Annotation:Kidlinton Green

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KIDLINTON GREEN. AKA - "Kidlington Green." English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was published in the third and fourth editions of John Young's Second Volume of the Dancing Master [1] (1718 and 1728), and in rival publishers Walsh and Hare's Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1719), and in John Walsh's (the younger) Compleat Country Dancing-Master, volume the Sixth (London, 1754).

The parish of Kidlington Green is in Oxfordshire. There was a hollow oak at Kidlington Green, "which, as the jail was at some distance, the judge on the circuit used to convert into a prison, where he confined rogues and malefactors till they could be conveyed to the county-town" ("Giant Trees" - 'The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 54, p. 418).

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