The Green Man
of the North

ASTBURY, Cheshire.
A (Cheshire..) cat with a leafy moustache can be seen as a 15th century roof boss in St Mary's church.

Cheshire also gave us the Green Knight...
"Men gaped for the giant grim
Was coloured a gorgeous green
And garments of green girt the fellow about..
And verily his vesture was all a vivid Green"
(Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 14th century)

BARWICK IN ELMET, West Yorkshire.
(top right, by Clifford Harper).
is said to have the tallest Maypole - over 80 feet. It is raised anew every three years on Easter Monday (From the time of the Restoration for over 50 years a maypole of 134 feet stood in the Strand in LONDON).

BROUGH, Westmorland.
On Twelfth Night, flaming torches were tied to holly branches and carried among cheering crowds until the fragments could be taken off by the throng around the village inns.

CASTLETON, Derbyshire.
Every 29th May the Garland King bedecked all over with flowers rides beside his Lady through the town.

CROSTHWAITE, Westmorland.
St Kentigern Church has a Green Man on the 14th century font.

WHALLEY, Lancashire (top left, by Anne Bowes)
A rude fellow can be seen on a canopy in the choir stalls...

YORK
York Cathedral celebrated its revival after the fire with new stained glass windows which includes a Green Man