Appleby Horse Fair
The largest gathering of Gypsies and Travellers in Europe, where 10,000 Roma and Traveller families bring hundreds of horse-drawn caravans and 1,000 horses to the Eden Valley town of Appleby for a week of trading, washing horses in the river and living traditions unchanged for centuries.
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"Children carry rush bearings woven into crosses and harps through Wordsworth's village to St Oswald's church, handed gingerbread at the end by the same shop that has made it for generations."
Grasmere Rushbearing
"A traditional one-day agricultural show set in the heart of South Lakeland near the famous Cartmel Priory, drawing livestock breeders and farming families from across Cumbria and beyond each summer."
Cartmel Agricultural Show
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Taste Cumbria Maryport
"The 122nd year of this gorgeous one-day show in Rydal Park, with sheepdog trials, foxhound and terrier classes, hound trails, a shepherd's crook show and a fell race packed into a single Lakeland afternoon."
Vale of Rydal Sheepdog Trials and Hound Show
"The combined agricultural show for the Brough and Kirkby Stephen area showcases the sheep farming traditions of the Cumbrian Dales, with horticulture, vintage machinery, and livestock classes in the dramatic Upper Eden valley."
Brough and Kirkby Stephen Agricultural Show
"The Fellside Royal since 1864, a pure Eden Valley agricultural show in a remote Cumbrian village with sheepdog trials, fell races, quoits, children's fancy dress and the quiet pride of hill farming families on show."
Dufton Agricultural 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
"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
✦ Weird and Wonderful"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
"More than 70 scarecrows on a single themed trail wind through a Pendle Hill village each August Bank Holiday, with hot food, children's quizzes and a raffle raising funds for the local hall and church."
Higham Scarecrow Festival
"A tiny Northumberland hamlet between Alnwick and Craster springs to life each August Bank Holiday with a scarecrow trail quiz, tombola, sausage sizzle and refreshments raising funds for the village hall and church."
Rennington Scarecrow Festival
"A Lune valley village fills its lanes with themed scarecrows for two weeks, ending in a fair on the green."
Wray Scarecrow Festival