Maypole
Nun Monkton has had a maypole at least since the 1790s. A Norwegian pine maypole was erected in 1871 by the village squire of the time Isaac Crawhall. Constant work is needed to preserve a maypole and in the 1920s the pole had to be shortened and re-erected. A similar operation was carried out by the British Army in 1975. But in March 2004, Isaac Crawhall's 78-foot (24 m) high green-and-white striped maypole finally snapped and fell down in a gale. The village has now replaced the maypole with a 88-foot (27 m) pole, reportedly the tallest in England, though unlike its predecessor it is a two-piece construction.
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