TracyWalker commented Empty casket is led through fields on annual Brinsley Coffin Walk

This was not your standard "funeral". There were pallbearers, "mourners" and even a funeral director. But the coffin was empty. If you were in Brinsley on Saturday you might have witnessed a walking cortege of people carrying a wooden coffin across Church Lane, from nearby St James The Great Church. It was part of a 10-year-old ritual called the Brinsley Coffin Walk, which commemorates a time pre-1861, when the village did not have a parish church. It meant...