"Top of the Pups dog show, hog roast, cream teas, and a licensed bar on the grounds of a Cotswolds manor. The afternoon is the point."
Cowley Village Fete
"Since 1612: straw in the socks, hands on each other's shoulders, and the aim is to kick shins until someone falls. Judges wear top hats."
World Shin-Kicking Championships
Villagly Award · Bravest Shins in the UK ✦ Weird & Wonderful"Cirencester Park for a summer weekend: polo ground turned showground, Cotswold livestock in the ring and artisan food producers in the field, all inside an earl's private estate."
Cotswold Show and Food Festival
"One of the biggest one-day shows in England, held in the Cotswolds on the first Saturday of September, Shetland Pony Grand National, champion cattle, and a showground that fills the whole town with its presence."
Moreton Show
"Parishioners join hands to embrace their church among the famous 99 yews of this Cotswold wool village."
Painswick Clypping Ceremony
"Runners carry heavy woolsacks up and down the one-in-four Gumstool Hill, recalling the Cotswold wool trade."
Tetbury Woolsack Races
✦ Weird & Wonderful"A medieval-rooted fair with onion-eating contests and the heaviest onion competition in a Forest of Dean town."
Newent Onion Fayre
"Shin-kicking, tug of war and a torchlit procession on Dover's Hill, games first held in 1612."
Robert Dover's Cotswold Olimpicks
✦ Weird & Wonderful