St Columb
St Columb Major is a town as well as civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Frequently described locally as St Columb, it is roughly seven miles (11 kilometres) southwest of Wadebridge and also six miles (10 km) east of Newquay. The designation Major differentiates it from the close-by settlement and church of St Columb Minor on the coastline. An electoral ward just called St Columb exists with a population at the 2011 census of 5,050. Two times a year the community plays host to "tossing", a middle ages game when typical throughout Cornwall today just played in St Columb and also St Ives. It is used Shrove Tuesday and then once again on the Saturday eleven days later. The game involves 2 teams of a number of hundred people (the 'townsmen' as well as the 'compatriots') that endeavour to bring a silver sphere constructed from apple wood to objectives established two miles (3 km) apart, making the parish, around 25 square miles (65 km2) in area, the de facto biggest sporting activities ground in the world.