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    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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    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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    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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    Northumberland Royal Shrovetide Football in Ashbourne, Derbyshire The Shrovetide Ball Game in Atherstone, Warwickshire The Shrove Tuesday Football Ceremony...
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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Gaelic football (Irish: Peil Ghaelach; short name Peil, Ulster Scots: Gaelic fitbaw), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or Football is an Irish team...
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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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    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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    Association football, commonly known as football, or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet...
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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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  • 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, stretches back at least to medieval times. Some predecessors of football may date back...
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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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  • 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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    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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    association football, the formation of a team refers to the position players take in relation to each other on a pitch. As association football is a fluid...
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