Date: 16 Feb 10 (15:00) - 16 Feb 10 (17:30)
Location: Atherstone - Long Street
Cost: FREE
The Atherstone Ball Game is an ancient Shrove Tuesday tradition in which the people of this normally sleepy rural North Warwickshire Town awaken and literally brawl over a large ball up and down the towns small ancient streets.
Shops are boarded up, local schools are closed and towns people of Atherstone gather in the main street at 3pm for the beginning of this 800 year old Shrove Tuesday tradition.
There is only one rule, and that rule is the ball can not be taken outside the town. Anything and everything else goes. The winner in this no holds barred contest is the person holding onto the ball at 5pm.