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Country diary: One of Britain’s oldest surviving traditions – and it’s all over in four minutes | Doc Rowe
Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire: It takes place in the dark, and this year there’s misty rain to contend with, but the wroth silver ceremony has endured for centuries Before sunrise on 11 November, while most people are still sleeping, representatives of 25 Warwickshire parishes gather on Knightlow Hill to observe one of Britain’s oldest surviving customs. The wroth silver ceremony is at least 850 years old, first…