A Trip to Highgate
A triple minor longways dance from Thompson, Twenty Four Country Dance, 1777.
Barnes, Apted, PB
Key: G, Meter: 6/8, cheerful tune.

A1: 1s and W2 set moving forward;
    circle 3 (2 skip-changes traveling);
    then 1s and M2 do the same.
A2: 1s lead down the middle, up again & cast off
B1: hands 6 quite round to the left and back
B2: 1s lead tho' the bottom by going beween 3s and casting back into middle and
    top by going up beween 2s then casting back into middle.
    (APTED version: Morris Hey - same track for 1s, but other get to work.)

Alan comments: Fairly easy conversion to threecouple set; slip an extra pass
into B2.

John Garden comments:

In the Apted, The Playford Ball, P&P versions the problem of not having enough
time in A1 to set to the right and left and circle 3 hands left all in 8 counts
is solved by having dancers set only to the right, then using 6 slip steps to
turn the circle. As doing only 1/2 a set feels awfully curious, the solution I
propose below is to start the circling as you set forward and then complete the
circle not with 4 walking steps but with 2 step-change travelling steps (an
alternative would be to abandon the setting and to just do the circles - as in
'Barley Mow'. The Apted, The Playford Ball, P&P versions also follow the circle
in B1 with a 'morris' hey (beginning with the 1s going down between the 3).
Such a hey would seem to be modern variation designed to give the 2s and 3s a
little more dancing, for in the Thompson original which I have sited, the
figure in B2 is danced only by the 1s, not the 2s and 3s - though the 1s do
take the same path as they would if all were dancing a 'morris' hey.