Let’s move to Ashbourne, Derbyshire: ‘A delightful town’

The two-day Royal Shrovetide football match is its annual blood-lettingWhat’s going for it? I am not a football kind of chap. I barely know my Nobby Stiles from my Cristiano Ronaldo. But, if I were, this is the kind of footy I’d like to play. Ashbourne’s Royal Shrovetide match has been played every Shrove Tuesday for hundreds of years, and employs lots of elbows and a fair amount of handball, bunting, beer and clambering through the river. The whole town plays: the Up’ard