Lincolnshire Show
The great flat-county show: machinery, livestock, and vast quantities of local produce under an enormous Lincolnshire sky.
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"Five thousand people explore old cabins, dilapidated buildings and woodland in a forgotten Lincolnshire village over August Bank Holiday, soundtracked by international house, techno and electronica with fire-cooked banquets in the forest."
Lost Village Festival
"A charter sheep fair held every October since 1238 in this south Lincolnshire village."
Corby Glen Sheep Fair
"One of England's finest stone towns fills its streets with stalls for its Christmas market each November, where Georgian and limestone architecture provides a festive backdrop that has been drawing visitors and film crews to Stamford for generations."
Stamford Christmas Market
"A vast rolling rugby scrum, the sway, pushes a leather hood to one of four pubs, a custom said to be 700 years old."
Haxey Hood
✦ Weird and Wonderful"A 700-year-old Lincolnshire custom where a leather tube is wrestled by hundreds of villagers toward one of four pubs, preceded by a Fool being smoked over a fire and the Lord of the Hood making proclamations in the church."
Haxey Hood Game
✦ Weird and Wonderful"A 12-acre restored Lincolnshire garden fills with carpets of snowdrops each February, drawing visitors through a yew tunnel and along the River Witham as the first winter blooms of the year emerge."
Easton Walled Gardens Snowdrop Season
"An annual one-day agricultural show in the southern Peak District gateway town of Ashbourne, celebrating local livestock, rural skills and Derbyshire farming heritage."
Ashbourne Show
"Shropshire's largest steam event, with over 1200 exhibits at Onslow Park including shire horses ploughing the working field, steam-powered cultivating, vintage tractor pulling and the famous Grand Parade set to nostalgia poetry."
Shrewsbury Steam Rally
"One of the Peak District's biggest Bank Holiday events with sheepdog trials running through to Tuesday, show jumping, heavy horses, gundogs and a food village drawing thousands to the Hope Valley in the hills."
Hope Show and Sheepdog Trials
"A much-loved annual show held on August Bank Holiday Monday in the heart of the Peak District's Hope Valley, bringing together livestock, terrier racing, fell running and rural crafts beneath the Dark Peak moorland."
Hope Valley Show
"Three days of grand ring spectacle in the 1000-acre parkland of Chatsworth House, with hot air balloon ascents, lurcher racing, celebrity chefs, country sports and a vintage fun fair against one of England's great ducal estates."
Chatsworth Country Fair
"The 75th championship brings 250 of Britain's finest ploughmen and women to a Warwickshire farm, with steam ploughing engines, heavy horses and 300 plots across 15 classes."
British National Ploughing Championships