"The showground at Sutton on the Forest in the Vale of York hosts one of North Yorkshire's most charming traditional agricultural shows, a family day of livestock, show jumping and produce set in the flat pastoral country between the Moors and the Dales."

Huby and Sutton Show

"A small village market on the green in one of the prettiest villages in the Howardian Hills. Every first Saturday of the month."

Hovingham Farmers Market

"A FARMA national award winner where over thirty producers fill the Georgian market square with food reared or made within fifty miles."

Stokesley Farmers' Market

"An honest market town doing what market towns do, on the second Sunday of every month. The kind of morning that stays with you."

Bedale Farmers Market

"The 167th Great Yorkshire Show at Harrogate: 35,000 visitors a day, sell-out every year, and the moment when Yorkshire's farming community gathers under its biggest and most unself-conscious sky."

Great Yorkshire Show

"Hundreds of working engines and elaborately restored fair organs gather at Marfield, with every penny of profit going to keep Masham Town Hall alive."

Masham Steam Engine & Fair Organ Rally

"The village of Weeton near Harrogate holds its annual show on a Sunday in July when the hedged fields of the Leeds-Harrogate corridor are at their greenest, a genuine local show run by and for the community of the surrounding parishes."

Weeton Show

"Dales farmers and makers fill the cobbled Market Square of this Wharfedale village with artisan bread, preserves and locally reared meat."

Grassington Farmers' Market

"The world's largest crime writing festival packs four July days with over 140 authors for its biggest year in 23 editions, with Ann Cleeves, Anthony Horowitz and David Baldacci among the names filling Harrogate's Old Swan Hotel."

Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival

"The Nidderdale village of Birstwith hosts a show that is celebrating over 130 years in 2026, an intimate gathering of livestock, produce and family sports that has never grown beyond the size of the village green and never needed to."

Birstwith Show

"The small village of Borrowby in the Hambleton Hills hosts its agricultural show at Knayton in the heart of the North Yorkshire plain, a show where every competitor has usually driven less than twenty minutes from home and the results are discussed in the local pub for weeks afterwards."

Borrowby Show

"The 1st Kirkbymoorside Scouts organise this annual trail through the North York Moors market town, where scarecrows in gardens and on doorsteps can only be found by buying a trail map from local shops, turning the search itself into a reason to walk every lane of a town most visitors drive straight through."

Kirkbymoorside Scarecrow Trail

"Set within the award-winning grounds of Newby Hall near Ripon, this well-established show is known as a small show with a big personality, with traditional country classes and one of North Yorkshire's finest showground settings."

Aldborough and Boroughbridge Show

"One of the largest one-day agricultural shows in the North of England, set in the magnificent parkland of Duncombe Park with over 250 trade stands, sheepdog trials, a brass band and a showcase of local livestock and crafts."

Ryedale Show

"Traction engines, showman's engines and road rollers gather above Whitby for a summer rally that ends each Saturday with fireworks over the abbey ruins, in one of the most dramatic settings for any steam event in England."

Whitby Traction Engine Rally

"The beautiful village of Osmotherley above the Vale of Mowbray holds its annual show at Thimbleby each August, a hill-country gathering where the Cleveland Hills form an unbroken skyline above the ring and the sheep and cattle classes are judged with an intimacy impossible in any larger show."

Osmotherley Show

"Ripon celebrates the return of St Wilfrid from Rome in 672 AD with a costumed procession through the city each August Bank Holiday Saturday, a piece of living medieval pageantry that has run continuously for well over a thousand years and remains entirely in the hands of the city's own community."

St Wilfrid Procession

"One of the Vale of York's biggest village shows, handing out more than 120 trophies across livestock, horticulture and a different farm-animal theme each year."

Tockwith Show

"The 225th running: the Egton Bridge Old Gooseberry Society meets in a North York Moors village to weigh berries that have been grown in secret since March, and the champion is measured in drams, not centimetres."

Egton Bridge Old Gooseberry Show

"In its 105th year, this show in one of the prettiest villages on the edge of the North York Moors is considered the best and friendliest traditional rural show in the locality, with livestock, crafts, produce and local food."

Thornton-le-Dale Show

"Now in its 155th year, this Cleveland coast show near Saltburn-by-the-Sea is said to have originated from an argument over who owned the finest Cleveland Bay foal, and retains deep roots in equine and agricultural tradition."

Hinderwell Horse and Agricultural Show

"A volunteer-run, not-for-profit gathering that scatters concerts, ceilidhs, puppetry and street performance through a historic Victorian seaside town on the cliffs."

Saltburn Folk Festival

"For nine days every August this Wharfedale village fills its gardens, walls and doorways with handmade scarecrows, and half the fun is the treasure hunt of finding them all."

Kettlewell Scarecrow Festival

"This North Yorkshire village between Bedale and Northallerton holds its annual feast on a summer Saturday in a tradition that predates the railway and the motor car, an intensely local occasion where the village green is the venue and the whole community is both performer and audience."

Kirkby Fleetham Feast

"The model village of Ripley, built in the 1820s in a French Alsatian style by Sir William Amcotts Ingilby to house his estate workers, hosts its agricultural show in the castle grounds each August, a day of livestock and country sports in one of Yorkshire's most unusual and picturesque villages."

Ripley Agricultural Show

"A beloved traditional show held near Harrogate celebrating the best of rural Yorkshire with show jumping, livestock, light and heavy horses, and a parade of Hurworth Hunt Hounds."

Ripley Show

"The 164th Danby Show brings horses, horticulture, ferrets, sheepdog trials, Whitby Falconers and Bilsdale Silver Band to a North York Moors village tucked in the Esk Valley."

Danby Agricultural Show

"A traditional North York Moors show featuring ferrets, horses, horticulture, vintage machinery, sheepdog trials and the Bilsdale Silver Band in a dramatic moorland setting."

Danby Show

"Run by a Yorkshire transatlantic folk band, this family-friendly weekend sets transatlantic roots music among the parkland and gardens of a stately home."

The Magpies Festival

"Founded in 1871 and held in the Milburn Arms Field in the tranquil valley village of Rosedale Abbey, this long-running show features foxhound and terrier shows, gundog displays, terrier races, hound trails, and a gymkhana."

Rosedale and District Show

"Founded in 1871, this intimate show at Milburn Arms Field in the heart of Rosedale Abbey showcases heavy horses, cattle, goats, vintage tractors and local produce against the backdrop of a former ironstone mining valley."

Rosedale Show

"One of England's most singular calendar customs, this centuries-old West Witton rite sees a chanting crowd carry a glowing-eyed effigy of 'Bartle' through the village at nightfall before stabbing and burning him on the hillside above Wensleydale."

Burning Bartle

"Held in the grounds of Eshton Hall near Skipton, this traditional Dales show blends livestock and horticulture classes with show jumping, sheepdog trials and fell running."

Gargrave Agricultural and Horticultural Show

"Held in the grounds of Eshton Hall in a Dales village near Skipton, the Gargrave Show has cattle, sheep, showjumping and a fell race, a cornerstone of local tradition since the Victorian era."

Gargrave Show

"An effigy is carried through the Wensleydale village to a rhyme before being burned, origins long lost."

Burning of Old Bartle

"Over a hundred concerts plus rapper, clog and Morris teams spill through a clifftop fishing town for a full week of song, dance, shanties and storytelling."

Whitby Folk Week

"The Yorkshire Dales' premier agricultural show since 1897, set in the shadow of Kilnsey Crag and famous for its fell race up the Crag itself, combining keenly contested livestock and sheepdog trials with baking, handicrafts, and traditional Dales sports."

Kilnsey Show and Sports

"A Wednesday show in late August in a North York Moors village that still takes its horses seriously, hunters, heavy breeds, and a showground in a dale that feels entirely self-sufficient."

Egton Horse and Agricultural Show

"The 114th Bilsdale Show at Thornhill Farm in Chop Gate, a beautiful remote Moors valley show with Swaledale sheep, horses, ferrets, a fell race and Bilsdale Silver Band, raising funds for local charities."

Bilsdale Agricultural Show

"Thornhill Farm in the hidden valley of Bilsdale, running south from the Cleveland Hills between Stokesley and Helmsley, hosts this remote moorland show each late August where the audience is almost entirely made up of people who farm the surrounding hills and have done so for generations."

Bilsdale Show

"Bank Holiday Saturday in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales: limestone pavements above, Swaledale sheep in the ring below, a show that has run for over a hundred years without ever trying to be anything it is not."

Malham Show

"Bank Holiday Saturday in the limestone heart of the Yorkshire Dales: Wensleydale sheep in the ring, fell races up the hillsides, cheese in the tent, and the dale doing exactly what it does best."

Wensleydale Agricultural Show

"The 117th Farndale Show at Low Mill fills a daffodil valley in the North York Moors with cattle, Swaledale sheep, a hound show, terrier racing, sheepdog trials and Jelly Roll Jazz Band on August bank holiday Monday."

Farndale Agricultural Show

"The Farndale valley on the North York Moors is famous for its wild daffodils in spring and for this bank holiday show in late August, a gathering of moorland farming families in one of the most unspoiled and least-visited dales in all of Yorkshire."

Farndale Show

"Bank Holiday Monday in Swaledale: Dales ponies, Swaledale sheep, fell races up the dale sides, and the complete absence of any reason to go anywhere else."

Reeth Show

"Overdale, under Kilnsey Crag: the Upper Wharfedale show on the first day of September, where Dales cattle and sheep are judged with the limestone overhang looming fifty feet above the showfield."

Kilnsey Show

"The 119th Muker Show is held in the flower-rich meadows of this remote Swaledale village, featuring fell racing, sheepdog trials, and live music from the celebrated Muker Silver Band against a backdrop of some of the finest Dales scenery in Yorkshire."

Muker Agricultural Show

"The 119th Grand Annual Show in idyllic Upper Swaledale, with Swaledale sheep showing, sheepdog running, a fell race, crafts and produce, followed by the whole village singing with Muker Silver Band at 5pm."

Muker Show

"A traditional Dales-edge show of sheep, cattle, poultry, handicraft and horticulture with no horse classes, ending the show season where the Yorkshire moors meet Lancashire."

Bentham Show

"The tiny village of Kildale in the Cleveland Hills holds its annual show on a September Saturday when the moors above are burning with late heather and the show ring is surrounded by some of the finest high moorland scenery on the North York Moors."

Kildale Show

"A tiny, beloved community show at Lealholm Sports Field in the Esk Valley where farm produce, flowers, baking and local crafts fill the village field, with generations of neighbours competing for honour in every class."

Lealholm Farm Produce and Horticultural Show

"The Malton showground in the Ryedale market town hosts this September traction engine rally where working steam engines from across Yorkshire and the North compete in road runs and working demonstrations, the last major steam show of the Yorkshire summer season."

Yorkshire Traction Engine Rally

"Held on the green beside the River Wharfe since the sixteenth century, with the brutal 1.5 mile dash up Burnsall Fell as its breathless centrepiece."

Burnsall Feast Sports and Classic Fell Race

"One of the oldest Yorkshire Dales sheep shows, established over a century ago at Mossdale near Hawes, with local breeds, home produce, walking-stick carvery and Hawes Silver Band on the windswept moor."

Moorcock Show

"England's only festival of medieval music fills fourteenth century Bolton Castle and its church with lute, oud and bagpipe as performers explore the forgotten margins of the medieval world."

Medieval Music in the Dales

"Every September the cobbled streets and cottages of this dramatic Yorkshire fishing village open as pop-up galleries for around 100 artists, with heritage talks, lighting installations and live music filling the weekend."

Staithes Festival of Arts and Heritage

"A 70-acre site in Lower Wensleydale packed with steam ploughing engines, vintage vehicles, falconry, a craft fair and a food market, in a valley setting that makes this one of the most scenic steam events in the north."

Hunton Steam Gathering

"For ten September days, Parliament Street and the surrounding streets of historic York fill with over 150 food and drink producers, chef demonstrations, artisan markets, pop-up restaurants and tastings celebrating Yorkshire produce."

York Food and Drink Festival

"A one-day North Yorkshire show in September that has been the anchor of the Stokesley social calendar since 1859, prize Cleveland Bays, heavy horses, North York Moors ponies, and a town that turns out completely."

Stokesley Show

"Bewerley Park on the third Sunday of September: the valley gathers itself for one more great day before autumn sets in, with Dales ponies, produce and the particular amber light of Nidderdale in September."

Nidderdale Show

"Rare breed sheep fill the market square with sheep racing, shearing and Wensleydale crafts."

Masham Sheep Fair

"Ten days of cheese trails, farm tastings, guided walks with cheesemakers and special menus spread across every village and dale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, celebrating the artisan producers behind Wensleydale, Swaledale and more."

Yorkshire Dales Cheese Festival

"The fertile Vale of York farmland around Thirsk hosts county ploughing competition each October, where Herriot country's wide fields and the escarpment of the Hambleton Hills rising to the east frame the furrows of competitors who treat the straight line as a matter of personal honour."

North Yorkshire Ploughing Championship

"The Market House in England's highest market town fills with local and regional makers selling hand-crafted wood, knitwear, jewellery and ceramics for a special November Christmas show, deep in the winter silence of Wensleydale."

Hawes Christmas Craft Fair

"Cobbled Yorkshire Dales lanes fill with stalls, brass bands and the scent of mulled wine in this beloved replacement for the old Dickensian festival."

Grassington Christmas Market

"Settle's annual market fills the historic Market Place with food, drink and produce stalls, rounded off with a community fireworks display and the town Christmas lights switch-on at dusk."

Settle Christmas Market

"The North York Moors market town famous for its steam railway goes fully Victorian for a winter weekend, with staff in period dress, lantern-lit streets, costumed carol singers and a steam train pulling out of the station into the winter darkness to the sound of period band music."

Pickering Victorian Christmas

"The historic Market Place fills with festive stalls and a Sunday fireworks display bursts above the river gorge and viaduct."

Knaresborough Christmas Market

"Over a hundred stalls line the broad medieval High Street beneath the castle for a proper Dales Christmas wander."

Skipton Yuletide Festival

"One of England's oldest longsword teams parades from the Reading Room and dances across the moorland village in pink and blue Crimean-striped tunics."

Goathland Plough Stots Day of Dance

"Each spring, wild Narcissus pseudonarcissus carpets a seven-mile stretch of the River Dove in Farndale Nature Reserve, drawing up to 40,000 visitors to a dale with a resident population of around 200."

Farndale Daffodil Walk

"A privately owned Grade I Palladian hall throws open its formal and woodland gardens each May Bank Holiday to display over 6,000 tulips across more than 100 varieties, planted as the northern show garden for Chelsea gold-medal nursery Bloms Bulbs."

Constable Burton Hall Tulip Festival

"A penance ritual dating to 1159, the Penny Hedge sees a woven hazel and willow hedge planted in Whitby's Upper Harbour at 9am on Ascension Eve, built to survive three tides, with a hornblower crying 'Out on ye!' to close the ceremony."

Whitby Penny Hedge

"The gardens of Newby Hall open for a weekend of vintage tractors, classic machinery and family activities in the grounds of one of Yorkshire's finest historic houses beside the Ure, an event that combines the beauty of a great garden with the noise and colour of working farm machinery."

Newby Hall Tractorfest

"A two-week arts festival in one of the Yorkshire Dales' most-loved market villages, with theatre, music, comedy and workshops spread through the cobbled square and surrounding dale."

Grassington Festival

"Decorated beds on wheels race through the North Yorkshire market town on the second Saturday in June, crossing the River Nidd in 2026's Swinging Sixties edition, in one of England's most eccentric and joyful annual spectacles."

Great Knaresborough Bed Race

"The 32nd year of a world-class classical music festival in a Roman village near York, where the Times said it is well on its way to being one of the leading fixtures on the calendar and where the Orchestra of Opera North opens the programme in a meadow."

Northern Aldborough Festival

"Ten years of this boutique midsummer festival deep in a North Yorkshire valley, with reggae, ska, folk and blues on woodland stages, art installations among the trees, craft workshops and the kind of community feel that only an independent festival still run with genuine love can produce."

Willowman Festival

"A single-day show at Otterington Hall that quietly holds its own against the bigger county shows, Dales livestock, local producers, and that specifically North Yorkshire sense of unhurried competence."

North Yorkshire County Agricultural Show

"Europe's biggest falconry gathering fills the walled parkland of Duncombe Park with swooping hawks and austringers, where a medieval art is practiced at elite modern competition level over two summer days."

British Falconry and Raptor Fair

"Almost the whole of this Wensleydale village in the Yorkshire Dales joins in, opening around twenty gardens with refreshments served all day in the Village Institute."

Carperby Village Open Gardens

"A dozen gardens in a pretty village near Richmond open up, one holding the National Collection of sea-holly eryngiums, with a miniature gardens competition for under-12s."

Gilling West Secret Gardens

"The Great Yorkshire Traction Engine Club's annual gathering in the grounds of Duncombe Park, where steam engines of all sizes parade through a North York Moors estate that has hosted the rally since 1963."

Duncombe Park Steam and Vintage Rally