Every year on the Mayday Bank Holiday Monday, the whole village gathers around the Knoll to celebrate the rites of spring and dance around the maypole. The dancing is lead by the children from Sherington First School.
This is then traditionally followed by a race of some sort. In the last couple of years it has been a fun run from The Knoll down the High Street up to Bancroft to Sherington Nurseries, back down School Lane and Church Road to The Knoll.
This is then followed by the Yard of Ale competition. The "Yard" is a long tubular glass vessel with a bulbous end that can hold 2½ pints of Beer, usually Charles Wells's best bitter, and this has to be drunk in the quickest time (approx 13 seconds) generally by one of the young blades of the village.
While this is going on there are a number of concession stalls around The Knoll.
If you have any photo's of this event then we would love to borrow them to make copies.