Dorton Dons was a very successful tug-of-war team in the 1960s and 1970s. Managed and coached by Don Claridge of Dorton in Buckinghamshire, they won regional and national championships. Whilst the team were based and trained in Dorton, they drew many of their team from local villages such as Brill, Ludgershall and Oakley. One training method utilised was looping the rope over a tree's branch and pulling a 45 gallon drum of concrete to the top.