Brinklow Village Festival and Scarecrow Trail
Brinklow's motte-and-bailey castle mound looks over a village that transforms itself every July into a scarecrow display with over eighty handmade figures spread across gardens and public spaces, combining a weekend of live music, craft stalls and a dog show into a genuinely full-village celebration.
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"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
"A huge leather ball is fought over along Long Street for two hours, a Shrove Tuesday game dating to 1199."
Atherstone Ball Game
✦ Weird and Wonderful"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
"A full week of Derbyshire village carnival life with well dressings, a flower festival, a scarecrow competition and then the spectacular Saturday parade of floats, fancy dress and Carnival Royalty through the village, followed by classic cars, alpacas and children's entertainment on the recreation ground."
Barlow Carnival
"A Leicestershire village fills its gardens, drives and lamp posts with over a hundred themed scarecrows each August Bank Holiday, inviting visitors to walk the trail and vote for their favourite over three days."
Desford Scarecrow Festival
"The Staffordshire village of Pattingham mounts scarecrows through its streets and gardens for three late September days, running alongside fairground rides and food stalls at the village club in a festival that has quietly become one of the best attended scarecrow events in the Midlands."
Pattingham Scarecrow Festival
"This tiny Peak District village glows with one of the most famous festive light displays in the country as Santa parades in by tractor."
Castleton Christmas Lights Switch-On
"A revival of Spalding's tulip-country tradition dating to 1959, where volunteer-built floats covered in thousands of fresh tulip heads parade 2.94 miles through the town accompanied by marching bands and entertainers."
Spalding Flower Parade
"The Derbyshire village of Tansley on the edge of the Peak District invites its residents to place scarecrows in their gardens and on their lanes for a summer Sunday, turning a quiet village walk into a tour of local humour and ingenuity that draws visitors from across the county."
Tansley Village Scarecrows