Mock mayor
British folk tradition
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The election of a mock mayor is British folk tradition found in a number of communities throughout the British Isles. A mock mayor is an individual who is elected by a popular informal assembly of individuals as a parody of the official office of mayor in any given community.
Examples
Examples may be found in:
Cornwall
- Helston (known as the Mayor of St Johns)[2]
- Mylor
- Penzance, as part of the Golowan Festival
- Penryn[3]
- Polperro
- St Germans
Elsewhere
- Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. (Known as the Mayor of Ock Street)[4]
- Barton, Gloucestershire.[5][6]
- Llansteffan, Wales.[7]
- Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.[8]
- Woodstock, Oxfordshire.[9][10]
