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Gwaun Valley children mark old New Year

Children in the Pembrokeshire hills will spend Friday, 13 January walking the 29km around their valley singing to their neighbours to welcome in the New Year.
They are not two weeks late, but rather celebrating Hen Galan, or old New Year, which marks the ancient Julian calendar followed until it was superseded in parts of Britain by the Gregorian calendar in the 18th Century.
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The Old New Year or the Orthodox New Year is an informal traditional Slavic Orthodox holiday, celebrated as the start of the New Year by the Julian calendar.
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