Handsworth Sword Dancers Boxing Day
Eight dancers in military uniform weave metre-long steel swords into a single interlocked star in an unbroken display going back over 130 years.
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"Food stalls and live music in the grounds of the longest country house facade in Europe, in the estate village of Wentworth."
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
✦ Weird and Wonderful"A screen-free family festival of wild freedom and glittering wonder where woodland glades, campfires and circus turn a Cheshire estate into a storybook."
Just So Festival
"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
"An effigy is carried through the Wensleydale village to a rhyme before being burned, origins long lost."
Burning of Old Bartle
✦ Weird and Wonderful"Over a hundred concerts plus rapper, clog and Morris teams spill through a clifftop fishing town for a full week of song, dance, shanties and storytelling."
Whitby Folk Week
"A historic East Yorkshire village spreads concerts across its Civic Hall, parish church and local pubs over the Bank Holiday weekend."
Cottingham Folk Festival
"England's only festival of medieval music fills fourteenth century Bolton Castle and its church with lute, oud and bagpipe as performers explore the forgotten margins of the medieval world."
Medieval Music in the Dales