Editing Plough Monday (section)

{{Short description|Traditional English start of the agricultural year}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2024}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}
[[File:Illustration from The Costume of Yorkshire by George Walker, digitally enhanced by rawpixel-com 12.jpg|thumb|Plough Monday, from George Walker's ''[[The Costume of Yorkshire]]'', 1814]]
'''Plough Monday''' is the traditional start of the English agricultural year. It is the first Monday after [[Epiphany (Christian)|Epiphany]], 6 January.<ref name="hone">{{ cite book
 | last = Hone
 | first = William
 | title = The Every-Day Book
 | publisher=Hunt and Clarke
 | location = London
 | year = 1826
 | page = 71}}</ref><ref name="oed">{{cite web
 | title = Plough Monday
 | publisher=Oxford English Dictionary (online edition, subscription required)
 | url = http://dictionary.oed.com/
 | accessdate = 1 December 2006
}}</ref> References to Plough Monday date back to the late 15th century.<ref name="oed" /> The day before Plough Monday is [[Plough Sunday]], on which a [[ploughshare]] is brought into the local Christian church with prayers for the blessing of human labour, tools, as well as the land.<ref>{{cite web |title=After Epiphany, the Twelfth Night of Christmas |url=https://standrewlutheran.com/january-9-2022/?print=print |access-date=4 June 2023 |date=9 January 2022 |quote=Sunday celebrations usually involved bringing a ploughshare into a church with prayers for the blessing of the land.|publisher=St. Andrew Lutheran Church}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Nicholls |first1=Janet |title=Plough Sunday |url=https://www.chelmsford.anglican.org/uploads/files/Plough_Sunday.pdf |publisher=[[Diocese of Chelmsford]] |access-date=4 June 2023 |language=English |date=2006}}</ref>