Farndale Daffodil Walk
Each spring, wild Narcissus pseudonarcissus carpets a seven-mile stretch of the River Dove in Farndale Nature Reserve, drawing up to 40,000 visitors to a dale with a resident population of around 200.
A deeply rural moorland valley with no bus, no station, and barely 160 residents, but a proper estate pub with a CAMRA award, a reopened village store, a seasonal cafe, and a spring daffodil spectacle that draws tens of thousands: go in late March and the walk along the River Dove earns every mile.
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"For nine days every August this Wharfedale village fills its gardens, walls and doorways with handmade scarecrows, and half the fun is the treasure hunt of finding them all."
Kettlewell Scarecrow Festival
✦ Weird and Wonderful"Founded in 1871 and held in the Milburn Arms Field in the tranquil valley village of Rosedale Abbey, this long-running show features foxhound and terrier shows, gundog displays, terrier races, hound trails, and a gymkhana."
Rosedale and District Show
"Founded in 1871, this intimate show at Milburn Arms Field in the heart of Rosedale Abbey showcases heavy horses, cattle, goats, vintage tractors and local produce against the backdrop of a former ironstone mining valley."
Rosedale Show
"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
"Held in the grounds of Eshton Hall near Skipton, this traditional Dales show blends livestock and horticulture classes with show jumping, sheepdog trials and fell running."
Gargrave Agricultural and Horticultural Show
"Held in the grounds of Eshton Hall in a Dales village near Skipton, the Gargrave Show has cattle, sheep, showjumping and a fell race, a cornerstone of local tradition since the Victorian era."
Gargrave Show
"A tower of rushes twelve feet high is pulled through the Pennine villages of Saddleworth by a hundred Morris dancers from across the country, a weekend of dancing, singing, gurning and walking on the edge of the moors."
Saddleworth Rushcart Festival
✦ Weird and Wonderful"A sixteen foot thatched rush cart pulled by sixty men in whites and clogs winds between the pubs of the Calder Valley, morris sides dancing it from inn to inn over a September weekend."
Sowerby Bridge Rushbearing
✦ Weird and Wonderful"At midnight on New Year's Eve forty odd guisers carry blazing barrels on their heads to a bonfire in the Northumberland market square, then turn to first foot the year in."
Allendale Tar Bar'l
✦ Weird and Wonderful"Children dress and dance around an ancient hawthorn said to descend from the Glastonbury Thorn."
Bawming the Thorn
"A full-day celebration at Windermere Jetty Museum honouring the heritage and traditional boating culture of England's largest lake, exploring the many ways communities have connected with Windermere across the centuries."
Festival of the Lake
"On St Peter's Day the children of an Eden Valley village process to church in flower crowns and rush crosses, the girls crowned, the boys bearing crosses, a quiet survival of a once common rite."
Warcop Rushbearing