Traditions of York
4 traditions tied to York.
🇬🇧 United KingdomLong sword dance
A Yorkshire winter sword dance kept by village teams at Christmas and Plough MondayPerformance
🇬🇧 London, United KingdomRoyal Maundy
A Church of England service where the monarch gives silver Maundy coins to older peopleSpiritual
🇬🇧 York, United KingdomYorkshire Day
A yearly civic observance on 1 August to honour the historic county of Yorkshire and its people.Festival
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 1 moreCorpse road
Historical paths used to carry the dead to parish burial grounds across Britain and Ireland.Rite of passage
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Yorkshire Day: Buttons0603, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Long sword dance: donald judge, CC BY 2.0, source
- Royal Maundy: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Corpse road: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0, source