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Horkey

East Anglian (especially fenland) community celebration, with music and dance and shared food and a chance for those attending to perform a party piece. Source is local use around Ramsey Cambs - including its use for the celebration following a harvest festival - and the memories of Sybil Marshall who remembered it from her childhood in Ramsey Heights, Cambridgeshire. Her eightieth birthday, which she discussed on the Desert Island Discs she did, in the sugar beet club in Ely, was named a horkey. See also poem by Robert Bloomfield of Honington Suffolk, who wrote The Farmer's Boy" - http://allpoetry.com/The-Horkey.