Barkston Ash (nonfiction)

Barkston Ash is a small village and civil parish close to Selby in North Yorkshire, England.

A local legend has it that the ash tree which stands in the centre of the village and gives it its name also marks the exact centre of Yorkshire, and that anyone who spits at this tree will be struck by lightning a year and a day later (nonfiction).

The Barkston Ash Folly, a rumbustious and disorganised team game played by the young men of the village with pigs' bladders and "lighteners" (wooden staves), commemorated a mythical figure known as Jack Foll whom this accident is said to have befallen.

The last recorded Barkston Ash Folly was in 1753.

Fiction cross-reference

• Rumbustious lightning

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Jack Foll (nonfiction)
• Lightning (nonfiction)
• Rumbustious (nonfiction)

External links:

• Barkston Ash @ Wikipedia