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Born on this day: Cyril Tawney (1930) and Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872)

• Mon 12 Oct All day

  Custom, day 2 of 2

  Stratford Mop Fair

  Sets off from Shakespeare Memorial Fountain, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

  • Fair or wakes
  • Michaelmas
  • Harvest and Hiring
  
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• Mon 12 Oct All day

  Custom

  Abingdon Runaway Fair

  Sets off from Market Place, Abingdon, Oxfordshire

  • Fair or wakes
  • Michaelmas
  • Harvest and Hiring
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• Mon 12 Oct 08:00 22:00

  Custom

  Pack Monday Fair

  Sets off from The Conduit, Sherborne, Dorset

  • Fair or wakes
  • Procession
  • Michaelmas
  
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• Mon 12 Oct 14:00 23:00

  Custom, day 3 of 8

  Hull Fair

  Walton Street Fairground, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire

  • Fair or wakes
  
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