Editing Plough Monday (section)

===Whittlesey Straw Bear festival===
In the Cambridgeshire villages of [[Ramsey, Cambridgeshire|Ramsey]] and [[Whittlesey]] during the nineteenth century, on Plough Monday or Tuesday men or boys would dress in a layer of straw and were known as straw bears, who went door to door dancing for money. The tradition, which died out around the time of the First World War, was revived in 1980 at Whittlesey.<ref>{{cite book|last=Roud|first=Stephen|title=The English Year: A Month-by-Month Guide to the Nation's Customs and Festivals, from May Day to Mischief Night|year=2006|publisher=Penguin|pages=24–25}}</ref>  The revived tradition is practiced annually on the Saturday before Plough Monday, when a straw bear is paraded through the village's streets.<ref>[http://projectbritain.com/ploughMonday.htm Project Britain]</ref>