Surviving medieval ball games Inside the UK The Haxey Hood, played on Epiphany in Haxey, Lincolnshire Shrove Tuesday games Scoring the Hales in Alnwick, Northumberland Royal Shrovetide Football in Ashbourne, Derbyshire The Shrovetide Ball Game in Atherstone, Warwickshire The Shrove Tuesday Football Ceremony of the Purbeck Marblers in Corfe Castle, Dorset Hurling the Silver Ball at St Columb Major in Cornwall The Ball Game in Sedgefield, County Durham In Scotland the Ba game ("Ball Game") is still popular around Christmas and Hogmanay at: Duns, Berwickshire Scone, Perthshire Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands
