Custom
The Godiva Procession
Who will ride this year?
Stand where it happened
- What's there
- Costumed parade through city streets
- Legend from
- Civic custom
- Tone
- Festive
A boy played Godiva in 1678.
Coventry's Godiva Procession re-enacts the ride. Wikipedia says the first written record is in the Coventry City Annals for 1678, and British History Online adds that 'James Swinnerton's son represented Lady Godiva' that year. Wikipedia links the procession to the Great Fair, whose charter dates to 1217/18.