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Shrove Tuesday |
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Ash Wednesday |
Cakes & Ale Sermon: St. Paul's Crypt,
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Sunday before Lent (Quinquagesima) Shrove
Tuesday:Pancake Races: Olney, Buckinghamshire. Lincoln's
Inn Fields, London. Whitby Pier, Yorkshire & many other places.
Pancake Tossing: Westminster School, London. Shrovetide
Tip-toeing: Gettisham, Devon. Going a-shroving: Durweston,
Dorset. Driving the Devil into the Sea: Clovelly,
Devon. Skipping: Scarborough, Yorkshire. Hurling:
St.Columb Major & St. Columb Minor, Cornwall. Shrovetide
Football: Corfe Castle, Dorset. Chester Le Street,
Durham. Ashbourne, Derbyshire. & many other
places.
"So much as the sun shineth on Pancake Tuesday, the
like will shine on every day in Lent"
Ash
Wed:"Wherever the wind lies on Ash Wednesday, it continues during
all Lent" |