Royal Shrovetide Football
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The Royal Shrovetide Football Match
The Royal Shrovetide Football Match occurs annually on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday in the town of Ashbourne.
Ashbourne’s Royal Shrovetide Football game is played between the Up’ards, traditionally those from north of the Henmore brook, and the Down’ards, from south of the river. The game starts at the turn-up plinth in the Shaw Croft car park and is played throughout the streets, jitties (alleyways), in the park pond and across fields with 3 miles separating the goals: Sturston Mill for the Up’ards and Clifton Mill for the Down’ards. Traditionally, the goals were scored by entering the wheelhouse and tapping the ball 3 times against the mill wheel. Since both mills are now demolished, purpose-built stone plinths were erected to represent the mill wheel. The ball is still tapped 3 times but now against the millstone in the centre of the plinth by a player standing in the river.
Not quite as lawless as its reputation, the game has only a few rules and play is not allowed in gardens, the Churchyard or the Town’s Memorial Gardens, but most of the shops still board up their windows. The game starts at 2pm each day, and re-starts if a goal is scored before 5pm with the game ending at 10pm or at the time of the ball being scored after 5pm. Although mainly a game of “hug”, where the ball is carried around in a large group of players, the ball is quite often in the air where it can be seen by spectators, and there are occasional breakaways. One the most popular origin theories suggests that the game started in Saxon times with the macabre notion that the 'ball' was originally a severed head of a defeated enemy, which was tossed into the waiting crowd, but there is no real evidence supporting this theory.
The game was last played in 2020. Hopefully, it will return in 2022.
Ashbourne’s Royal Shrovetide Football game is played between the Up’ards, traditionally those from north of the Henmore brook, and the Down’ards, from south of the river. The game starts at the turn-up plinth in the Shaw Croft car park and is played throughout the streets, jitties (alleyways), in the park pond and across fields with 3 miles separating the goals: Sturston Mill for the Up’ards and Clifton Mill for the Down’ards. Traditionally, the goals were scored by entering the wheelhouse and tapping the ball 3 times against the mill wheel. Since both mills are now demolished, purpose-built stone plinths were erected to represent the mill wheel. The ball is still tapped 3 times but now against the millstone in the centre of the plinth by a player standing in the river.
Not quite as lawless as its reputation, the game has only a few rules and play is not allowed in gardens, the Churchyard or the Town’s Memorial Gardens, but most of the shops still board up their windows. The game starts at 2pm each day, and re-starts if a goal is scored before 5pm with the game ending at 10pm or at the time of the ball being scored after 5pm. Although mainly a game of “hug”, where the ball is carried around in a large group of players, the ball is quite often in the air where it can be seen by spectators, and there are occasional breakaways. One the most popular origin theories suggests that the game started in Saxon times with the macabre notion that the 'ball' was originally a severed head of a defeated enemy, which was tossed into the waiting crowd, but there is no real evidence supporting this theory.
The game was last played in 2020. Hopefully, it will return in 2022.
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