International Sheepdog Championship
The most prestigious sheepdog event in the British Isles, held at the Daylesford Estate where the finest handlers from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales compete across three days for the International Supreme title.
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"Vintage biplanes drone overhead while hard driving bluegrass and old time pickers jam around a bonfire on one of the quirkiest festival fields in the country."
Didmarton Bluegrass Festival
"One of the biggest one-day shows in England, held in the Cotswolds on the first Saturday of September, Shetland Pony Grand National, champion cattle, and a showground that fills the whole town with its presence."
Moreton Show
"Traction engines, vintage vehicles and working machinery gather off the A436 near Bourton-on-the-Water for a two-day show in the Cotswold limestone uplands, the kind of event that draws real working-machinery enthusiasts rather than festival-goers and is better for it."
North Cotswold Steam and Vintage Show
"A medieval-rooted fair with onion-eating contests and the heaviest onion competition in a Forest of Dean town."
Newent Onion Fayre
"Parishioners join hands to embrace their church among the famous 99 yews of this Cotswold wool village."
Painswick Clypping Ceremony
"The world's oldest literary festival fills Cheltenham's Regency venues for ten October days with 500 events, from Booker Prize winners to children's authors, making it the essential autumn gathering for book lovers."
Cheltenham Literature Festival
"A sailing regatta with roots going back to 1837, combining competitive racing on the water with a Marching Carnival, live music, and a Pink Wig Parade ashore."
Falmouth Week
"The North Somerset Agricultural Society's ploughing and hedgelaying match brings competitors to farmland on the edge of the Mendips each September, one of the few places in England where the ancient double craft of ploughing and laying a hedge is still judged in competition on the same day."
North Somerset Ploughing Match
"Devon's county ploughing championship brings competitors to Mid Devon farmland each autumn, where red soil and deep Devon banks create the conditions for what ploughmen here consider among the most technically demanding ploughing ground in England."
Devon County Ploughing Championship
"Two August days at Bowood House bring clay shooting, falconry, lurcher racing, gun dog scurries, chainsaw speed carving and a craft village together in the grounds of a Wiltshire stately home."
Wiltshire Game and Country Fair
"Three days of the finest Welsh dogs working sheep across a hill field near Brecon, with ice cream from Llanfaes Dairy and a real trial hush over the crowd."
Welsh National Sheepdog Trials
"Massed pipe bands lead the chieftain's parade from the Bridge Hotel to Couper Park in this small fishing village on the far northeast coast."
Helmsdale and District Highland Games