Skip to main content
CareerApp

Hobby · Sports and Athletics

Sedgefield Ball Game

The Sedgefield Ball Game is a traditional annual street football and handball event held in the village of Sedgefield, County Durham, England, typically on Shrove Tuesday (Ball Day). Players compete to carry or throw a leather ball through the town and ultimately into a nearby stream, in a rough, largely rule-free contest reminiscent of medieval mob football. It is one of several surviving English Shrovetide ball games that trace a folk tradition dating back centuries.

People into Sedgefield Ball Game

No one has added this yet. Add it to your profile and you’ll be the first.

More in Sports and Athletics

Other hobbies filed under sports and athletics.

Atherstone Ball GameDownside Ball GameStoop BallField GameSandlot BallTape Ball CricketCycle BallIndian BallWall GameKirkwall Ba' GamePaddle BallFifteen-Ball Pool
Browse every sports and athletics hobby

Turn on analytics and we load Google Analytics: Google gets the pages you open and what you do here — searches, jobs you view, jobs you apply to — and sets its own cookies. Leave it off and the only cookies we set are your login, your theme, and this answer. Accept All also records a yes to advertising, which nothing uses yet. Privacy Policy.