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Beating the Bounds

May 1932

Mexborough and Swinton Times, May 13th 1932

The ancient Ascensiontide custom of beating the bounds of the parish, carried out last Thursday by boys of Brampton school.

The ceremony includes the bumping three times on the boundary wall of a-not-necessarily-willing victim: a mild relic of the old sacrificial element of religion?