"Where exceptional arts, courageous activism and open-hearted belief meet in a stately home's parkland, holding its final festival at Boughton before moving home."
Greenbelt
"The UK's first employee-owned festival is a seriously silly, radically sustainable, meat-free adventure in utopia set in the grounds of a Northamptonshire hall."
Shambala Festival
"A Northamptonshire village green, hundreds of competitors in silly hats, one conker on a string. The 61st running of the most earnest competition you will ever attend in a field."
World Conker Championships
Villagly Award · Toughest Nut in the UK ✦ Weird & Wonderful"At midnight on Boxing Day, a mob of villagers paraders through Broughton in Northamptonshire banging tin cans, dustbin lids and any other available metal objects to drive away a witch who is said to have terrorised the village centuries ago, a custom so relentlessly noisy and purposeful that nothing else quite like it survives in England."
Broughton Tin Can Band
✦ Weird & Wonderful"Gardens of every size open in a sandstone village beneath Harpole Hills, mixing lush tropical plantings, water features, herb gardens and lovingly tended kitchen plots."
Harpole Open Gardens
"Up to eight gardens open beside the River Ise, from small terraced plots to the sweeping grounds of Bosworth House, with a medieval church, a friendly pub and a little bridge to cross."
Arthingworth Open Gardens
"A village that has opened its gardens and decked its church with themed floral art since 1963, with over 20 plots ranging from classic cottage to lovably eccentric."
Flore Flower Festival and Open Gardens
"A full range of gardens open in Kilsby, from tiny terraced plots to generous summer borders, in a canal-era village whose name echoes with a great Victorian railway tunnel."
Kilsby Open Gardens
"Over 40,000 people descend on a Northamptonshire village field for this 37th show that mixes heavy horses, steam ploughing, auctions and traction engines in an event that has raised millions for local charities since 1986."
Hollowell Steam and Heavy Horse Show