Great British Food Festival, Wentworth Woodhouse

"The Pennine market town of Penistone holds one of the oldest agricultural shows in Yorkshire each September, a show where the Millstone Grit country of the South Yorkshire uplands meets the farming traditions of the Pennine Edge, and where the sheep classes include breeds that have grazed these hills since the medieval wool trade."

Penistone Agricultural Show

"Clog-wearing longsword dancers ritually behead their captain with a lock of interwoven blades outside the village pub at eleven sharp."

Grenoside Sword Dance

"Eight dancers in military uniform weave metre-long steel swords into a single interlocked star in an unbroken display going back over 130 years."

Handsworth Sword Dancers Boxing Day

"The Victorian clifftop resort of Saltburn closes its main street to traffic and fills it with artisan food producers from across the North East for this September market, where the restored pier and the cliff tramway form an extraordinary backdrop to a genuinely local food event with no national chains in sight."

Saltburn Food Festival

"For ten September days, Parliament Street and the surrounding streets of historic York fill with over 150 food and drink producers, chef demonstrations, artisan markets, pop-up restaurants and tastings celebrating Yorkshire produce."

York Food and Drink Festival

"Cockermouth's flagship food and drink festival fills the market town where Wordsworth was born with Cumbrian produce, chef demonstrations, artisan stalls and live music each September."

Taste Cumbria Cockermouth

"Ten days of cheese trails, farm tastings, guided walks with cheesemakers and special menus spread across every village and dale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, celebrating the artisan producers behind Wensleydale, Swaledale and more."

Yorkshire Dales Cheese Festival

"East Holmes Field beside the River Wharfe hosts this seventh-year festival that draws artisan food and drink producers from across Yorkshire into the spa town at the foot of the moor, with cookery demonstrations, live music and the kind of local cheese and charcuterie lineup that needs two days to properly work through."

Ilkley Food and Drink Festival

"Twenty-five acoustic acts from folk to blues fill the pubs and barns of Dentdale across a long June weekend, washed down with locally crafted and Scottish ales in one of the most remote and beautiful limestone valleys in the Yorkshire Dales."

Dentdale Music and Beer Festival