St Columb
St Columb Major is a community as well as civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Typically described locally as St Columb, it is approximately seven miles (11 kilometres) southwest of Wadebridge and also six miles (10 km) east of Newquay. The classification Major differentiates it from the close-by settlement as well as parish of St Columb Minor on the coast. A selecting ward merely named 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 typical throughout Cornwall now only played in St Columb and also St Ives. It is used Shrove Tuesday and then once more on the Saturday eleven days later on. The video game includes 2 groups of a number of hundred people (the 'townsmen' and also the 'countrymen') that endeavour to carry a silver round made of apple timber to objectives established 2 miles (3 km) apart, making the parish, around 25 square miles (65 km2) in location, the de facto biggest sports ground worldwide.