A crowd of people on Lye Hill engaged in the Beating the Bounds ceremony, which reinforces the boundary of a parish. The boundary is walked and the boundary markers are beaten with sticks to cries of 'Mark, Mark, Mark!'.

Date:
1860 - 1922
Location:
Cowley, Oxfordshire, Oxford, Oxfordshire
Reference:
HT00137
Type:
Photograph (Inkjet Print)
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This is part of the Series: HWT01/01 Glass Plate Negatives And Inkjet Prints; within the Collection: HWT01 Henry W Taunt Collection

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Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Taunt, Henry William

Keywords

Ceremony, People, Custom And Tradition