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This delightful small
Staffordshire town has its own village green
and butter cross and also boasts timber-framed
buildings dating to the Elizabethan period.
Even older, though, is the ancient Abbots
Bromley horn dance, a pagan rite played out
each year at nearby Blithfield Hall in which
six local men wear reindeer’s antlers while
another acts the fool. It is thought to be a
Saxon celebration of the granting of rights to
villagers to hunt in nearby Needwood Forest. |
Cottages in Abbots Bromley - Photo:
Geoff Pick
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