Devon County Ploughing Championship
Devon's county ploughing championship brings competitors to Mid Devon farmland each autumn, where red soil and deep Devon banks create the conditions for what ploughmen here consider among the most technically demanding ploughing ground in England.
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"Started as a horse show and still built around the grand parade of Shires, ponies and hounds, Woolsery Show is 120 years of North Devon rural life in a single summer Monday near the dramatic Clovelly coast."
Woolsery Show
"A traditional one-day agricultural show held at Kitley Lawns each summer, a much-loved fixture on the South Devon rural calendar."
Yealmpton Show
"A week of folk music, dance and song fills this Regency seaside town and its clifftop arena."
Sidmouth Folk Festival
"A traditional one-day agricultural show run by a registered charity at Umberleigh Barton Farm, celebrating rural North Devon life with livestock, horses, and a dog show."
North Devon Show
"Now in its third decade, every stall on the Quay is run by the Devon grower or cook who made the produce, rain, shine, snow or wind."
Kingsbridge Farmers' Market
"The home of Dartmoor step dance and broom dance competitions, with ferret racing, two village pubs full of music and the late Bob Cann's broad Devon welcome."
Dartmoor Folk Festival
"A sailing regatta with roots going back to 1837, combining competitive racing on the water with a Marching Carnival, live music, and a Pink Wig Parade ashore."
Falmouth Week
"Two August days at Bowood House bring clay shooting, falconry, lurcher racing, gun dog scurries, chainsaw speed carving and a craft village together in the grounds of a Wiltshire stately home."
Wiltshire Game and Country Fair
"The most prestigious sheepdog event in the British Isles, held at the Daylesford Estate where the finest handlers from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales compete across three days for the International Supreme title."
International Sheepdog Championship
"The North Somerset Agricultural Society's ploughing and hedgelaying match brings competitors to farmland on the edge of the Mendips each September, one of the few places in England where the ancient double craft of ploughing and laying a hedge is still judged in competition on the same day."
North Somerset Ploughing Match
"Runners carry heavy woolsacks up and down the one-in-four Gumstool Hill, recalling the Cotswold wool trade."
Tetbury Woolsack Races
✦ Weird and Wonderful"Shin-kicking, tug of war and a torchlit procession on Dover's Hill, games first held in 1612."
Robert Dover's Cotswold Olimpicks
✦ Weird and Wonderful