Team: Datchet Border

General Notes
Formed 1961 as a Cotswold side and changed to Border in 1991/2.

Seasonal Customs
Boxing Day - The Green, Datchet, SL3 9EH. 10.45h start.
May Morning (1st) - Magna Carta Tea Room, Runnymede, SL4 2JL. (SatNav: TW20 0AE). Sunrise, 5.30h start.
The Hedgerley Village Wassail - The White Horse & Glebe Field Community Orchard, Hedgerley, SL2 3UY. 14.00h start

Archive Notes
Dances identified from notes in Datchet Morris scrapbook documents & photos during the Cotswold era (1961 – 1991)
William & Nancy (Bledington) - massed
Beaux of London City (Adderbury)(Badby)
Queens Delight (Bucknell) - massed
Banks of the Dee (Fieldtown)
Idbury Hill (Bledington)
Rose Tree (Bampton)
Sherriff's Ride (Lichfield)
Jockie to the Fair (Brackley)
Upton on Severn Stick Dance (Chingford)
Nutting Girl (Fieldtown) - jig
Constant Billy (Headington)(Adderbury)(Sherborne)
Bluebells of Scotland (Adderbury)
Lads a Bunchum (Adderbury)
Step Back / Old Molly Oxford (Fieldtown)
Lollipop Man / Boys of the Bunch (Ducklington)
Bower Processional (Lichfield) - processional
Highland Mary (Bampton)
Getting Upstairs (Headington)(Hinton)
Country Gardens (Fieldtown)
Bean Setting (Headington)(Brackley)
Wheatley Processional (Wheatley) - processional
Ladies Pleasure (Bledington) - jig
Ring O Bells (Lichfield)
Albion Stick Dance - Now known as Upton on Severn Stick Dance - Chingford version
Bobbing Joe / Bobbing Around (Bampton)
Shepherd's Hey (Headington)(Adderbury)(Lichfield - 3 man)
Fools Jig (Bampton) - jig
Winster Processional (Winster) - processional
Castlering (Lichfield)
Leapfrog (Fieldtown)(Bledington)
Cuckoo's Nest (Sherborne)(Longborough)
Monk's March (Sherborne)
Brighton Camp (Eynesham)
Shooting (Brackley)
The Rose (Fieldtown)
Swaggering Boney (Longborough)
Saturday Night (Bucknell)
Rodney (Headington)
Three Musketeers (Bledington)
Valentine (Fieldtown)
Black Joker (Bledington)
I'll go and Enlist for a Sailor (Sherborne)
Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl (Adderbury)
Vandals of Hammerwich (Lichfield)
Princess Royal (Bledington) - jig
The 29th May (Headington)
Black Joke (Adderbury)(Stanton Harcourt)
Rigs of Marlow (Headington)
Trunkles (Headington)(Bledington)
Maid of the Mill (Bampton)(Illmington)
Balance the Straw (Fieldtown)
Hunt the Squirrel (Headington)
Willow Tree (Bucknell) - massed
Bonny Green Garters (Bampton)(Bucknell) - massed
Young Collins (Bledington) - massed
Not for Joe (Pershore)
Step and Fetch Her (Bampton)
Old Woman Tossed Up (Headington) - jig
Old Mother Oxford (Headington) - jig
Flowers of Edinburgh (Bampton)
The Webley (Bampton)
Gallant Hussar (Bledington)
Glorishears (Bampton)
Lumps of Plum Pudding (Bledington) - jig
Black Joker (Bledington)
Bonnets so Blue (Bucknell) - jig
Dearest Dicky (Fieldtown)
None so Pretty (Fieldtown) - jig
Orange in Bloom (Sherborne)
Milley's Bequest (Lichfield)
Haste to the Wedding (Headington)
Laudnum Bunches (Headington)
Winlaten Rapper
New Biggin Rapper
Amble Rapper (Amble)
High Spen Rapper (High Spen)
North Skelton Long Sword (North Skelton) - all figs

When Datchet had a beast (originally a swan, later a goat) it's name was Pongo.
Datchet also had a fool.