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Dorton Dons
Dorton Dons was a tug-of-war team in the 1960s and 1970s. Managed and coached by Don Claridge of Dorton in Buckinghamshire, they won regional and national championships. Whilst the team was based and trained in Dorton, it drew many of the team from local villages such as Brill Brill may refer to: Places * Brielle (sometimes "Den Briel"), a town in the western Netherlands * Brill, Buckinghamshire, a village in England * Brill, Cornwall, a small village to the west of Constantine, Cornwall, UK * Brill, Wisconsin, an uni ..., Ludgershall and Oakley. One training method utilised was looping the rope over a tree's branch and pulling a 45-gallon drum of concrete to the top. During the late 70's a revival of the Dorton Dons was attempted. John Faulkner and Raymond Pentony, Don Driver with Tony Bolton and Bill Tipping would often be seen pulling the 45 gallon drum high into the air. The drum itself still sits in the river below the tree branch. Sport in Buckinghamshire {{Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorton Dons
Dorton Dons was a tug-of-war team in the 1960s and 1970s. Managed and coached by Don Claridge of Dorton in Buckinghamshire, they won regional and national championships. Whilst the team was based and trained in Dorton, it drew many of the team from local villages such as Brill Brill may refer to: Places * Brielle (sometimes "Den Briel"), a town in the western Netherlands * Brill, Buckinghamshire, a village in England * Brill, Cornwall, a small village to the west of Constantine, Cornwall, UK * Brill, Wisconsin, an uni ..., Ludgershall and Oakley. One training method utilised was looping the rope over a tree's branch and pulling a 45-gallon drum of concrete to the top. During the late 70's a revival of the Dorton Dons was attempted. John Faulkner and Raymond Pentony, Don Driver with Tony Bolton and Bill Tipping would often be seen pulling the 45 gallon drum high into the air. The drum itself still sits in the river below the tree branch. Sport in Buckinghamshire {{Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tug-of-war
Tug of war (also known as tug o' war, tug war, rope war, rope pulling, or tugging war) is a sport that pits two teams against each other in a test of strength: teams pull on opposite ends of a rope, with the goal being to bring the rope a certain distance in one direction against the force of the opposing team's pull. Terminology The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' says that the phrase "tug of war" originally meant "the decisive contest; the real struggle or tussle; a severe contest for supremacy". Only in the 19th century was it used as a term for an athletic contest between two teams who haul at the opposite ends of a rope. Prior to that, ''French and English'' was the commonly used name for the game in the English-speaking world. Origin The origins of tug of war are uncertain, but this sport was practised in Cambodia, ancient Egypt, Greece, India and China. According to a Tang dynasty book, ''The Notes of Feng'', tug of war, under the name "hook pulling" (牽鉤), was used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorton
Dorton (or Dourton) is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire. It is in the western part of the county, about north of the Oxfordshire market town of Thame. Manor The village toponym is derived from the Old English for "farm at a narrow pass". The Domesday Book of 1086 records it as ''Dortone'', and in the 13th century it was ''Durtone''. Before the Norman conquest of England Alric, son of Goding, a thegn of Edward the Confessor, held the manor of Dorton. However, the Domesday Book records that by 1086 the Norman baron Walter Giffard held it. Dorton House is a Grade I listed Jacobean mansion to the south of the village. It is now a preparatory school, Ashfold School. Parish church The Church of England parish church of Saint John the Evangelist was originally a chapel of ease to nearby Chilton. St. John's has been a parish in its own right since at least 1590. The nave and chancel of the church building may be 12th century, as is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire (), abbreviated Bucks, is a ceremonial county in South East England that borders Greater London to the south-east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-east and Hertfordshire to the east. Buckinghamshire is one of the Home Counties, the counties of England that surround Greater London. Towns such as High Wycombe, Amersham, Chesham and the Chalfonts in the east and southeast of the county are parts of the London commuter belt, forming some of the most densely populated parts of the county, with some even being served by the London Underground. Development in this region is restricted by the Metropolitan Green Belt. The county's largest settlement and only city is Milton Keynes in the northeast, which with the surrounding area is administered by Milton Keynes City Council as a unitary authority separately to the rest of Buckinghamshire. The remainder of the county is administered by Buck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brill, Buckinghamshire
Brill is a village and civil parish in west Buckinghamshire, England, close to the border with Oxfordshire. It is about north-west of Long Crendon and south-east of Bicester. At the 2011 Census, the population of the civil parish was 1,141. Brill has a royal charter to hold a weekly market, but has not done so for many years. Toponymy Brill's name is tautological, being a combination of Brythonic and Anglo Saxon words for 'hill' (Brythonic ''breg'' and Anglo Saxon ''hyll''). The name attracted the attention of J. R. R. Tolkien, who based the Middle-earth village of Bree upon it."Bree ... asbased on Brill ... a place which he knew well": Christopher Tolkien (1988), ''The Return of the Shadow'' (being vol.VI of ''The History of Middle-earth''), ch. 7, p. 131, note 6, Manor The manor of Brill was the administration centre for the royal hunting Forest of Bernwood and was for a long time a property of the Crown. King Edward the Confessor had a palace here. There is evidenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludgershall, Buckinghamshire
Ludgershall is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of Buckinghamshire, England. It is near the boundary with Oxfordshire, about south-east of Bicester and west of Waddesdon. Toponym The toponym is said to be derived from the Old English for ''"nook with a trapping spear"'' but this is disputed. It occurs in more than one place in England (see Ludgershall (other)). The Domesday Book of 1086 records the village as ''Litlegarsele''. The place spelt at ''Lotegarshale'', seen in 1381, may refer to the Buckinghamshire village, or the one in Wiltshire. History Henry II granted land in the parish to the priory of Santingfeld in Picardy, France. It is possible that a hospital was founded on this land, although it is uncertain. In the reign of Henry VI, when all alien church possessions were seized by the Crown, this land was given to King's College, Cambridge. The theologian John Wyclif was vicar of Ludgershall 1368–74. St Mary the Virgin Church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oakley, Buckinghamshire
Oakley is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. It has an area of and includes about 400 households. The 2011 Census recorded the population as 1,007. At one time it was thought Oakley held a rare (and possibly unique) double distinction, in that a Victoria Cross recipient, Edward Brooks, and a Medal of Honor recipient, James J. Pym, were both born in the village. However, the latter, a namesake of a contemporary James Pym from Oakley, has been found to be from Garsington, a village away in Oxfordshire. In 1963 Oakley was centre of national and international news, when Leatherslade Farm, near Oakley, was used as a hideout by the criminal gang involved in the Great Train Robbery. Geography The parish is in the west of Buckinghamshire, adjoining the boundary with Oxfordshire. It is roughly diamond shaped, extending a maximum east to west and south to north. Oakley parish is bounded to the north-west by Boarstall parish, north-east by Brill, east by Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
