January

Plough Monday

This is the first Monday after Epiphany, the first day of the first week back at work after the Christmas holidays.

Events associated with Plough Monday include:

Dates vary regionally. Bread or toast is soaked in cider and hung in the apple trees. Guns are then fired into the trees.

Held in Whittlesey near Peterborough, Second weekend in January.

Long Company Web site 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th of January

Haxey Hood A football match where the players are perhaps more violent than the fans - takes place in Lincolnshire on January 6th.

There is a Wikipedia entry here

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