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Mossy Christian: Created the page using text supplied by GPS Chairman Keith Thompson for Folkopidea.

2021-04-11T17:31:38Z

Created the page using text supplied by GPS Chairman Keith Thompson for Folkopidea.

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	Goathland Plough Stots are a traditional ~~longsword~~ team ~~from~~ the village of Goathland in North Yorkshire~~, England~~.		The Goathland Plough Stots are a traditional Long Sword Dance team located in the small moorland village
			of Goathland set in the North York Moors National Park located some nine
			miles east of Whitby.

			Regarded as having one of the oldest surviving long sword dance tradition in
			Britain, the team was revived in 1921 by Francis Wrightson Dowson, a
			schoolteacher, born in the village at New Wath who counted Cecil Sharp
			amongst his many friends. The social changes within the village as it became a
			tourist resort and internal conflict within the meant that it had ceased dancing
			in 1888, thanks to the efforts of Frank Dowson the team has flourished ever
			since.

			There are five, six-man circular dances and one eight-man dance, referred to as
			No Mans Jig, all of which culminate in a sword lock held aloft by the King. The
			dancers wear equal numbers of pink and blue tunics with white cuffs and
			collars set about with a white sash taken from the political colours of the
			Whigs and Tories; the trousers are grey with a red stripe down the leg, a
			reference to the Crimean War and black shoes, the musicians tunics are half
			pink and half blue.

			Each year is commenced with the Annual Blessing of the Plough Service in St.
			Marys Church, a service held on the first Sunday after twelfth night, which
			moves to the next Sunday if twelfth night is a Sunday. The Day of Dance on the
			following Saturday is when teams travel around the Parish dancing and
			collecting with the final dance outside the Birch Hall Inn Beckhole late in the
			day which finishes with the Annual Plough Stot Rosh or Dinner of Roast Beef
			and Yorkshire Puddings held in one of the local hostelries.

			The team regularly
			performs at Folk Festivals and other events both within the UK and abroad.

Mossy Christian at 18:25, 8 February 2021

2021-02-08T18:25:14Z

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	Goathland Plough Stots are a traditional longsword team from the village of Goathland in North Yorkshire, England.		Goathland Plough Stots are a traditional longsword team from the village of Goathland in North Yorkshire, England.
	~~[[Image:Stots.JPEG.jpg]]~~

Mossy Christian at 18:25, 8 February 2021

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	Goathland Plough Stots are a traditional longsword team from the village of Goathland in North Yorkshire, England.		Goathland Plough Stots are a traditional longsword team from the village of Goathland in North Yorkshire, England.
	[[Image:Stots.JPEG]]		[[Image:Stots.JPEG.jpg]]

Mossy Christian at 18:23, 8 February 2021

2021-02-08T18:23:11Z

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	Goathland Plough Stots are a traditional longsword team from the village of Goathland in North Yorkshire, England.		Goathland Plough Stots are a traditional longsword team from the village of Goathland in North Yorkshire, England.
	[[Image:Stots.~~JPG~~]]		[[Image:Stots.JPEG]]

Mossy Christian at 18:22, 8 February 2021

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	Goathland Plough Stots are a traditional longsword team from the village of Goathland in North Yorkshire, England.		Goathland Plough Stots are a traditional longsword team from the village of Goathland in North Yorkshire, England.
	[[Image:~~PloughStots~~.JPG]]		[[Image:Stots.JPG]]

Mossy Christian: Added photo

2021-02-08T18:21:30Z

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	Goathland Plough Stots are a traditional longsword team from the village of Goathland in North Yorkshire, England.		Goathland Plough Stots are a traditional longsword team from the village of Goathland in North Yorkshire, England.
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Mossy Christian: Added info

2021-02-07T19:18:07Z

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2021-02-07T19:15:45Z

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