Barwick-In-Elmet Maypole Trust
About Barwick-In-Elmet Maypole Trust
Barwick-in-Elmet - home to Britain's tallest traditional maypole!
Barwick-In-Elmet Maypole Trust Description
Barwick-in-Elmet is home to Britain's tallest traditional maypole. At nearly 90 feet, it's a proud focal point in the centre of the village.
For centuries, the maypole has been lowered every three years at Easter, for repairs and re-painting, before being raised again in May, accompanied by traditional maypole dancing by local school children, the crowning of a Maypole Queen and a procession through the village.
Barwick Maypole Trust are endeavouring to maintain this great Yorkshire tradition, although the ever present spectre of 'Health & Safety', along with increasing insurance costs, mean this isn't the easiest of tasks.
You can support us by attending our annual Beer Festival, or our triennial Maypole Festival (the next one being in 2017).
We always need volunteers too, so if you think you can help, please get in touch!
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With just a year to go before we lower the maypole for repairs and painting, it's time to turn our attention to the maypole garlands. The four garlands which hang half-way up the pole are a really important part of our village tradition. Each one has over 1,500 hand-sewn rosettes.
And that's where you come in (we hope).
We need volunteers - old and new, young and old, ladies and gents - to help in sewing rosettes for the garlands. You only need basic sewing skills, and we provide instructions and all the required fabric. There are thousands to make, but many hands really do make light work! So please get in touch to offer your help. Hopefully we can have a small army busily sewing rosettes across the village. Message us here on Facebook, or email maypole@vipond.plus.com. Thank you in advance!!!
We are delighted to announce that the utterly fabulous Harrogate Band will be joining us once again at the Maypole Festival 2020. They'll be leading the procession through the village and performing throughout the afternoon. Listen out for their rendition of "Barwick Green" (better known as the theme to "The Archers").
Happy New Year's Eve Maypole Fans! If you're celebrating in the village tonight, try to make time to come down to the maypole at midnight. It's a grand old tradition that some years gets forgotten. There really is no better way to see the New Year in. This is back in 2016. Come on down tonight if you're about.
A damp but well-attended act of remembrance at The Cross this morning. And the unveiling of the village's Tommy silhouette.
CONGRATULATIONS TO NELLIE'S TREE IN PARLINGTON UK TREE OF THE YEAR 2018
A fantastic Beer Festival last Saturday. Great beers, fab music, lovely people. Thank you so much for supporting us. And thanks also to all who put in such a huge amount of time and effort into making the festival a success. See you all next year!
Barwick-in-Elmet Beer Festival Today at 12pm
The 10th Barwick-in-Elmet Beer Festival - our biggest yet - kicks off tomorrow at 12pm.
Beer, cider, gin, Prosecco, pies, live music, all in aid of our marvellous maypole. Everyone welcome! Please come along, support a great Yorkshire tradition, and have a fabulous day out. See you there!
The 10th Barwick-in-Elmet Beer Festival - our biggest yet - kicks off tomorrow at 12pm.
Beer, cider, gin, Prosecco, pies, live music, all in aid of our marvellous maypole. Everyone welcome! Please come along, support a great Yorkshire tradition, and have a fabulous day out. See you there!
Wilson's pies will once again be on offer at Barwick Beer Festival. Yorkshire Small Pork Pie Champions. Winners of the Old Pork Pie Appreciation Society Annual Competition. They also go down very nicely with a pint of Yorkshire ale.
Featured here with Yorkshire Caviar (a.k.a. mushy peas) and obligatory mint sauce. They'll sell like hot pies (so to speak), so get there early.
Barwick Village Hall, Saturday 15th September, from 12pm.
... Barwick Beer Festival 2018
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Good afternoon, Maypole Fans! Only 3 days to our biggest ever Beer Festival!! PLEASE help us out by SHARING this post with all your lovely friends.
Beer, cider, Prosecco, gin, Wilson's pork pies, and FIVE live music acts. This one is not to be missed. There are over 1,500 smashing Maypole Fans following this page - let's see if we can get all of you to SHARE this post. Thank you so much!!
Only four days to go until our biggest Beer Festival yet. And we're hoping to welcome revellers from all across the area. Here's a bit of info to that might help...
Barwick-in-Elmet is on two main bus routes. From Leeds, Harehills and Crossgates, or from Aberford use the No. 64 bus:
https://www.wymetro.com/buses/timetables/ 64
... From Wakefield and Garforth, or Wetherby and Boston Spa, use the No. 174 bus:
https://www.arrivabus.co.uk/…/173-174-1 75---wakefield-to-…/…
The Village Hall is on Chapel Lane, LS15 4EL. And once the beer has run out, don't forget we've got three great village pubs if you want to extend your day out!
Barwick Beer Festival 2018
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Barwick-in-Elmet, home to the tallest traditional maypole in Britain. It costs literally thousands of pounds to maintain this great Yorkshire tradition. And our fabulous BEER FESTIVAL is our most important fund-raiser. So join us on Saturday for great beers, ciders, Prosecco, gin, food and live music, and help to support our maypole!
Barwick Beer Festival 2018
Barwick Beer Festival Music Line Up.
Great beer needs great music and we have that lined up for next weekend at the Barwick Beer Festival 2018. Join us from 12pm on 15th of September, you won't want to miss a minute of this line up.