Easton Walled Gardens Snowdrop Season

"Five thousand people explore old cabins, dilapidated buildings and woodland in a forgotten Lincolnshire village over August Bank Holiday, soundtracked by international house, techno and electronica with fire-cooked banquets in the forest."

Lost Village Festival

"A charter sheep fair held every October since 1238 in this south Lincolnshire village."

Corby Glen Sheep Fair

"One of England's finest stone towns fills its streets with stalls for its Christmas market each November, where Georgian and limestone architecture provides a festive backdrop that has been drawing visitors and film crews to Stamford for generations."

Stamford Christmas Market

"A vast rolling rugby scrum, the sway, pushes a leather hood to one of four pubs, a custom said to be 700 years old."

Haxey Hood

"A 700-year-old Lincolnshire custom where a leather tube is wrestled by hundreds of villagers toward one of four pubs, preceded by a Fool being smoked over a fire and the Lord of the Hood making proclamations in the church."

Haxey Hood Game

"A revival of Spalding's tulip-country tradition dating to 1959, where volunteer-built floats covered in thousands of fresh tulip heads parade 2.94 miles through the town accompanied by marching bands and entertainers."

Spalding Flower Parade

"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 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

"One of Derbyshire's most tranquil well dressings appears in this small hamlet near Miller's Dale each August, where the petal-and-clay panel stands in one of the quietest and most beautiful corners of the White Peak."

Wormhill Well Dressing

"A Cotswold-edge fete with a home produce competition, welly wanging and a prize-winning cider bar runs alongside three days of fabulous flower displays adorning the village church."

Childswickham Village Fete and Flower Festival

"Built around a duck pond, a medieval cross and a bull ring, Foolow is the quintessential Peak District village and its well dressings in late August draw visitors who discover what the White Peak looks like when nobody planned a car park for it."

Foolow Well Dressing

"Six dancers carry ancient reindeer antlers, some carbon dated to the eleventh century, twelve miles around a Staffordshire village on Wakes Monday, joined by a hobby horse, a Fool and Maid Marian."

Abbots Bromley Horn Dance