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Liskeard Unlocked - Crying The Neck

Cattle Market Events Area, The Workshed, Cattle Market Car Park, Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14 6AB

  • 14 Sep 2024
  • In person
  • Pre-booking not required

This ancient pagan, but later Christianised, ceremony has been celebrated in Cornish farming communities for many centuries to give thanks at the end of Harvest time. Visitors can join in.

After a prayer and a reading the last cut of corn (the neck) is raised amid set shouts and responses, all in both the Cornish and English languages.

Visitors will be given the responses in both languages so they can join in as the neck is raised towards the North, East and South (never to the West as this could result in a poor Harvest the following year). Assisted by a local choir a rousing rendition of Trelawny will be sung to end the occasion, which is held by 40+ Old Cornwall Societies across the County.

Timings & Tours

Saturday 14 September:
1600

Location & directions

Cattle Market Events Area, The Workshed, Cattle Market Car Park, Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14 6AB

Directions:
In the covered events area in the Cattle Market Car Park, off Dean Street PL14 4BA
Contact on day:
Brian Oldham
Telephone number:
+447950113770

Booking information

Pre-booking requirement:
Pre-booking not required

Additional information

Est. tour duration:
0 hour(s) 30 minute(s)

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