"A proper village fayre that runs from afternoon to late evening, with a dog show, circus skills workshops and local bands playing under the Hertfordshire sky."
Little Hadham Summer Fayre
"Folk and roots music in the grounds of a Jacobean country house. The setting does most of the work; the line-up does the rest."
Folk by the Oak
"Pun-loving villagers craft dozens of scarecrows like Builder's Bum and The Crow Bar along a trail that funds the future-proofing of St Leonard's church."
Flamstead Scarecrow Festival
"On the first of October in this small Hertfordshire village, the leaves from Church Lane are swept onto the road so that an elderly man from the parish can roll down the lane and the children can shout after him, a custom so old and so eccentric that even the villagers are not entirely sure what it commemorates."
Braughing Old Man's Day
✦ Weird & Wonderful"The Hertfordshire Agricultural Competitions Association's annual ploughing match takes competitors to the chalk downland north of Royston each autumn, farming country that has been intensively worked for centuries but where the ploughing match keeps the older skills in regular use."
Hertfordshire Ploughing Match
"A Hertfordshire market town's CAMRA festival at the Rugby Club: three days, dozens of ales and ciders, and a town that always seemed like it ought to have a good beer festival."
Hitchin Beer and Cider Festival
"A long-running city folk weekend that fills the pubs with song, and by Saturday evening spills, quietly, into the streets."
St Albans Folk Festival
"A boutique one-day festival that turns a Hertfordshire village green, church and memorial hall into stages, hailed by the BBC Radio 2 Folk Show as one of the best little festivals in the country."
Kimpton Folk Festival