiton Glove Fair: Devon.
Tue before 3rd Wed: Lammas Glove Fair: Exeter, Devon.

22	St. Mary Magdelene's Day.
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25	St. James & Christopher. Grotto Day	Ebernoe Horn Fair: Ebernoe, Sussex.
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JUL Last Week Sun Rises 0510 Sets 2103 BST

Late Jul: Miracle Plays: Coventry Cathedral Ruins.
St. Anne's Well Pilgrimage: Bristol.
25: Blessing the Oyster Boats: Whitstable, Kent. John Knill Charity: St. Ives, Cornwall. St. Christopher's Day Blessing: St Michael Paternoster, London.
Last Thu: Pilgrimage to Padley Chapel: Derbyshire
Last Sat: Well Dressing: Bonswell & Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire.
Last Week: Congleton Wakes: Cheshire.