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Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850 by Various
page 30 of 68 (44%)

_Bingley in Yorkshire._--In the town of Bingley, {312} in Yorkshire, the
custom of ringing the curfew existed in the year 1824. It may have been
discontinued since that year, but I do not know that it has.

It is also the custom at Blackburn, in Lancashire; and it was, if it is
not now, at Bakewell in Derbyshire.

H.J.


_Bromyard, Herefordshire._--The curfew is still rung at Bromyard,
Herefordshire, at nine P.M., from the 5th of November, until Christmas
Day; and the bell is afterwards tolled the number of the day of the
month. Why it is merely confined to within the above days, I could never
ascertain.

G.F.C.


_Waltham-on-the-Wolds._--The curfew is still rung at
Waltham-on-the-Wolds, Leicestershire, at five A.M., eight P.M. in
summer, and at six A.M., seven P.M. in winter; the bell also tolling the
day of the month.

R.J.S.


_Oxfordshire._--I see that NABOC's inquiry about the curfew is answered
at p. 175. by a reference to the _Journal of the British Archæological
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