British National Ploughing Championships & Country Festival
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.
A proper working village that punches above its size with a CAMRA award-winning thatched pub, a Grade II* medieval church, and a village shop still open for business -- worth a stop, but not a whole day.
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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
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