The Morris Ring Archive
The Oddington Page

Last updated 10th September 2000

It is convenient for many Archive users to be able to consult material which is grouped together in easily accessible form by tradition or geographical location. The Ring Archive has collated such information and the items relating to Oddington, Gloucestershire are detailed below.

Itens marked with a [] are "Restricted to Archive" and are only available for consultation within the Archive, all others can be suplied in photocopy form.

A. Published Sources.

• Stratford -upon-Avon Herald, 7/6/1912, 6.
  
  
• Heffer, A.B., "The Tour of the Travelling Morrice", EFDS News, 9, (1925), 247-253, 259-260.
  Contains information gleaned from Charles Taylor, a member of the Oddington side by the Travelling Morrice during their tour of the Cotswolds.
  
  
• Peck, A.L., "Two Cotswold Morris Men", JEFDSS, 1,1, (1932), 71.
  Further information obtained by the Travelling Morrice from Charles Taylor, an Oddington dancer, during 1929. Recounts the names of the tunes and dances which he taught.
  
  
• Cambridge Morris Men, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, Cambridge: Cambridge Morris Men, (1949), 16.
  Records that the Travelling Morrice met Charles Taylor in 1924 and 1929.
  
  
• Bacon, L., A Handbook of Morris Dances, London: The Morris Ring, (1974), 269-276.
  The relevant pages from the "Black Book". Contains interpretations of Oddington dances, including jigs, together with music.
  
  
• Heath-Coleman, P., [Letter on Hey Diddle Dis and Cuckoo's Nest], ED&S, 44,3, (1982), 23.
  Deals with the Oddington versions and their relationship to dances of the same name from other villages.
  
  
• Dommett, Roy, "My Lord of Sherborne's Jig", Morris Dancer, 1, 14, (1982), 2-3.
  Just a mention of the jig of tis name from Oddington.

• Chandler, K, Morris Dancing in the English South Midlands, 1660-1900. A Chronological Gazetteer, London: Hisarlik Press, (1993), 88-89.
  
  
• Seaborne, S., Charles Benfield and Morris Dancing in the Bledington Region, Morris Dancer, 3, 2, (1995), 53-57.
  

B. Unpublished Material.

• Clive Carey's Notes on Oddington.
  Modern (1956) typescript of Carey's MS notes of his visits to Oddington in 1912 and 1913.
  
  21/10/1912. Interview with Charles Taylor, Stow-on-the-Wold.
  23&24/3/1913. Interview with Charles Taylor, Stow-on-the-Wold.
  Tunes for Highland Mary, Swaggering Boney (or The Old Frog Dance), Princess Royal, Young Collins and Trunco. Notations (full or partial) for Young Collins, Jockie to the Fair, Highland Mary (Jig), Swaggering Boney, Princess Royal (Jig), Jockie to the Fair (Jig).
  
  
• Travelling Morrice, Log Book of Travelling Morrice 1, 1924.
  R.K. Schofield, Interview with Charles Taylor, Icomb, 23/6/24.
  
  
• R.K. Schofield MSS, 2, 2,
  
  No date.  Interview with Charles Taylor.
  f62 Brief note of Highland Mary (Jig)
  

• Extracts from Roy Dommett's Papers.
  Dommett's interpretations of Oddington, based upon manuscript sources. Includes music.
  
  
  A complete set of the above references can be supplied in a spiral binding. Price on application.

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