"A full village wakes week combining four dressed wells, a scarecrow trail, a carnival parade, wakes royalty crowning, and a car boot sale in one of the Hope Valley's most community-spirited annual gatherings."
Hope Wakes and Well Dressing
"This moorland village at the foot of Kinder Scout dresses its wells with intricate petal-and-clay panels each late June, turning the stone streets of this northern Peak District gateway into a week of living art."
Hayfield Well Dressing
"Three days of curated music, theatre, comedy, literature and family events in the historic grounds of Repton School and village, a South Derbyshire market town with 1,400 years of history as a quiet setting for a quietly brilliant festival."
Repton Festival
"First Saturday of the month on the Memorial Gardens, with local produce, music and the steep stone streets of a former lead mining town climbing away on every side."
Wirksworth Farmers' Market
"Six opera productions, including four world premieres, fill Buxton Opera House and the Pavilion Gardens across 18 July days, making this Peak District spa town's festival one of the most ambitious programmes of rare and new opera anywhere in Britain."
Buxton International Festival
"A single great panel on Great Longstone's village green each July displays extraordinary craftsmanship from petals, seeds and bark pressed into clay, with a second children's board made entirely by young villagers."
Great Longstone Well Dressing
"Bamford village dresses its wells each mid-July with petal-and-clay panels set against the backdrop of the Peak District reservoirs, in a community tradition that draws visitors from across the Hope Valley."
Bamford Well Dressing
"A not-for-profit greenfield arts festival founded in 1969, rooted in folk and world music under canvas in a Derbyshire hamlet, complete with a willow-circle opening ceremony."
Stainsby Festival
"Two dressed wells on Whitwell's village green are blessed in a procession from Jubilee Road, with the making open to visitors each evening the preceding week at the Scout and Guide HQ."
Whitwell Well Dressing
"In its 52nd year, the world's only toe wrestling championship returns to Ashbourne Market Place where barefoot competitors lock toes and try to pin each other's foot to the ground in a sport invented in 1974 and officially rejected by the International Olympic Committee."
World Toe Wrestling Championship
✦ Weird & Wonderful"Three wells dressed with intricate flower-and-clay panels anchor a full week of events in this limestone gorge village each late July, including a fell race, model boat race, treasure hunt and brass band on the village green."
Stoney Middleton Well Dressing
"On the last Saturday of the month the Agricultural Business Centre fills with Peak District producers, in the town that gave its name to the pudding."
Bakewell Farmers' Market
"At the Barley Mow pub in Bonsall village, hens race over a thirty-foot course in heats building to a grand final, watched by enthusiastic crowds who take this Derbyshire Peak District tradition with exactly the gravity it deserves."
Bonsall World Championship Hen Racing
✦ Weird & Wonderful"A well-loved Peak District village custom in the heart of the Hope Valley, where Bradwell's community gathers each August to display and bless its hand-crafted petal mosaics."
Bradwell Well Dressing
"Derbyshire's premier steam and heritage show on a hillside farm in the Peak District fringes, with a working plant area, military living history groups, a wall of death and over 300 years of machinery on display in a single field."
Cromford Steam Rally
"A one-day country show in the Peak District foothills where horticulture classes sit beside heavy horses, sheep, vintage machinery and a 1:30pm dog show on Rectory Fields."
Ashover Agricultural and Horticultural Show
"A traditional village agricultural show set in the charming limestone village of Ashover in the Amber Valley, featuring livestock, craft, and horticultural competitions in a quintessentially Derbyshire setting."
Ashover Show
"One of the last Derbyshire wells dressed entirely in the old way with no nails or glue, just clay boards pressed petal by petal, blessed with a service and kept up for five days."
Barlow Well Dressing
"An annual one-day agricultural show in the southern Peak District gateway town of Ashbourne, celebrating local livestock, rural skills and Derbyshire farming heritage."
Ashbourne Show
"A full week of Derbyshire village carnival life with well dressings, a flower festival, a scarecrow competition and then the spectacular Saturday parade of floats, fancy dress and Carnival Royalty through the village, followed by classic cars, alpacas and children's entertainment on the recreation ground."
Barlow Carnival
"The plague village dresses its wells in late August, the same clay and petal craft as its neighbours, in a place that carries more history per cottage than almost anywhere in England."
Eyam Well Dressing
"One of the highest-altitude well dressings in Derbyshire, Taddington's boards are dressed and displayed in a windswept limestone plateau village above the Wye Valley."
Taddington Well Dressing
"One of Derbyshire's most tranquil well dressings appears in this small hamlet near Miller's Dale each August, where the petal-and-clay panel stands in one of the quietest and most beautiful corners of the White Peak."
Wormhill Well Dressing
"Built around a duck pond, a medieval cross and a bull ring, Foolow is the quintessential Peak District village and its well dressings in late August draw visitors who discover what the White Peak looks like when nobody planned a car park for it."
Foolow Well Dressing
"One of the Peak District's biggest Bank Holiday events with sheepdog trials running through to Tuesday, show jumping, heavy horses, gundogs and a food village drawing thousands to the Hope Valley in the hills."
Hope Show and Sheepdog Trials
"A much-loved annual show held on August Bank Holiday Monday in the heart of the Peak District's Hope Valley, bringing together livestock, terrier racing, fell running and rural crafts beneath the Dark Peak moorland."
Hope Valley Show
"Possibly England's oldest continuous sheepdog trials, running since 1898 in front of Longshaw Lodge on the Peak District moors, where a special train once brought 700 spectators down from Manchester."
Longshaw Sheepdog Trials
"Three days of grand ring spectacle in the 1000-acre parkland of Chatsworth House, with hot air balloon ascents, lurcher racing, celebrity chefs, country sports and a vintage fun fair against one of England's great ducal estates."
Chatsworth Country Fair
"One of the latest and longest-running well dressings in the season, Hartington's boards grace the stone-clad village square near the duck pond, extending the ancient tradition well into autumn."
Hartington Well Dressing
"Over 140 artists throw open homes, gardens and public spaces across the historic Derbyshire market town for one autumn weekend, transforming Wirksworth into a walking gallery with free shuttle buses, street music and food stalls."
Wirksworth Festival Art and Architecture Trail
"The congregation joins hands around the church in an embracing ceremony in this Peak lead-mining town."
Wirksworth Clypping
"Hardwick Hall's magnificent Elizabethan estate in north Derbyshire provides the setting for this artisan food and drink festival, where producers from across the Midlands set up in the shadow of one of the most celebrated great houses in England on a weekend when the park is at its September best."
Hardwick Hall Artisan Food Festival
"In its 21st year, Melbourne Festival opens private gardens, historic halls and family homes not usually accessible to the public, creating a walking art trail through this South Derbyshire market town for 172 artists across 65 venues."
Melbourne Festival Art and Architecture Trail
"More than 100 craft and food stalls fill the Great Court of Chatsworth House for five weeks each winter, set against one of England's grandest country houses with the Peak District as backdrop and the illuminated light trail running after dark."
Chatsworth Christmas Market
"This tiny Peak District village glows with one of the most famous festive light displays in the country as Santa parades in by tractor."
Castleton Christmas Lights Switch-On
"This steep, stone-built Peak District town strings up its lights, gathers carol singers and even brings alpacas to its farmers and craft market."
Wirksworth Christmas Weekend
"Up'ards and Down'ards play a two-day game of football across three miles of town and river, goals set at old mills."
Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Football
✦ Weird & Wonderful"Five wells are dressed with intricate pictures pressed in clay from flower petals, the best known of the Peak custom."
Tissington Well Dressing
"A King clad entirely in flowers rides through the Peak District village before his garland is hoisted up the church tower."
Castleton Garland Day
"A centuries-old Oak Apple Day custom in which the Garland King rides horseback through the village encased to the shoulders in a vast bell-shaped floral frame, before the crowning bouquet is hoisted to the top of the church tower."
Garland King Day
"Multiple dressed wells appear in Belper's Memorial Gardens each June, where teams press flower petals and seeds into clay frames to create biblical and secular panels that transform this old Derbyshire mill town's park into a gallery."
Belper Well Dressing
"A hidden limestone dale village presses flower petals and seeds into clay panels beside its spring, keeping alive an art form that is entirely and unmistakably Derbyshire."
Cressbrook Well Dressing
"One of the smallest settlements in north Derbyshire creates exquisitely detailed pressed-petal panels beside its village spring, a community act of beauty in a hamlet most maps barely name."
Elmton Well Dressing
"England's highest village, perched at 1,519 feet in the Dark Peak, dresses its wells with petalled pictures that somehow survive wind and weather to dazzle every visitor who climbs up to find them."
Flash Well Dressing
"A varied group of village gardens open in Repton, one of Mercia's oldest towns, where the prep school grounds and a ruined priory set the scene for a gentle summer day."
Repton NGS Village Gardens
"A stone-built village centred on a triangular green uses the midsummer custom of well dressing to turn its quiet lane into a gallery of flower petals and river-gathered seeds pressed into soft Derbyshire clay."
Litton Well Dressing
"High above Lathkill Dale, this tiny limestone village dresses its wells against a backdrop of one of the most beautiful river valleys in the Peak District, where the spring light turns everything to silver."
Over Haddon Well Dressing
"A tiny non-profit folk and indie gathering in a private Derbyshire garden north of Matlock celebrates its 20th anniversary with free-roaming family fun."
Exile Music Festival
"Tucked between Mam Tor and Win Hill in the Hope Valley, this charming village presses vivid petalled panels beside its springs each summer while the great ridgelines of the Peak stand watch overhead."
Hope Well Dressing
"A gateway village to Chatsworth and Haddon Hall turns its roadside wells into petalled mosaics each late June, a last quiet spectacle before the tourist road grows busy with summer."
Rowsley Well Dressing
"Petal pictures dress the wells beside the great Peak District church known as the Cathedral of the Peak."
Tideswell Well Dressing
"Five wells dressed over several days in a Peak District village above Bradford Dale, with the blessing on the Saturday afternoon, Youlgrave has one of the most technically accomplished well-dressing traditions in Derbyshire."
Youlgrave Well Dressing
"One of Derbyshire's most traditional wakes weeks, with the crowning of the Wakes Carnival Queen at the historic Market House, a wakes service, orienteering, and a timed hill climb on East Bank."
Winster Wakes
"Steam engines, vintage tractors, stock cars and an old-time fairground take over Elvaston Castle Country Park for a weekend that raises thousands of pounds for local charities including the Derbyshire air ambulance."
Elvaston Steam Rally
"Winster is one of a handful of English villages with its own unbroken Morris tradition, and on Wakes Saturday the Winster Morris Men perform their distinctive stepping dances through the village street and at the old market house, a living transmission of a tradition that has never left this limestone Peak District village."
Winster Wakes Morris Dancing