Lancashire tradition of Morris Dancing is replete with mixed and (sometimes) female sides

Fidler's Fancy can trace there history back further than Handsworth.

And frankly I'd sooner spend a weekend with Pecsaetan, Mortimer's Fidler's, Windsor Black Anis, etc than many men's teams. Much more fun.

And read http://www.thedonkey.org/Recycling/so_who_was_mary_neal.html

for an interesting story about women dancing.