I must remember to look up what Ronald Hutton says about Common Riding - the Northumberland counterpart is Riding the Bounds, principally at Berwick, though it does happen elsewhere, often as a modern invention (such as the Riding the Bounds of the Civil Parish of Ponteland, which would take place in the 1980s).
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Date: 2009-01-26 04:13 pm (UTC)