St Columb
St Columb Major is a town and also civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK. Often described locally as St Columb, it is around seven miles (11 kilometres) southwest of Wadebridge as well as six miles (10 kilometres) eastern of Newquay. The designation Major identifies it from the close-by settlement as well as church of St Columb Minor on the coast. An electoral ward simply 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 medieval video game once usual throughout Cornwall and now just played in St Columb as well as St Ives. It is played on Shrove Tuesday and afterwards once again on the Saturday eleven days later on. The game entails 2 teams of numerous hundred individuals (the 'townsmen' and also the 'fellow citizens') that endeavour to lug a silver sphere made of apple timber to objectives set two miles (3 km) apart, making the church, around 25 square miles (65 km2) in area, the de facto largest sports ground on the planet.