A maypole is a tall wooden pole erected as a part of various European folk festivals, around which a maypole dance often takes place. The festivals may...

"The Maypole" or "To a Birch Tree", known in Welsh as "I'r fedwen", "Y fedwen yn bawl haf", or "Y fedwen las anfadwallt", is a cywydd (a Welsh-language...

Look up maypole in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A maypole is a tall wooden pole. Maypole may also refer to: George M. Maypole (1883-1956), American...

Maypole is a village in the Borough of Dartford in Kent, England. It is located north of Joyden's Wood and south-west of the town of Dartford. In the...

companion), and setting up a Maypole, May Tree or May Bush, around which people dance and sing. Bonfires are also a major part of the festival in some regions...

Maypole Airfield (ICAO: EGHB) was a general aviation airfield located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of Herne Bay, Kent and 5.2 miles (8.4 km) north east of...

The Maypole, Birmingham is a location on the A435 road on the southern edge of Birmingham, England, between Druids Heath and Highter's Heath and bordering...

have the maypole constructed for the residents of the Eastern Star Home for Women and then located at the site. Archer has since continued the custom...

The Maypole Dairy Company or Maypole Dairies were an early chain of British dairies who are also noted as the first people to promote the widespread use...

which is the official distribution channel for Perl libraries and applications. Maypole was one of the first web application frameworks for the Perl programming...

The Maypole Colliery disaster was a mining accident on 18 August 1908, when an underground explosion occurred at the Maypole Colliery, in Abram, near Wigan...

"The May-Pole of Merry Mount" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It first appeared in The Token and Atlantic Souvenir in 1836. It was later included...

television. The last production was a 1960 BBC production; prior to that, silent films were made in 1911 and 1915. Gathered around the fire at the Maypole Inn...

George M. Maypole (July 25, 1883 – January 19, 1956) was an American businessman and politician. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Maypole went to the Chicago...

Archiboldia bowerbirds build so-called maypole bowers, which are constructed by placing sticks around a sapling; in the former two species these bowers have...

children's maypole dancing, morris dancing, a street craft market, the raising of the maypole ceremony and the maypole queen. Traditionally the maypole was lowered...

The Maypole in the Strand was a landmark maypole on the Strand, London, that was in place during the 17th and early 18th centuries, on the site of the...

The maypole in Mt. Angel, Oregon, also known as der maibaum ("the maypole" in German), is a landmark depicting local services and skills. The "tree of...

The observance of May Day in England includes Maypole festivities, culminating in a race by young unmarried men to climb to the top of the Maypole to...

activities, participated in to this day, such as Morris dancing, Maypole dancing, Rapper sword in the North East, Long Sword dance in Yorkshire, Mummers Plays...

previous schools, Conway School and Maypole House School. Parents were told in a letter that the school and the Chatterbox Nursery associated with it...

locally as "the Mound"), and an earlier earthwork known as the Priest's Mount on the Maypole Hill. The name Dromore is an anglicisation of the Irish Druim...

raising of the maypole. Geneva hosts a Swedish Day (Swedish: Svenskarnas Dag) festival on the third Sunday of June. The event, featuring maypole-raising...

is the theme music to the long-running BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers. A "maypole dance" from the suite My Native Heath written in 1924 by the Yorkshire...

by the beginning of the 20th century. Common types of braiding machines work in much the same way as the process of decorating a maypole. At the start...

changes made when the civil parish of Tiptree was established in 1934, the mill was in the parish of Tolleshunt Knights. Messing Maypole Mill was built in...

traditions. Maypole is a celebration that includes a maypole, a tall wooden pole, decorated with several long colored ribbons suspended from the top. This...

semi-rural village and civil parish in the City of Canterbury local government district. The hamlets of Knaves Ash, Maypole, Ford, Old Tree, Shelvingford and...

of the May Day celebrations, teach children of the phallic association of the maypole, and place toads in their mouths to cure sore throats. The islanders...

the May Day celebrations. She is generally crowned by flowers and makes a speech before the dancing begins. Certain age-groups dance around a Maypole...