Widecombe Fair is an annual fair in England, held in the Dartmoor village of Widecombe-in-the-Moor on the second Tuesday of September. It is well known...
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"Widecombe Fair", also called "Tom Pearce" (sometimes spelt "Tam Pierce"), is a Devon folk song about a man called Tom Pearce, whose horse dies after someone...
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the popular song "Widecombe Fair". The name is thought to derive from 'Withy-combe' which means Willow Valley. According to Widecombe's official website...
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Widecombe Fair is a 1928 British silent comedy drama film directed by Norman Walker and starring William Freshman, Marguerite Allan, Moore Marriott and...
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number of people in a list. The phrase comes from a Devon folk song, "Widecombe Fair", collected around 1890 by Sabine Baring-Gould. Its chorus ends with...
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1964. Both series included the character Jan Stewer (a character from Widecombe Fair) who recounted his experiences of the modern world in Devon dialect...
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Trythall), is thought by some to be an older traditional song than "Widecombe Fair" and is still sung. There is a suggestion that the song was known in...
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Gloucestershire Wickham Horse Fair, Wickham, Hampshire Widecombe Fair, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Devon Valkenburg horse fair, 1618 'Horse Fair on Bruntsfield Links...
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several other songs including "Diddycombe Fair" – a spoof of the well-known West Country song "Widecombe Fair". On stage the Diddy Men are normally played...
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Rambling Syd. "The Terrible Tale of the Somerset Nog" (to the tune of "Widecombe Fair") "D'ye Ken Jim Pubes" (to the tune of "D'ye Ken John Peel") "Green...
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