Tickets Alert: Attend the Quadrennial Dunmow Flitch Trials
Every fourth year, for hundreds of years, a "trial" has taken place to judge if married couples are happy, and if they are, they can claim a huge slab of bacon.
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Tickets Alert: Attend the Quadrennial Dunmow Flitch Trials
Every fourth year, for hundreds of years, a "trial" has taken place to judge if married couples are happy, and if they are, they can claim a huge slab of bacon.
A 900-year-old tradition: Dunmow Flitch Trials to allow same-sex couples to take home the bacon
Fancy doing something odd? Well, if you're a married couple who can prove that you're very happily married, you could carry off a massive amount of bacon.
A summer ramble along the disused Bishop’s Stortford to Braintree railway line
A disused railway running through Essex that closed 50 years ago is now a country walk that offers some lovely views, detours and some bacon.
The ancient Dunmow Flitch Trials took place last weekend
Last Saturday, a huge piece of bacon was paraded through an Essex town as an ancient ceremony took place once again. This was the Dunmow Flitch Trials.
The Dunmow Flitch Trial takes place in July
Every 4th year, for the past umpteen centuries, a special trial takes place just outside London, and tickets to attend are now on sale.
Tickets Alert: Attend the Dunmow Flitch Trials
Every 4th year, for the past umpteen centuries, a special trial takes place just outside London, and tickets to attend are now on sale.
Dunmow delayed – no flitches of bacon for 2020
They tried pushing it back to later in the year, but the virus has struck at the heart of olde England and the Dunmow Flitch Trials have been delayed by a year.
Tickets Alert: Attend the Dunmow Flitch Trials
Every 4th year, for the past umpteen centuries, a special trial takes place just outside London, and tickets to attend are now on sale.
Are you a married couple worthy of a flitch of bacon?
An ancient trial will soon take place in Dunmow, and if you can prove to the court to be a happily married couple, then the court will award you an entire flitch of bacon.
Ticket Alert – The Dunmow Flitch of Bacon Trials
Since at least the 12th century, every few years, a number of married couples are tried by jury to prove that they are happily married. And the trials are open the public to attend.