Devon County Ploughing Championship

"A traditional one-day show on the edge of Dartmoor with livestock, horticulture and terrier racing."

Chagford Show

"The Levellers' fiercely independent family festival runs six stages with no sponsorship, a Magic Teapot, folk sessions and a different fancy-dress theme every Sunday."

Beautiful Days

"A fair running since 1888 in honour of a farmer who baked an enormous apple pie from his windfall apples, still serving apple pie and cream alongside falconry and a novelty dog show."

Marldon Apple Pie Fair

"The Dartmoor fair of the Uncle Tom Cobley song, still run on the second Tuesday of September with sheep, ponies, bale tossing and a downhill race, in a village that wears its own folk legend lightly."

Widecombe Fair

"Young world-class singers and players perform vocal and chamber music in the ancient parish churches of the Dartmoor villages around Chagford, with free entry for the under-25s."

Whiddon Autumn Festival

"A charter fair famous in Devon song, filling the stannary town's streets with stalls and rides each October."

Tavistock Goosey Fair

"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

"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

"Shin-kicking, tug of war and a torchlit procession on Dover's Hill, games first held in 1612."

Robert Dover's Cotswold Olimpicks

"Since 1612: straw in the socks, hands on each other's shoulders, and the aim is to kick shins until someone falls. Judges wear top hats."

World Shin-Kicking Championships