Atherstone Ball Game
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atherstone-ball-game-188-4114948
title:
Atherstone Ball Game
text:
The Atherstone Ball Game is a "medieval football" game played annually on Shrove Tuesday in the English town of Atherstone, Warwickshire. The game honours a match played between Leicestershire and Warwickshire in 1199, when teams competed for a bag of gold, and which was won by Warwickshire. At one time similar events were held in many towns throughout England, but Atherstone's is now one of at least three such games that are still played each year at Shrovetide, the others being the Royal Shrov
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encyclopedia
description:
Annual medieval football game played in Atherstone, England
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atherstone_Ball_Game
date created:
2017-05-21T20:43:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T20:54:11Z
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