Falmouth Week

"A cliff-top open-air theatre carved from Cornish granite above Porthcurno Bay, where productions from Shakespeare to musicals run each summer with the Atlantic as backdrop and Rowena Cade's extraordinary creation as the stage."

Minack Theatre Season

"The biggest steam engine rally in Cornwall brings around 70 full-size engines to Stithians Showground for three August days of steam trailer rides, threshing, wood sawing, stone crushing and a Saturday evening sheaf-pitching competition."

West of England Steam Engine Society Rally

"One of Cornwall's largest inland town carnivals, with an illuminated evening procession through the historic streets of Bodmin each August."

Bodmin Carnival

"A colourful summer carnival parade through the surf town of Bude, one of the highlights of the north Cornwall seaside summer calendar."

Bude Carnival

"A charming village carnival in the wooded Helford valley community of Constantine, keeping alive a cherished local summer tradition."

Constantine Carnival

"A packed week of boat racing, carnival processions, a Giant Pasty Ceremony, fireworks, and live music on the quayside of this beloved south Cornwall estuary town."

Fowey Royal Regatta and Carnival

"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

"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."

Devon County Ploughing Championship

"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