It begins in the morning on the village green and passes to Blithfield Hall, returning to the village in the early afternoon with the dancers then making their way around the pubs and houses, eventually finishing with a service of Compline at the church.
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In 1227, a weekly market was confirmed by Royal Charter at the site of the Butter Cross (recorded in 1339, the present structure said by Pevsner to date from the 17th century), which survives to the present.
The daughter of Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale, Maitland was educated at St. Mary and St. Anne's School, Abbots Bromley (today the Abbots Bromley School for Girls) and the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in London.
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At the age of 47 he became a full-time writer, and he and his wife Jess purchased a derelict folly-styled cottage and 90 acres (360,000 m²) of neglected ancient woodland in Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire, a remnant of the Needwood Forest.