Tolleshunt D'Arcy maypole

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In the middle of the road junction in Tolleshunt D'Arcy stands the village maypole, one of the few remaining original maypoles to be found. The bottom has been protected by a wooden cage.

Margery Allingham, the celebrated novellist, wrote about the maypole in her autobiographical history of the Second World War as seen from the village, The Oaken Heart. "The pole, which is only a pole, has a weathercock on top of it of it, and at its foot, where one waits for the bus, grow two may-trees, one red and one white, which the Old Doctors and Mrs Graves put there forty years ago.”

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Tolleshunt D'Arcy Maypole

Type:Curiosity

Opposite 17 North Street, Tolleshunt D'Arcy, CM9 8TF

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