World Coal Carrying Championships

"A full Wharfedale country show with livestock, horticultural classes, showjumping and local food, run by the Arthington, Bramhope, Pool and District Society since 1906 at the gateway to the Dales."

Arthington Show

"The Calder Valley town of Mirfield holds its annual show at the Huddersfield Road showground each late August, a West Yorkshire agricultural and horticultural show that has been running continuously for well over a century in a part of the county where the textile mill towns and the farming country meet."

Mirfield Show

"Every first September weekend, the hilltop village of Norland transforms via a self-guided trail through narrow lanes and gardens, with villagers creating hundreds of characters on this year's Sports, Leisure and Games theme, all raising money for local causes."

Norland Scarecrow Festival

"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

"A 35 year old festival that scatters concerts and slow sessions for beginners between a parish church, the common and snug pub back rooms in a Wharfedale market town."

Otley Folk Festival

"A not-for-profit community festival now in its fifth decade, it fills almost every pub, hall and cobbled street in Holmfirth with concerts, singarounds, ceilidhs, morris dancing and family workshops across a single weekend each May."

Holmfirth Festival of Folk

"Competitors lob black puddings underarm at a stack of Yorkshire puddings on a plinth, settling an old rivalry."

World Black Pudding Throwing Championships

"Through October and into November, the medieval Rufford Old Hall fills its grounds with scarecrows on a pop stars and music legends theme, making it one of the grandest and longest-running Halloween-season scarecrow trails in England."

Rufford Old Hall Scarecrow Festival

"Decorated beds on wheels race through the North Yorkshire market town on the second Saturday in June, crossing the River Nidd in 2026's Swinging Sixties edition, in one of England's most eccentric and joyful annual spectacles."

Great Knaresborough Bed Race

"A three-day seaside spectacle in the tiny village of Seaview complete with a greasy pole over the sea, tug of war, swimming races, diving and a fireworks display over the Solent."

Seaview Village Regatta

"Competitors snorkel two lengths of a peat bog trench without conventional swimming strokes, in Britain's smallest town."

World Bog Snorkelling Championships

"An international event (which means people from Sheringham and further afield take part) on Cromer Pier, where crabbers compete to catch the greatest number and the largest specimen in two hours, with all crabs returned to the sea to wait for next year."

World Pier Crabbing Championships