Only in Cornwall, Great Britain,

will you find Hurling to Country

where Fair Play is 'andsome play

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Cornish ancient pagan game Hurling to Country

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Life of Author Daphne DuMaurier

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Cornish language introduction

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Cornish pilot gig racing

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Hurling to Country

Take a Silver Hurling Ball weighing nearly

a pound, a 25-square mile playing field,

few rules, no referee, an entire community...

NOW you have yourself an ancient pagan game!

Click on images for Cornish video downloads...

1998 Hurling Champion Philip Ellery with Silver Hurling Ball

"... the St. Columb Major hurling is the most intensive look I have seen,

and conveyed the rough and tumble very well!"

Terry Knight

Principal Library Officer

Cornish Studies

Redruth

In a four hour contest, it's Town against Country

as players scramble for the Silver Hurling Ball

at St. Columb Major, then to run cross country

to parish boundaries

Daphne DuMaurier wrote dozens of books on Cornwall. Son Kits Browning recalls her life

A primer on Cornish language with teachers Jane Ninnis and Pol Hodge

17th Century pilot gigs assisted ship captains. Modern racing is for sport

55 minutes

*Recommended viewing

 

 

 

Tell a Cornish Cousin about

Hurling to Country

 

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