Dunmow: Love can bag you some bacon (From Gazette)

Dunmow: Love can bag you some bacon

8:30am Saturday 11th February 2012 in Braintree

Married couples can bring home the bacon - but only if they can persuade judges of their love.

Loved up spouses have until February 29 to enter this year’s Dunmow Flitch Trials.

The historic tradition – which date back to the 1100s -is held every four years and awards a flitch (or side) of bacon to married couples from anywhere in the world, if they can satisfy a judge and jury of six maidens and six bachelors that in 'twelvemonth and a day' they have 'not wisht themselves unmarried again'.

Couples must have been married for at least a year and a day.

The trials will be held on July 14 at Talbards Ley, Dunmow.

To take part, visit www.dunmowflitchtrials.co.uk, email info@dunmowflitchtrials.co.uk or call 01371 872816.