All boarded up. Ashbourne town centre shop windows are boarded up for the start for the Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Football match which takes place on Shrove Tuesday & Ash Wednesday every year. Ye Olde & Ancient Medieval hugball game is the forerunner to football dating from 1683 when Charles Cotton's poem Burlesque upon the Great Frost, cousin of Aston Cockayne Baronet of Ashbourne, Credit: Doug Blane/Alamy Live News
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Doug Blane / Peak District Pictures / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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3888 x 5184 px | 32.9 x 43.9 cm | 13 x 17.3 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
12 February 2018Location:
Ashbourne, UKMore information:
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All boarded up. Ashbourne town centre shop windows are boarded up for the start for the Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Football match which takes place on Shrove Tuesday & Ash Wednesday every year. Ye Olde & Ancient Medieval hugball game is the forerunner to football dating from 1683 when Charles Cotton's poem Burlesque upon the Great Frost, cousin of Aston Cockayne Baronet of Ashbourne, DerbyshirePreparations start for the Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Football match which takes place on Shrove Tuesday & Ash Wednesday every year. Ye Olde & Ancient Medieval hugball game is the forerunner to football dating from 1683 when Charles Cotton's poem Burlesque upon the Great Frost, cousin of Aston Cockayne Baronet of Ashbourne, Derbyshire.