On the Wednesday of Whitsun week the people of the Ross district held a large merry-making on top of a great barrow called Capel Tump. Fosbroke, in the notes printed in 1822, compared it to the sports held at the tomb of Anchises in Virgil.
Whit Wednesday on Capel Tump
52 days after Easter · Capel Tump, Herefordshire
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On the Wednesday in Whitsun week, there is a large meeting for festivity, held upon a great barrow, called Capel Tump.
From The Gentleman's Magazine Library, Manners and Customs, p. 25. Read the original
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