spring bank holiday
101Clive Parker — (standing) 1975 Background information Also known as CP, CP Snare Origin Camberley, Surrey …
102Bampton Morris Dancers — Bampton, Oxfordshire, has one of the best known *mor ris traditions in the country, and is one of the few villages which can claim an unbroken tradition (apart from during the First World War) of dancing over the past 150 years. The earliest… …
103Barwick-in-Elmet maypole — The site in Yorkshire of what was previously claimed to be the tallest *maypole in the country (86 feet), but Ansty in Wiltshire erected a new one (96 feet) in 1982. Every three years the maypole is lowered and removed from its central village …
104Bellerby Feast — The remnant of the old style village *feast, the celebrations at Bellerby in North Yorkshire now focus on one day of fun and games. The principal participants dress as clowns and, accompanied by an accordion player, drummer, and helpers, they… …
105cheese rolling — In this annual custom a large round Double Gloucester cheese is set off rolling down a very steep hill at Cooper s Hill, near Brockworth (Gloucestershire). People chase after it themselves running, tumbling, rolling, and bouncing and the one… …
106Lichfield Court of Array — Sherriff s Ride, and Greenhill Bower Lichfield, Staffordshire, preserves several unique customs which are now linked. The Court of Array is a genuine survival of a previous serious and practical event: by the Assize of Arms, an Act passed in… …
107United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
108United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… …
109Academic term — An academic term is a division of an academic year, the time during which a school, college or university holds classes. These divisions may be called terms , semesters , quarters , or trimesters , depending on the institution and the country.In… …
110Butlins — Butlin s Holiday Camps, presently known by the (non possessive) trademark Butlins, were founded by (later Sir) Billy Butlin to provide economical holidays (North American English: vacations) in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Between 1936 and… …
