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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of three villages in Yorkshire that retain their rustic maypole. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… company wore masks, which included tents in the garden, maypole and rustic dancing, a gondola and a sea-horse lit …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… between Gannick Bank and the Great North Road stood the Maypole. 56 A group near the White Lion included two … encroachments included a cottage and an inn called the Maypole on the edge of the Chase, between Gannick Bank and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… which in more recent times has been the site of stocks and maypole. A scheme regulating the 10 a. of the Green was made …
Old and New London
… St Mary-le-Strand and the Maypole CHAPTER XIV. ST. MARY-LE-STRAND, THE MAYPOLE, &c. "Fairly we marched on, till our approach Within … the Strand Objected to our sight a summer broach Yelep'd a Maypole, which, in all our land, No city, town, nor street …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… curate c. 1845. 99 A village wake, including sports and maypole dancing, continued in Whit week in the 1850s. 1 It presumably took place on Bailey Tump, where a maypole stood in 1880. 2 In 1826 a friendly society held its …
A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… superscription, To mr. Robert Baxter a barber, neere the Maypole in the Strand, London. An intercepted letter. …
Old and New London
… Before closing this chapter, we may remark that the maypole nearest to the metropolis that stood longest within … Elizabeth Place. The site was then nearly vacant, and the maypole stood in the field on the south side of the Workhouse … boisterous rudeness. In 1517 the unfortunate shaft, or maypole, gave rise to the insurrection of that turbulent …