Bottle Kicking

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This time in two weeks there will be Bottle Kickers getting ready to climb the Buttercross….. who will have the bragging rights this year… @hfmnews @bbcemt @BBCLeicester

@Bricktop_NAFO Every Easter Monday, Leicestershire hosts the Hallaton Bottle Kicking. It’s a contest between two local villages: Hallaton vs. Medbourne It’s been officially documented for about 230+ years, but locals believe it has been going on for 2 millennia youtu.be/6w02m7hJ4D8?si…

Only weeks to go until the annual #bottlekicking event! We are fundraising for the event - donate and share if you can! gofund.me/65b0c07ff @hfmnews @HarbMail @bbcmtd @muddynorleicrut @RutStamSound

@RhiaMorrigan @3_monk @AmeliajakSolana @bill019_brown It’s always worth a visit to experience the event and see it with your own eyes!

@3_monk @AmeliajakSolana @bill019_brown Oh wouldn't that be brilliant? I grew up in Leicester, we used to go to the Hallaton Bottle Kicking ( look it up!) when I was younger - mad English Easter shenanigans! I ended up with a dislocated jaw one year 🤣🤣🤣 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle-ki…

Oh, true!

Join the most prominent English folklore festivity, explicitly celebrating hares and a medieval brutal rustic Bottle-Kicking conflict played out once a year in the rolling Leicestershire countryside. #EnglishTraditions #FolkLore martinurch.substack.com/p/hallaton-hare

@olly_quinn @bottle_kicking youtube.com/watch?v=PlZJLn…

Hallaton Bottle Kicking 2025 youtu.be/PlZJLn8_VJg?si… @bottle_kicking

Legend has it that bottle kicking is the game which inspired rugby...and it’s taking place tomorrow in Hallaton! The historic annual Hallaton Bottle Kicking is an Easter tradition like no other, as the villages of Hallaton and Medbourne battle it out to get three barrels know as bottles from the starting field to their own village by any means possible. Victory last year went to Hallaton, who will take this year’s crown? 🏆

Great win for #medbourne ahead of @bottle_kicking with the kids, men’s and ladies team each winning 🏆

Medbourne’s @bottle_kicking parade this morning

@jjgiddens @Alamy_Editorial @PA @HarbMail Amazing shots as always Joe!!!!

Hallaton and Medbourne battle for the 'bottle', an old field barrel filled with beer, during the annual game of bottle-kicking in Leicestershire. Played between the neighbouring villages, the aim is to bring the 'bottle' across a boundary stream in their respective village

Leicestershire villages battle it out at annual ‘bottle-kicking’ contest. #EasterMonday standard.co.uk/news/uk/leices…

Two villages in Leicestershire have competed against each other in an annual sporting tradition known as “bottle kicking” ✍️: @ellie__crabbe independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Two UK villages compete in annual bottle kicking contest rte.ie/news/newslens/…

Villages go to war in annual 'bottle kicking' battle as hundreds turn out for Easter Monday tradition where locals 'fight to move barrels to streams' dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Rough and tumble bottle kicking event returns bbc.in/4jJzW8N

The Hallaton Bottle Kicking dates back 2,000 years: harboroughfm.co.uk/ancient-easter…

We are lucky that we still have these traditions that never change… check out footage from 1961! @BFI @HistoricEngland @hfmnews @bbcmtd player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watc…