Ilkley Food and Drink 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.
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"A classic moorland village show under the famous Emley Moor mast, packed with prize sheep, vintage machinery and the local brass band."
Emley Show
"A neighbourhood that takes its food seriously, doing what neighbourhoods should do on the first Sunday morning of every month."
Chapel Allerton Farmers Market
"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
✦ 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"The world's largest independent cheese competition, judging entries from over 50 countries, sits at the centre of the Nantwich Show's full day of livestock, rural crafts, food and family entertainment at Reaseheath College."
Nantwich Show and International Cheese Awards
"A coastal food celebration on the Durham seafront featuring street food, cookery classes, live music, TV chefs, and locally sourced produce from across the North East."
Seaham Food Festival
"West Cumbria's biggest food weekend takes over Maryport's waterfront with a producers' market, fresh seafood stalls, chef demos with nationally known names, sea shanties and free live music across two harbourside stages."
Taste Cumbria Maryport
"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 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