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Lent IV, V, Holy Week & Easter  

Sun Mothering Sunday Simnel Cakes & Frumenty
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LENT IV  Mothering Sunday: Church Clipping: All Saints, Hastings, Sussex. 
Sun Passion / Carling Sunday Whirlin Sunday: Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
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LENT V  Passion Sunday

Sun Palm Sunday Distribution of Pax Cakes: Herefordshire.
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Thu Maundy Thursday Royal Maundy Money.
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Fri Good Friday Hot Cross Buns & Football
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Sat Holy Saturday Pace Egging & Coconut Dancers
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Maundy Thu: Distribution of the Royal Maundy Money: originally Westminster Abbey, London, but now at a different Cathedral each year.Marvyn Dole: Ufton Nervet, Berkshire.
Good Fri: Hanging up the Hot Cross Bun: 75 Devons Road, London. Uppies and Doonies Ball Game: Workington, Cumbria.  British Marbles Championship: Tinsley Green, Sussex.  Egg Rolling: Holcombe Hill, Bury, Manchester.  Orange Rolling: Dunstable Downs, Bedfordshire.  Skipping: Alciston, Sussex.  Maids Money: St. Mary's Church, Reading, Berks.
Sat: Britannia Coconut Dancers: Bacup, Lancashire. Pace Egging: Ambleside, Cumbria. Pace-egging Play: Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire.
Sun Easter Sunday Easter Parades
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Mon Easter Monday Sports.
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Fri . Election of Hocktide Officials: Hungerford, Berks.
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Easter Sunday: Battersea Park Carnival Parade: London.  
Easter Mon: Hare Pie Scramble & Bottle Kicking: Hallaton, Leicestershire.  Coal Carrying Championships: Gawthorpe, Yorkshire.  Harness Horse Parade: Regents Park, London. 
Tue: Issuing the Twopenny Starvers: St. Michael's Church, Bristol.
Sun Hock Sunday .

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Pussy Willows Pussy Willow: Palm Willow, Gosling Tree, Sally Withy. Traditional decoration in churches on Palm Sunday.
Pasque Flower Pasque Flower: Coventry Bells, Danes Blood. Blooms at Pasch (Eastertide)