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"Ripon celebrates the return of St Wilfrid from Rome in 672 AD with a costumed procession through the city each August Bank Holiday Saturday, a piece of living medieval pageantry that has run continuously for well over a thousand years and remains entirely in the hands of the city's own community."
St Wilfrid Procession
"A volunteer-run, not-for-profit gathering that scatters concerts, ceilidhs, puppetry and street performance through a historic Victorian seaside town on the cliffs."
Saltburn Folk Festival
"Run by a Yorkshire transatlantic folk band, this family-friendly weekend sets transatlantic roots music among the parkland and gardens of a stately home."
The Magpies Festival
"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