Chester-le-Street Steam and Vintage Fair
70 years since the first rally, this County Durham estate show still gathers huge steam engines, vintage commercials and classic cars in the grounds of Lambton Castle.
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"A coastal food celebration on the Durham seafront featuring street food, cookery classes, live music, TV chefs, and locally sourced produce from across the North East."
Seaham Food Festival
"Claimed to be England's oldest open-air agricultural show, this two-day Weardale event at Scotch Isle Park combines serious livestock competitions with show jumping, birds of prey, an artisan food market, and live music."
Wolsingham Show
"A brand new not for profit festival on a historic coastal peninsula mixing folk concerts, Morris dancing and a 1940s themed day at a Victorian gun battery museum."
Headland Folkfest
"A small leather ball is passed through a bull ring and fought across the village in a game over 1000 years old."
Sedgefield Shrove Tuesday Ball Game
✦ Weird and Wonderful"Two days of live tribute bands and a food village set in the heart of the Durham Dales at Stanhope showground, with a popular fancy dress competition on the Saturday."
Stanhope Weekender Music Festival
"A two-day showground spectacular at Thornly Hall Farm featuring livestock competitions, show jumping, monster trucks, Shetland pony racing, and a fun dog show for all the family."
Durham County Show
"One of the largest one-day agricultural shows in the North of England, set in the magnificent parkland of Duncombe Park with over 250 trade stands, sheepdog trials, a brass band and a showcase of local livestock and crafts."
Ryedale Show
"A classic moorland village show under the famous Emley Moor mast, packed with prize sheep, vintage machinery and the local brass band."
Emley Show
"The beautiful village of Osmotherley above the Vale of Mowbray holds its annual show at Thimbleby each August, a hill-country gathering where the Cleveland Hills form an unbroken skyline above the ring and the sheep and cattle classes are judged with an intimacy impossible in any larger show."
Osmotherley Show
"One of the Vale of York's biggest village shows, handing out more than 120 trophies across livestock, horticulture and a different farm-animal theme each year."
Tockwith Show
"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
"In its 105th year, this show in one of the prettiest villages on the edge of the North York Moors is considered the best and friendliest traditional rural show in the locality, with livestock, crafts, produce and local food."
Thornton-le-Dale Show