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Community Pageant Concludes Dartmoor Tors Festival
Around 50 people joined a new community pageant entitled ‘Gudula’s Gathering’ over the weekend, to perform a well dressing and celebrate May Day, the start of summer. It took place in Ashburton on Sunday the 3rd of May at 4pm, as the closing event of the Dartmoor Tors Festival, which was attended by around 1,500 people, who…
Read MoreAncient Holy Well Forms Centrepiece for New Dartmoor Community Pageant
St Gudula’s Well in Ashburton, an ancient holy well, will be the focus of a new community ritual honouring water as the source of all life, and celebrating the start of summer. ‘Gudula’s Gathering’ has been conceived by events curator and writer Kirsteen McNish, and Helen Bruce of the Dartmoor Preservation Association, as the closing…
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