Plough Monday, on the 7th, is a traditional day for the beginning of the farm and garden year.
At the start of April,
Plough Monday brewed its first batch of beer.
Plough Monday is the first Monday after 12th night when country folk, labourers and agricultural workers traditionally returned to their fields for work, marking the start of a new agricultural year.
Amongst the village customs of past years none was so popular with the farm servants as 'ptoughboying', and the men servants of Acaster and the adjacent villages generally arranged each year to gather up a company of' 'ploughboys', who held festival in York and neighbourhood during
Plough Monday and the succeeding days of the week [...] In chose latter days Acaster, Bishopthorpe, and Naburn (like other villages) frequently sent a united band of farm servants into the city, on or about
Plough Monday who amused the citizens with their peculiar dress and antics [...] It frequently happened that when two or three villages joined to form a company, each village sent a king and queen as part of their contingent.
Q DOES anyone remember
Plough Monday - on the second Monday in January.
* Today, morris is performed on days such as
Plough Monday, Easter and the start of spring and is still associated with ensuring a good crop.
The local Bullockers group gathered to mark
Plough Monday with a traditional dance around Hinckley and villages including Sharnford.
First of all, early commentators on the document speculated that it must refer to a lost
Plough Monday play.
* 8:
Plough Monday (Traditionally, men returned to their work and solicited money for a "plough light" for the church.)