The twentieth of April was the fair day at Tenbury in Worcestershire. It was believed in that county that the cuckoo was never heard before Tenbury fair day, nor after Pershore fair day, 26 June, so the fair marked the bird’s coming. Chambers took the belief from Notes and Queries.
Tenbury fair and the cuckoo
20 April · Tenbury, Worcestershire
Lore and belief
you never hear the cuckoo till Tenbury fair-day, or after Pershore fair-day
From Chambers's Book of Days, vol. 1, p. 529. Read the original
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