Traditions

Foreword

The content of these pages was never intended to be a treatise on Morris dancing, but a guide as to the finer points for members of the audience and supporters who would like to understand a little more about what is going on.

For details of the dances, the interested reader should refer to a more comprehensive book, such as Lionel Bacon's A Handbook of Morris Dancing (The Morris Ring, 1974), the source texts themselves, or better still ...... join a Morris Team

Traditions We Dance

Tradition	Location/Origins
Adderbury	North of Oxford and x miles South of Banbury on A423
Bampton	West of Oxford; A40 to Witney and then take A4095
Bledington	6 miles SW of Stow-on-the-Wold along A436; turnoff at B4450
Ducklington	West of Oxford; A40 to Whitney and A415 to village turnoff
Fieldtown	(Leafield) NW of Witney
Headington	3 miles East of Oxford near junction of A40 with A418
Lichfield	Non-Cotswold
Stanton Harcourt*	10 miles West of Oxford along A420 to junction of B4044 with B4449
*This tradition is currently under the care of The Side.