"Churdling the spurdle" is an ancient English tradition in Somerset. A man in a milk smock has to run round the village.

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"Churdling the spurdle" is an ancient English tradition in Somerset. A man in a milk smock has to run a measured mile round his village with a pig's bladder on his head every year. Picture taken in the 1980s.

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Location: Somerset England Britain UK
Photo credit: © Roger Bamber / Alamy / Afripics
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