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Well good

Welcome to the deep valleys of the Peak District, where a centuries-old pagan ritual continues as an elaborate, annual community tradition. Each weekend from May until September, one of the area’s pretty, stone-built towns and villages holds a ceremony to reveal its well dressings: huge, intricate artworks that are made by pressing thousands of leaves

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