Conker Season

The game of Conkers dates back as far as 1821, when the first ever recorded game was played on the Isle of Wight in 1848. In 1965 the first world Conker championships took place in Ashton, Northamptonshire, which still continues on the second Sunday of October-raising thousands of pounds for charity each year.

Regionally, Conkers are also known as obblyonkers, cheggies* or cheesers. In D.H. Lawrence’s book ‘Sons and Lovers’, the game is referred to as cobblers by William More. The name may come from the dialect word Conker, meaning “knock out.”

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