St Columb
St Columb Major is a community and also civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK. Often described in your area as St Columb, it is around seven miles (11 km) southwest of Wadebridge and also six miles (10 km) east of Newquay. The designation Significant distinguishes it from the nearby negotiation and also church of St Columb Minor on the coastline. An electoral ward simply called St Columb exists with a population at the 2011 census of 5,050. Twice a year the community plays host to "tossing", a medieval game when common throughout Cornwall and now only played in St Columb and St Ives. It is played on Shrove Tuesday and afterwards again on the Saturday eleven days later on. The game involves two groups of several hundred individuals (the 'townsmen' as well as the 'countrymen') who endeavour to carry a silver round made of apple wood to objectives set two miles (3 kilometres) apart, making the parish, around 25 square miles (65 km2) in area, the de facto biggest sports ground on the planet.