Welcome to CWWA
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- Sat, 13th August 2022 (11.45am)Dalston Show
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- Sat, 13th August 2022 (3.30pm)Slaley Show
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- Sun, 14th August 2022 (2.30pm)Forestburngate (Simonside Country Fair)
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- Sat, 20th August 2022 (1.30pm)Allendale Show
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- Sat, 20th August 2022 (2.00pm)Gosforth Show
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- Sun, 21st August 2022Lakeland Country Fair - Torver
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- Thu, 25th August 2022 (3.30pm)Grayrigg Show
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- Sat, 27th August 2022 (12.00pm)Holm Show, Newcastleton
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- Sat, 27th August 2022 (3.00pm)Millom & Broughton Show
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- Sat, 27th August 2022 (3.30pm)Bellingham Show
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- Sun, 28th August 2022 (11.00am)Grasmere Sports
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- Mon, 29th August 2022 (1.30pm)Keswick Show
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- Wed, 31st August 2022Ennerdale Show
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For centuries, backhold wrestling has gripped the hearts of wrestlers and spectators alike.
The fascination of man-against-man combat with its simple rules and subtle mix of speed, strength, agility, skill and determination is there to see in the grass rings at sports meetings and agricultural shows throughout the Northern Counties of England and the Borders of Scotland.
Against all odds, Cumberland and Westmorland Style wrestling survives as a skillful and vigorous sport, and for more than two centuries has been well documented by newspapers and specialised books, then more recently on social media and now this website.
Wrestling itself scarcely changes. If a wrestler from today's rings could travel back in time for two hundred years, he would be perfectly at home in a wrestling ring, for the same 'chips' are used; many of the technical terms (buttocks, hipes and dog falls) are the same, and the judges have the same problems too, such as ensuring that the wrestlers begin with an equal hold.
