Whitworth Rushcart 2024

Sunday 01 September 2024
Starting at 1pm - 4.30pm

Starting at Whitworth Museum, North Street, OL12 8RA
Proceeding to The Ashcroft
Market Street
Whitworth
OL12 8DP

Details:

The annual rushcart procession will leave from Whitworth Museum, North Street, Whitworth at 1.00pm.  Featuring numerous traditional morris dance troupes (including the famous Britannia Coconutters and the Whitworth Morris Men) and will travel up the main road, led by the Rushcart itself, arriving at the Ashcroft at approximately 1.20pm.

From 1.15pm until 4.30pm, the car park of The Ashcroft will be cordoned off for stalls, entertainments, and performances from the various morris dancing troupes including the Whitworth Rushcart Men and the Britannia Coconutters, plus the Whitworth Vale and Healey Youth Band.

St Bartholomew’s Church will be providing traditional hot food as well as Bombay Brew’s Mama Chilli’s food truck,and the Ashcroft bar will be open for liquid refreshments.  There will also be an Arts and Craft Fair, featuring a variety of artisan stalls in the Ashcroft main hall. There will also be rides, children's crafts and other entertainments.

All are welcome.

The Whitworth Rushcart is one of only four such celebrations which still take place in the UK, the others being in Sowerby Bridge, Littleborough and Saddleworth.  Whitworth’s cart is unique in that it is the only one in the UK to be covered in beautiful local heather that is in bloom at this time of year, collected by the Whitworth Rushcart Men from the moors above Darwen before the event; Rushcarts in the other areas are covered with rushes or tatters of cloth.

Entry fee: Free

Contact: Whitworth Town Council Office
01706 852018

http://www.whitworth.gov.uk/events/Annual_Rushcart_Celebrations

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