Arbor Day
One of Britain's last surviving tree-dressing customs, the village black poplar has its flags ceremonially renewed each May in a tradition unbroken since 1786 and rooted in Oak Apple Day.
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"Four stages of folk, world music and Americana plus a dance tent, craft fair and children's festival fill the showground of a medieval Shropshire market town."
Shrewsbury Folk Festival
"Shropshire's largest steam event, with over 1200 exhibits at Onslow Park including shire horses ploughing the working field, steam-powered cultivating, vintage tractor pulling and the famous Grand Parade set to nostalgia poetry."
Shrewsbury Steam Rally
"One of the original independent food festivals, set in the castle of this celebrated Marches food town."
Ludlow Food Festival
"A makers market, castle light trail and a young farmers tractor run kick off Christmas in one of England's finest medieval food towns."
Ludlow Winter Festival
"Contemporary and traditional music plays out across the wooded Hopton Court estate alongside a woodland spa, storytelling and four nights under canvas."
Beardy Folk Festival
"Rummage for vintage finds inside the historic Town Hall of one of England's smallest towns, with a veg stall tucked out front."
Bishop's Castle Antiques and Flea Market
"One of the highest-altitude well dressings in Derbyshire, Taddington's boards are dressed and displayed in a windswept limestone plateau village above the Wye Valley."
Taddington Well Dressing
"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
"Five thousand people explore old cabins, dilapidated buildings and woodland in a forgotten Lincolnshire village over August Bank Holiday, soundtracked by international house, techno and electronica with fire-cooked banquets in the forest."
Lost Village Festival
"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
"Longnor's cobbled market square hosts one of the last well dressings of the season in the Staffordshire Moorlands, a rare continuation of the Derbyshire tradition just over the county border."
Longnor Well Dressing
"One of the latest and longest-running well dressings in the season, Hartington's boards grace the stone-clad village square near the duck pond, extending the ancient tradition well into autumn."
Hartington Well Dressing