"Chester's Victorian park hosts a full summer season of theatre from late June through early September, with Shakespeare, new writing and family shows performed in an intimate outdoor setting a short walk from the city walls."
Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre
"The world's largest independent cheese competition, judging entries from over 50 countries, sits at the centre of the Nantwich Show's full day of livestock, rural crafts, food and family entertainment at Reaseheath College."
Nantwich Show and International Cheese Awards
"The pinnacle of English sheepdog competition, run across four days on a Cheshire hillside where the country's finest handlers and their Border Collies compete for a place at the International."
English National Sheepdog Trials
"One of Cheshire's biggest steam gatherings fills Astle Park with showman's engines and fairground organs, capped by a Saturday-night firework display."
Astle Park Traction Engine Rally
"A screen-free family festival of wild freedom and glittering wonder where woodland glades, campfires and circus turn a Cheshire estate into a storybook."
Just So Festival
"Seventy stalls of crafts and local produce take over the scenic centre of this canal-and-cross Cheshire village beside Lymm Cross."
Lymm Makers Market
"Black-and-white timbered Tudor streets light up as a festive market lines Churchyardside in this characterful Cheshire market town."
Nantwich Christmas Lights and Festive Market
"One of England's oldest surviving May Day pageants, dating from 1864, where the streets of Knutsford are decorated with coloured sand mottoes before a costumed procession crowns the May Queen on the Heath."
Knutsford Royal May Day
"On a Willaston school field every June, charmers coax worms to the surface with garden forks and music inside a marked plot, eighteen solemn rules and a world record over five hundred worms in half an hour."
World Worm Charming Championships
Villagly Award · Strangest Talent in the UK ✦ Weird & Wonderful"Two days on the Cheshire Plain where the county's farming tradition meets its food obsession: supreme cattle champions, extraordinary local cheesemakers, and a show that has been held at Tabley since 1949."
Royal Cheshire County Show
"Children dress and dance around an ancient hawthorn said to descend from the Glastonbury Thorn."
Bawming the Thorn
"One of Cheshire's best-preserved black-and-white timber-framed villages runs an annual scarecrow trail through its lanes and cottage gardens, where the handmade figures compete for prizes and the village itself, looking entirely unchanged since the Elizabethan period, provides a backdrop that no other scarecrow trail in England can match."
Great Budworth Scarecrow Trail
"One of the country's largest commercial-vehicle gatherings sprawls over 75 Cheshire acres with lawn mower racing, tractor pulling and a falconry display."
Kelsall Steam & Vintage Rally