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 St Oswald, Grasmere
Grasmere: Rushbearing 1893
locality:-   Grasmere
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rushbearing
coordinates:-   NY336075
1Km square:-   NY3307
10Km square:-   NY30

evidence:-   old photograph:- Heywood 1897
source data:-   Print, halftone photograph, rushbearing, Grasmere, Westmorland, 1893, by E Hermann Baldry, Grasmere, published by John Heywood, Deansgate and Ridgefield, Manchester, Lancashire and 29-30 Shoe Lane, London, about 1897.
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HW0203.jpg
On p.55 of The Rushbearing. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1489.3
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hearsay:-  
Rushbearing takes/took place every year on the 'Saturday within the Octave of St Oswald's Day' which is 5 August.
BUT since 2003 it has been moved to the end of the school term and is now on the penultimate Saturday in July.

photograph
BSI71.jpg  Rushbearing, 1893.
 

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