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Beating the Bounds on Ascension Day, Oxford, United Kingdom : Reviews of Beating the Bounds on Ascension Day - Yahoo! Travel
The ceremony of 'Beating the Bounds' is conducted on Ascension Day, which is celebrated on the fortieth day after Easter. This custom, which began way back in...
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In the later part of the Middle Ages what had started as a simple ceremony occurring alongside older Pagan traditions became the feast of Rogantide, fixed in the liturgical calendar to coincide with the three days before Ascension Day, the fifth week after Easter. It became a major event in the chur...
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British Airways - Event Guide: Beating the Bounds (Church of St Michael, Oxford, England)
0nce a year on Ascension Day, members of St Michael's congregation process through Oxford marking out the parish boundary in a traditional ceremony known as the Beating of the Bounds. It involves beating specially marked boundary stones with sticks and, since some of the stones are in bars, pubs and...
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. Many other local residents took part—each of whom would be able to ‘bear witness’ in any future boundary dispute—and a number of boys were also taken along, to ensure that the knowledge was passed to future generations. These youngsters were useful in that they could be made to clamber thr...
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