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	Banbury, Oxfordshire :: BanburyTown.co.uk
		The original cross was pulled down at the end of the 16th century.
		The present cross was erected in 1859 to celebrate the wedding of the then Princess Royal to Prince Frederick of Prussia.
		The opening of the Oxford Canal in 1790 connecting Banbury with the Midlands bought new industries and growth which continued with the arrival of the railways.
	www.banburytown.co.uk (298 words)

	Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross is a nursery rhyme connected with the English town Banbury.
		The cross of the title was destroyed by Puritans in 1602 but was replaced in 1858.
		The "cock horse" is usually identified as a hobby-horse.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Ride-a-cock-horse-to-Banbury-Cross.htm (191 words)

	A History of Banbury and the Banbury Cross explained.......... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The outcome of their attacks is likely to have benefitted Banbury by aiding the development of the town centre.
		It was a large, covered cross, made of stone with a slate roof so that the butchers and bakers who had their market stalls there could keep dry in wet weather.
		Near the current Banbury Cross stands the domed parish church of St. Mary's, which was built between 1793 and 1827 to replace the previous church which burnt down in 1792.
	www.banbury-cross.co.uk /banhistory.htm (1253 words)

	Banbury Cross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The traditional rhyme, 'Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross', for chronological reasons must have referred to Banbury's ancient High or Market Cross demolished by the puritans on 26th July 1600.
		Although Banbury was without a cross for over 250 years, the memory sustained no doubt by the rhyme remained with the local population throughout that period.
		It became a physical fact again in 1859 when the corporation of Banbury erected a new cross in decorated gothic form at the most prominent road junction in Banbury - in celebration of the marriage of Queen Victoria's eldest daughter.
	www.banbury.gov.uk /Banburycross.htm (210 words)

	Banbury Cross
		Banbury was built at the junction of two ancient roads the Salt Way, still used as a bridle path and Banbury Lane, part of the Jurassic Way which ran from the Humber to the Avon.
		They would ride thrice round the intersection on a broom and sit down on the ground to wait for the vision of a dark woman on a white horse to gallop by coming from the east and going west.
		It has frequently been suggested that the rhyme is a reference to one of the horse goddesses and one article I read connected Rhiannon with morris dancing and suggests that she is indeed the 'fair lady'.
	www.kton.demon.co.uk /banbury.htm (1182 words)

	Banbury Tourist Information on AboutBritain.com
		Banbury, a historic and lively market town - famous for its nursery rhyme, 'Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross', the original cross was destroyed by the Puritans and was replaced by the present one in Victorian times.
		It is probable that the ride to the cross would have been part of a May morning ceremony.
		Banbury is also known for the famous Banbury Cake, first recorded in the 16th century.
	www.aboutbritain.com /towns/Banbury.asp (578 words)

	Broughton Castle, the home of Lord & Lady Saye and Sele (family name: Fiennes)
		But you won't have to ride a cockhorse to find us just outside Banbury – we are only 3 miles from the M40 and the railway station in Banbury.
		Banbury is on the M40, 23 miles north of Oxford.
		Enter Banbury and at Banbury Cross take the B4035 west signposted to Shipston on Stour then, after about two miles, turn right in Broughton village at the crossroads by the Saye and Sele Arms pub and follow the signposts to Broughton Castle.
	www.broughtoncastle.com /openingtimes.htm (384 words)

	Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross nursery rhyme lyrics with origins and history
		Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross nursery rhyme lyrics with origins and history
		Banbury was situated at the top of a steep hill and in order to help carriages up the steep incline a white cock horse (a large stallion) was made available to help with this task.
		Her visit was so important that the people of the town had decorated the cock horse with ribbons and bells and provided minstrels to accompany her - "she shall have music wherever she goes".
	www.famousquotes.me.uk /nursery_rhymes/ride_a_cock_horse.htm (236 words)

	Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross rhyme
		Banbury was situated at the top of a steep hill and in order to help carriages up the steep incline a white cock horse (a large stallion) was made available by the town's council to help with this task.
		The people of the town had decorated the cock horse with ribbons and bells and provided minstrels to accompany her - "she shall have music wherever she goes".
		The massive stone cross at Banbury was unfortunately later destroyed by anti - Catholics who opposed the notion of pilgrimages.
	www.rhymes.org.uk /ride_a_cock_horse.htm (272 words)

	The Banbury Cross in Banbury Oxfordshire
		The cross standing in Banbury today is not the one mentioned in the rhyme.
		Of the three, the High Cross and was regarded as one of the chief architectural features of the town at that time.
		The destruction of the High Cross was encouraged by William Knight of the town corporation.
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /buildings/english/banbury/banbury.htm (234 words)

	About Banbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The present cross was erected in 1859 to celebrate the wedding of the then Princess Royal to Prince Frederick of Prussia.
		The name Banbury may have been derived from 'Banna', a local Saxon dignitary who is said to have built his stockade here in the 500's.
		Today Banbury is an expanding market and industrial town experiencing growth as a direct benefit of its proximity to the completed M40 motorway linking London to Birmingham via Oxford.
	www.banburyrotaryclub.org.uk /html/about_banbury.html (340 words)

	VirtualTourist.com - alancollins's Homepage
		It is 52 feet 6 inches high to the top of its gilt cross and is now the focal point of interest in the town and the site of any public celebrations particularly by the youth of the town on New Year's Eve.
		Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross, to see a fine lady upon a white horse, rings on his fingers bells on her toes, she shall have music where ever she goes.
		Banbury now has a statue of a fine lady upon a white horse from the nursery rhyme.
	members.virtualtourist.com /m/64674 (315 words)

	Banbury Hobby Horse Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross, to see a fine lady upon a white horse.
		The festival began in June 2000, initially prompted by concerns that the town should be capitalising on the fame of Banbury Cross, and seeking to regenerate the Cross area as a new shopping centre opened by the canal.
		The festival is both a national celebration of hobby horse customs, and also a community event, with comic races, workshops, fancy dress and so on for local people.
	www.england-in-particular.info /banbury.html (605 words)

	horse cock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross rhyme
		Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse nursery rhyme poem with lyrics with origins and history...
		Queen chose to mount the cock horse and ride to the Banbury...
	www.animal-magazine-online.com /horse-cock (497 words)

	Eric Shackle's eBook - Shuttle Pirate
		Today Banbury is an expanding market and industrial town, with a population of 40,000.
		During medieval times two people riding on one horse, a knight in front, his lady on a pillion, was called riding a cock-horse.
		Another possible explanation relates to a spare horse that was stationed at the bottom of steep hills to assist in hauling coaches.
	www.bdb.co.za /shackle/articles/shuttle_pirate.htm (1432 words)

	Favorite Nursery Rhymes
		Bell horses, bell horses, what time of day?
		The cock’s on the housetop blowing his horn;
		THE DEATH AND BURIAL OF POOR COCK ROBIN...
	www.mothergoose.com /Rhymes/Azrhymes.htm (635 words)

	Large cocks - CJS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Cock mark: 60% sheets included a large water mark basedlooks like a spurting cock.
		According to tradition, the loser of a cock fight would be tossed in the pot with some leeks and barley 2 dried prunes Place the chicken in a large pot with three or four of the leeks, the bouquet garni and
		Whenthe hill a wheel broke and the Queen chose to mount the cock horse to reach the Banbury cross.
	www.cat-jewelry-superstore.com /dogs/beds/large/large-cocks.html (420 words)

	Moore 2 Life: Banbury Cross
		A 20 minute walk across town past the famous cross and a statue of the 'fine lady' on a horse.
		We were amused to see a small frog sitting there by the horses hoof.
		Resting at the Cross and admiring the rather fine statue of that horse.
	moore2life.blogspot.com /2005/05/banbury-cross.html (210 words)

	Ride a cock horse To Banbury Cross. What's that all about? in The AnswerBank: People & Places (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The current cross was built in Horsefair 1859 to mark the marriage of Queen Victoria's oldest child, Vicky (Princess Royal) to Prince Frederick of Prussia.
		In the Middle Ages there was: White Cross in West Bar; High Cross, or Market Cross, in Cornhill; and Bread Cross in Butchers Row.
		It was one of the carvings on the cross.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article1182.html (497 words)

	Ancestry.com - Ride a Cock-Horse to Banbury Cross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For those of you who are not familiar with this usage of the word cross, we are talking not about a cross on a church steeple, but about a market cross.
		English market towns may have a market cross as a focal point, usually near the main road or where roads cross.
		The Banbury Cross of the nursery rhyme was destroyed by Puritans in the seventeenth century.
	www.gale.ancestry.com /learn/library/article.aspx?article=9922 (963 words)

	Lets Go There - A guide to Banbury, Oxfordshire
		Famous for the nursery rhyme Ride A Cock Horse to Banbury Cross, Banbury is a pleasant town surrounded by ever increasing numbers of housing estates.
		The lady in question on the horse was thought to be a member of the Fiennes family, ancestors of the owner sof nearby Broughton Castle and you can still see the famous cross, which was destroyed in 1602 and re-built in 1858.
		Here you'll find a bewildering range of herbs and plants grown locally and for sale as well as a gift shop with original presents and a very pleasant bistro which uses herbs in many of their dishes.
	www.letsgothere.co.uk /lgtnet/locations/4-797-1-Banbury.aspx (323 words)

	HHO -Web Hosting Forums - Ride a Cock-Horse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		for a wagon), then seen as the horse to ride by the landed gentry as a symbol of power or wealth.
		Banbury is a town in oxfordshire in the south of england.
		As far as i know, paddy whack is from a very old tradition to 'whack' somebody for each year they have been alive on their birthday.
	www.hosthideout.com /printthread.php?t=720 (490 words)

	The nursery rhyme "Ride a cock-horse" and its origins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		She was known for making many horseback rides through the English countryside after 1697.
		There was indeed a big cross at Banbury but was destroyed in 1601 in a fit of Puritan zeal.
		The bells on her toes refers to the 15th century fashion of attaching bells to the end of the pointed toes of each shoe.
	nurseryrhymes.allinfoabout.com /ride_cock_horse.html (255 words)

	Wot??? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Home » Archives » December 2004 » Ride a cock-horse to banbury cross...
		Sunshine saw the horse and though it was lovely too.
		Yes, its a rocking horse - and we've already looked up how much they sell for - and we've definately already made a profit.
	www.swingdemon.com /blog/archives/00000079.htm (285 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The town is also famed for the Banbury cake, an oval "cake" of flaky pastry filled with mixed dried fruit, from which the free weekly newspaper Banbury Cake derived its odd name.
		The famous Banbury Cross sits in the middle of a traffic roundabout It was erected in 1859 to celebrate the wedding of Prince Frederick of Prussia, the original cross having been pulled down 250 years earlier.
		"For centuries Banbury, England has been known for its famous Banbury Cakes since 1638 which are sugared puff pastry filled with currants and dried fruit that nobody else wants to deal with," says Chip.
	www.foodiesite.com /articles/2001-06/banburycakes.jsp (1003 words)

	Playscript
		On July 1st 2000, as part of the town's Hobby Horse Festival, the destruction of Banbury's medieval crosses was commemorated with a short performance telling the story of this act of puritan vandalism.
		The performance took place in Banbury's market place outside the old Corn Exchange and next to a plaque, recently let into the ground to mark the site of the original high cross.
		And the west part of this street is a large area environed with meatly good building having a goodly cross with many degrees about it.
	www.kickback.btinternet.co.uk /History.and.Archaeology/Banbury/Faith/Playscript.html (638 words)

	hobby horse
		Bristol Hobby Horse Club is now taking a well-earned break.
		Banbury Hobby Horse Festival extends an open invitation to all hobby horses and
		by feet on the ground) was called a hobby horse or dandy charger.
	www.popularsites.com /hobby-horse.html (193 words)

	Stories written by Amber Gold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		She had long, golden blonde hair and big green eyes with long eye lashes fringing them.
		She was adorable and when she walked into Carl's hair salon for young girls he felt his cock twitch as he watched her walk to the desk with her mother.
		She stood close to her mother while she checked in and looked like she was a little reluctant to be in here.
	www.mrdouble.com /htm/authors/ambergold/rideacoc.htm (462 words)

	Horse
		At the beginning of the new millennium it was felt that time to reinstate these traditions; bring fun and splendour back into the life of the town hence on the first weekend of July 2000 Banbury's first Hobby Horse Festival and the first appearance of the fine lady on her white horse.
		The horse was made by sculptor Steve Rowley as part of a project involving local schools and funded by the Millennium Festival Awards for All Fund.
		As the popularity of these events began to wane the hobby horse operators and the morris dancers formed an unofficial alliance and perpetuated a practice which had become a useful way of raising a little extra income.
	www.kickback.btinternet.co.uk /Town.Horse/Town.Horse.html (594 words)

	WSFI Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Caldecott, Randolph, Ride A-Cock Horse to Banbury Cross and A Farmer Went Trotting Upon His Grey Mare, 1988.
		Ketchum, Barbara, They're in the Habit of Riding Sidesaddle, Sept. 1979.
		Marsh, Heidi, Riding Habits of the Era of the Hoop, 1987.
	www.sidesaddle.org /library.htm (10659 words)

	SCA Nursery Rhymes
		The story is that there were two pubs in Banbury, Buckinghamshire, England that sat across from the other.
		One was The Cock and the other The Bull They were embroiled in competition as to their horses for hire.
		They repeatedly would make greater and grander claims to win a sale.Thus ride a Cock horse is a children's rhyme that came from the competition.
	facstaff.uindy.edu /~dhamann/rhyme.html (856 words)

	~Antique Childs cup & saucer~ for sale - TradeMe.co.nz - New Zealand
		Cup has little red riding hood on front, Ride a cock horse to banbury cross on back, and two little lambs inside.
		The saucer has ride a cock horse to banbury cross and little jack horner sat in a corner.
		The saucer has been broken and glued at some stage, see photo.
	www.trademe.co.nz /nz/auction-21208300.htm (127 words)

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