Scorton Feast is an annual four-day fair held on the raised village green at Scorton, North Yorkshire, England. Scorton Feast was first held in AD 1257, It celebrated its 750th anniversary in 2006. The Feast is usually celebrated around August the 15th, which is the Festival of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The attractions available at Scorton Feast include a funfair, flower and produce shows, children's sports day and garden party, children's pet show, Adult sports day, gymkhana and harness racing, 5 a-side football tournament, cricket matches for men's and women's teams, a cycle race, a graffiti competition and a Sunday Evening service on the village green.
Local folklore has it that when Scorton Feast ends the winter begins.
Famous quotes containing the word feast:
“The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas’ mysterious routes back to his native Guinea.
Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.”
—Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)