The Royal Shrovetide Football Match is a "medieval football" game played annually on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday in the town of Ashbourne in Derbyshire...
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names include folk football, mob football and Shrovetide football. These games may be regarded as the ancestors of modern codes of football, and by comparison...
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Atherstone Ball Game (category Football in Warwickshire)
year at Shrovetide, the others being the Royal Shrovetide Football match held in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, and The Alnwick Shrovetide Football Match in...
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Northumberland Royal Shrovetide Football in Ashbourne, Derbyshire The Shrovetide Ball Game in Atherstone, Warwickshire The Shrove Tuesday Football Ceremony...
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List of sports (section Football family)
football Ba game Caid Calcio Fiorentino Camping (game) Cnapan Cornish hurling Haxey Hood Knattleikr La soule Mob football Royal Shrovetide Football Uppies...
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Henmore Brook (section Royal Shrovetide Football)
subsequently demolished, they have become the goals for the annual Royal Shrovetide Football match. The Henmore brook, or as it is usually called in reference...
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Green Man, Ashbourne (redirect from Green Man & Black's Head Royal Hotel)
for its Grade II* listed entrance sign and its association with Royal Shrovetide Football. There has been a pub in this location since the 1750s. James...
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stone which acts as the Down'ards goal in the annual traditional Royal Shrovetide Football match. There are two adjacent stone markers, the old and the new...
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Retrieved 2 September 2021. "The Sporting Statues Project: The Hug (Shrovetide Football): Mayfield Road, Ashbourne, Derbyshire". offbeat.group.shef.ac.uk...
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River Dove at the higher designation of Grade II*. This is a medieval football game played annually on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday in the town of...
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village-wide football games with their own rules are played at: Alnwick in Northumberland Ashbourne in Derbyshire (known as Royal Shrovetide Football) Atherstone...
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buildings and independent shops. The town offers a historic annual Shrovetide football match. Its position near the southern edge of the Peak District makes...
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Tuesday (also known as Pancake Tuesday or Pancake Day) is the final day of Shrovetide, marking the end of pre-Lent. Lent begins the following day with Ash Wednesday...
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Uppies and Downies over Easter at Workington in Cumbria and the Royal Shrovetide Football Match on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday at Ashbourne in Derbyshire...
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Mermaid's Pool Nanny Rutt Old Jeffrey Relics of St. Oswald Robin Hood Royal Shrovetide Football Stiperstones Tiddy Mun Wise Men of Gotham Witches of Belvoir The...
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of Ashbourne in Derbyshire is known for its Royal Shrovetide Football, described as a "medieval football game", played annually on Shrove Tuesday and...
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La soule (category Traditional football)
Greek ball game Trigon – a Roman ball game Medieval football – in Europe Royal Shrovetide Football – heraldic similarity – three cockerels History of physical...
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Other local customs include Castleton Garland Day and Ashbourne's Royal Shrovetide Football, played annually since the 12th century. Buxton hosts two opera...
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Flag football is a variant of gridiron football (American football or Canadian football depending on location) where, instead of tackling players to the...
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Sedgefield Ball Game (category Traditional football)
The game was cancelled in 2021 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Royal Shrovetide Football in the town of Ashbourne in Derbyshire, England. Scoring the Hales...
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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their...
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Gaelic football (Irish: Peil Ghaelach; short name Peil), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it...
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Haxey Hood (category Traditional football)
similarities to other village combats, such as Ashbourne's Royal Shrovetide Football, the Shrove Tuesday Football Games in Sedgefield, Durham and Alnwick, Northumberland...
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In association football, a football club (or association football club, alternatively soccer club) is a sports club that acts as an entity through which...
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the first Dutch football club. Ten years later, in 1889, the Royal Dutch Football Association (the KNVB) was founded. Association football was introduced...
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it was extended in 1914. Many locals take part in the famous Royal Shrovetide Football match played in Ashbourne on two afternoons during February. An...
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Freestyle football is the art of juggling a football using any part of the body, excluding the elbows to the hands. It combines football tricks, dance...
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Five-a-side football is a version of minifootball, in which each team fields five players (four outfield players and a goalkeeper). Other differences from...
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American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams...
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Hugh Hornby, on the so-called 'extraordinary football games of Britain' such as the Royal Shrovetide Football match at Ashbourne, the Kirkwall Ba Game at...
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