County Armagh Vintage Vehicle Club Rally

"Over 50 events across four days in the Orchard County of Northern Ireland, where the apple orchards are heavy with cider fruit and the programme runs from orchard tours and artisan markets to 5-star open-fire dining under the trees."

Armagh Food and Cider Weekend

"The second-largest park in Ireland becomes a one-day agricultural spectacle, with 20,000 visitors arriving at Lurgan Park for cattle, ponies, vintage vehicles and an energetic dog show."

Lurgan Show

"The 179th show in the orchard county returns to Gosford Forest Park, where prize cattle parade alongside apple producers, champion bakers and 30,000 visitors in one of Northern Ireland's most celebrated one-day shows."

Armagh County Agricultural Show

"The 150th anniversary Bessbrook show brings livestock, horses, home industries, a food village and a fairground to a County Armagh estate kept alive by volunteers since 1876."

Newry Agricultural Show

"Running on Bessbrook farmland since 1869, this is one of Ireland's longest unbroken agricultural shows."

Newry Show

"One of Ireland's oldest rural sports comes to the country roads of County Armagh, where competitors hurl a heavy iron bowl along miles of tarmac in the fewest throws, drawing huge roadside crowds in a tradition stretching back centuries."

Irish Road Bowling All Ireland Series

"A convoy of up to twenty coal-fired steam engines rolls through Tyrone on a summer Friday, filling Hotel Rue car park in Omagh with hissing steel and live music in one of Northern Ireland's most spectacular and unusual public spectacles."

Great Northern Road Run

"One of the last Derbyshire wells dressed entirely in the old way with no nails or glue, just clay boards pressed petal by petal, blessed with a service and kept up for five days."

Barlow Well Dressing

"The market town at the heart of the Elan Valley turns its cattle market into a gathering of vintage tractors, steam engines and working machinery each August, a show that could only happen in a part of Wales where the landscape itself feels preserved from an earlier century."

Rhayader District Vintage Show

"Children in elaborate horse costumes parade, then boys plough miniature furrows in the sand at the Hope."

Boys' Ploughing Match and Festival of the Horse

"The plague village dresses its wells in late August, the same clay and petal craft as its neighbours, in a place that carries more history per cottage than almost anywhere in England."

Eyam Well Dressing

"A tower of rushes twelve feet high is pulled through the Pennine villages of Saddleworth by a hundred Morris dancers from across the country, a weekend of dancing, singing, gurning and walking on the edge of the moors."

Saddleworth Rushcart Festival