"A volunteer-run festival keeping South Cumbrian folk-arts, clog dance and storytelling alive, spilling out from the Hope and Anchor pub into the streets of Ulverston."
Furness Tradition
"A FARMA-accredited market spilling out of the historic Market Hall in a Westmorland Dales village just minutes off the M6, with church teas and primary-school stalls."
Orton Farmers' Market
"A country music festival set against the dramatic fells backdrop of Muncaster Castle in the Eskdale valley, featuring UK country acts across a weekend on one of Cumbria's most spectacular private estates."
Country By The Castle
"A proper Cumbrian one-day show since 1834 at Brougham Hall Farm with sheepdog trials, fell ponies, ferret and birds of prey displays set against the backdrop of the Lake District fells."
Penrith Agricultural Show
"The Lake District's premier steam event on Cark Airfield beside Morecambe Bay, where traction engines, vintage vehicles and an autojumble spread across the old runway with Lakeland fells visible on clear days."
Cumbria Steam Gathering
"Children carry rush bearings woven into crosses and harps through Wordsworth's village to St Oswald's church, handed gingerbread at the end by the same shop that has made it for generations."
Grasmere Rushbearing
"A traditional one-day agricultural show set in the heart of South Lakeland near the famous Cartmel Priory, drawing livestock breeders and farming families from across Cumbria and beyond each summer."
Cartmel Agricultural Show
"West Cumbria's biggest food weekend takes over Maryport's waterfront with a producers' market, fresh seafood stalls, chef demos with nationally known names, sea shanties and free live music across two harbourside stages."
Taste Cumbria Maryport
"The 122nd year of this gorgeous one-day show in Rydal Park, with sheepdog trials, foxhound and terrier classes, hound trails, a shepherd's crook show and a fell race packed into a single Lakeland afternoon."
Vale of Rydal Sheepdog Trials and Hound Show
"The combined agricultural show for the Brough and Kirkby Stephen area showcases the sheep farming traditions of the Cumbrian Dales, with horticulture, vintage machinery, and livestock classes in the dramatic Upper Eden valley."
Brough and Kirkby Stephen Agricultural Show
"The Fellside Royal since 1864, a pure Eden Valley agricultural show in a remote Cumbrian village with sheepdog trials, fell races, quoits, children's fancy dress and the quiet pride of hill farming families on show."
Dufton Agricultural Show
"The 120th year of this tiny, utterly traditional Lakeland show at the foot of Helvellyn, with open sheepdog trials, foxhound and terrier judging and a fell race while the ancient sound of Cumbrian dialect fills the valley."
Patterdale Dog Day
"Since 1852 the Showfield at Grasmere has hosted Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling, fell guides racing, hound trailing and tug-of-war on the August Bank Holiday Sunday, and in 2026 entry is completely free."
Grasmere Sports
"Two September days at Crooklands, where Cumbria's livestock and rural skills are given the space they deserve, Herdwick sheep competing in the ring with the Lake District fells as the weather behind them."
Westmorland County Show
"Crabs (crab apples, thrown from a cart) in the morning, greasy pole and hound trailing through the day, and in the evening competitors push their faces through a horse collar to achieve the most grotesque expression possible, since 1267."
Egremont Crab Fair and World Gurning Championships
Villagly Award · Best Gurn in the UK ✦ Weird & Wonderful"A Lakeland show since 1866 in the remote beauty of Eskdale, proud home of the World Champion Herdwick sheep, with hound trails, fell races, terriers, wrestling and the ancient Cumbrian craft of stick and crook making."
Eskdale Show
"Cockermouth's flagship food and drink festival fills the market town where Wordsworth was born with Cumbrian produce, chef demonstrations, artisan stalls and live music each September."
Taste Cumbria Cockermouth
"Held over two days at the atmospheric Tweedies Bar and Lodge on Red Bank Road, this outdoor Christmas market draws artisan stallholders from across Cumbria and pairs local food and festive drinks with a Lake District village backdrop."
Grasmere Christmas Market
"This beautifully preserved Westmorland market town packs three days with chalet villages, indoor and outdoor markets, a lantern parade, a Ferris wheel in Market Square and live music across multiple stages in one of the Lake District's most complete and least-touristed town centres."
Kirkby Lonsdale Christmas Fair
"The village famous for sticky toffee pudding and its beautifully preserved medieval priory church wraps its square in Christmas lights each December, filling the square with local producers, food stalls and the particular warmth of a village that takes its festivities as seriously as its puddings."
Cartmel Christmas Market
"Over 50 craft and local produce stalls fill the car-free medieval streets of Hawkshead each December, culminating in a lantern parade and Christmas carols in the village square on Saturday evening."
Hawkshead Christmas Fair
"The largest gathering of Gypsies and Travellers in Europe, where 10,000 Roma and Traveller families bring hundreds of horse-drawn caravans and 1,000 horses to the Eden Valley town of Appleby for a week of trading, washing horses in the river and living traditions unchanged for centuries."
Appleby Horse Fair
"Twenty-five acoustic acts from folk to blues fill the pubs and barns of Dentdale across a long June weekend, washed down with locally crafted and Scottish ales in one of the most remote and beautiful limestone valleys in the Yorkshire Dales."
Dentdale Music and Beer Festival
"A full-day celebration at Windermere Jetty Museum honouring the heritage and traditional boating culture of England's largest lake, exploring the many ways communities have connected with Windermere across the centuries."
Festival of the Lake
"A small, deeply traditional Lakeland show in the shadow of Helvellyn with gundog displays, terrier racing, ferret racing, fell running and dry stone walling, all packed into a village field beside Ullswater."
Ullswater Country Fair
"On St Peter's Day the children of an Eden Valley village process to church in flower crowns and rush crosses, the girls crowned, the boys bearing crosses, a quiet survival of a once common rite."
Warcop Rushbearing
"Every first Saturday of July, Ambleside children carry rush-and-flower bearings in procession to St Mary's Church, collecting gingerbread after the service in a Lakeland custom that stretches back to the days of earth-floor churches."
Ambleside Rushbearing
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