Atherstone Ball Game

"The 75th championship brings 250 of Britain's finest ploughmen and women to a Warwickshire farm, with steam ploughing engines, heavy horses and 300 plots across 15 classes."

British National Ploughing Championships

"Over 250 ploughmen and women compete across fifteen classes from horse teams to crawlers, with steam ploughing engines and a tank ploughing demonstration thrown in."

British National Ploughing Championships & Country Festival

"The 18th running in Shakespeare's town: real ales and ciders across two days in a setting that already draws visitors for far less interesting reasons than this."

Stratford-upon-Avon Beer and Cider Festival

"Over 330 artists open bars, barns, cafes, churches and hallways across Warwickshire and Coventry for two weeks, creating a self-guided trail through villages and towns where you can meet makers working in their own spaces."

Warwickshire Open Studios Summer Art Weeks

"A volunteer-run village carnival revived in 2023 that draws over 1,000 people to Fisher Road for a grand procession, live music, and fairground rides celebrating community spirit."

Bishop's Itchington Carnival

"England's grandest countryside sports gathering at Ragley Hall, where tens of thousands of people come for clay shooting, falconry, working dogs, fly fishing and the unexpected pleasure of bumping into someone carrying a hawk."

Game Fair at Ragley Hall

"Possibly England's oldest continuous sheepdog trials, running since 1898 in front of Longshaw Lodge on the Peak District moors, where a special train once brought 700 spectators down from Manchester."

Longshaw Sheepdog Trials

"The Staffordshire County Showground organises district ploughing and hedgelaying matches each autumn, and the Eccleshall round draws competitors from across the county to farmland around one of Staffordshire's quieter market towns for a full day of working countryside skills."

Eccleshall District Ploughing and Hedgelaying Match

"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

"A vast rolling rugby scrum, the sway, pushes a leather hood to one of four pubs, a custom said to be 700 years old."

Haxey Hood

"Up'ards and Down'ards play a two-day game of football across three miles of town and river, goals set at old mills."

Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Football

"After a hare pie is scrambled, two villages battle to carry small barrels across streams in a no-rules contest."

Hallaton Bottle Kicking and Hare Pie Scramble