The Goathland dancers can trace their history back 200 years. The Plough Stots take their name from the tradition of taking a plough round the village for good luck after first blessing it; “stots” is a dialect word for the bullocks which used to pull it. They still perform this tradition today. Their pink or sky blue tunics are said to represent the political persuasions - Whig or Tory - of the households they were visiting.
