Downham Village Hall Bonfire and Fireworks
The estate village of Downham, preserved virtually unchanged since the 1950s with no TV aerials or modern signage, hosts its cherished annual bonfire and fireworks display on the village hall field on Guy Fawkes Night.
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"More than 70 scarecrows on a single themed trail wind through a Pendle Hill village each August Bank Holiday, with hot food, children's quizzes and a raffle raising funds for the local hall and church."
Higham Scarecrow Festival
"Grown adults in fancy dress grapple for two minutes in a pool of cold Lancashire gravy on August bank holiday, scored as much on showmanship as on pins, all for the local hospice."
World Gravy Wrestling Championships
Villagly Award · Messiest in the UK ✦ Weird and Wonderful"A traditional agricultural show hosted in turn by the farming families of Dunsop Bridge, Newton-in-Bowland and Slaidburn so no two years are the same, set deep in the Forest of Bowland AONB."
Hodder Valley Show
"Two days of countryside life at a Ribble Valley village showground, with Vale of Lune Harriers in the main ring, gundog scurries, birds of prey, horse classes and live music drawing families from across the North West."
Lancashire Game and Country Festival
"A relaxed charity festival run for a historic village institute near Bolton where every artist gives their time free so all the proceeds support the Barlow."
Edgworth Folk Festival
"The Lancashire ploughing society's annual match brings competitors to the Ribble Valley farmland each October where the Bowland fells rise to the north and the fields are some of the oldest continuously ploughed in Lancashire."
Lancashire Ploughing Society Match
"Ripon celebrates the return of St Wilfrid from Rome in 672 AD with a costumed procession through the city each August Bank Holiday Saturday, a piece of living medieval pageantry that has run continuously for well over a thousand years and remains entirely in the hands of the city's own community."
St Wilfrid Procession
"A volunteer-run, not-for-profit gathering that scatters concerts, ceilidhs, puppetry and street performance through a historic Victorian seaside town on the cliffs."
Saltburn Folk Festival
"Run by a Yorkshire transatlantic folk band, this family-friendly weekend sets transatlantic roots music among the parkland and gardens of a stately home."
The Magpies Festival
"A screen-free family festival of wild freedom and glittering wonder where woodland glades, campfires and circus turn a Cheshire estate into a storybook."
Just So Festival
"One of England's most singular calendar customs, this centuries-old West Witton rite sees a chanting crowd carry a glowing-eyed effigy of 'Bartle' through the village at nightfall before stabbing and burning him on the hillside above Wensleydale."
Burning Bartle
"An effigy is carried through the Wensleydale village to a rhyme before being burned, origins long lost."
Burning of Old Bartle
✦ Weird and Wonderful