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| PRESS RELEASE (17 February 2006) |
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| Bus Company Gears Up For Ashbourne |
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SPECTATORS off to the Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide football game can catch a direct bus service from Derby this year.
The world famous annual match starts at 2pm on Tuesday 28 February.
trentbarton is recommending the 10.20am departure on ‘the one’ service from Albert Street – stop B1. An extra bus will also be on standby. Buses run every hour.
As Ashbourne’s official web site announces: “Only an idiot would park his or her car anywhere in the town!”
Hundreds of locals take to the streets of the Peak District town from 2pm to 10pm on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday to play the largest football game in the world.
The pitch is three miles long and two miles wide, with the boarded-up town of Ashbourne in the middle. Thought to date from Elizabethan times, the game is played between those Ashburnians who were born on the north side of the Henmore River - the Up'ards – and those born on the south side - the Down'ards.
For those passengers using another trentbarton bus, there is a reminder about ZigZag – the £3.80 ticket that gives unlimited travel after 9am. |
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