Custom
Hare pie scramble and bottle kicking
Pie first, then the scrum.
Stand where it happened
- What's there
- Village green and fields with streams
- Legend from
- Hallaton custom
- Tone
- Rowdy
No pie, no parson.
Every Easter Monday Hallaton and Medbourne fight over small barrels ('bottles') across two streams. Wikipedia gives the story that two women were saved from a bull by a hare and gave land for a hare pie, ale and loaves. The BBC reported that in 2026 Hallaton won 2-0 after the hare pie was blessed and scrambled. CONFLICT: Wikipedia dates the 'No pie, no parson' story to a rector in 1790; the BBC places the parson in Victorian times.