Mid-Wales 4 Day Walking Festival
Four days of self-guided walks through some of Britain's finest scenery, ending with a Blister Ball of live music and dancing.
Britain's smallest town punches well above its weight: a working on-site brewery, a genuine calendar of eccentric community events, a cafe and a real pub make it a rewarding and oddly spirited destination for anyone willing to seek it out.
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"A market town show in the Brecon Beacons foothills that has been bringing Welsh Black cattle and mountain ponies into the ring since the 19th century, surrounded by mountains on every side."
Brecon County Show
"The Montgomeryshire hill farming community gathers in a small Powys market town for one of Mid Wales's most compact and friendly one-day agricultural shows."
Llanfyllin Show
"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
"The market town at the heart of the Elan Valley turns its cattle market into a gathering of vintage tractors, steam engines and working machinery each August, a show that could only happen in a part of Wales where the landscape itself feels preserved from an earlier century."
Rhayader District Vintage Show
"A leisurely ride through mid-Wales hills where every checkpoint hands you cider and perry, capped by a BBQ and free live music in town."
Summer Cider Cycle
✦ Weird and Wonderful"Teams of two mountain bikers tow a charioteer in a Roman-style chariot in a flat-out dash for the world title."
World Mountain Bike Chariot Racing Championship
✦ Weird and Wonderful"One of the biggest prize race meetings of its kind in the UK, three days of flat-out trotting and pacing on a grass track in mid-Wales where the sport has deep roots, with sulkies rattling past the spectators at very close quarters."
Tregaron Festival of Harness Racing
"Ploughmen from across Monmouthshire turn up to a rotating farm venue each October for their county match, a competition held in the border country between Wales and England where the hedged fields and red Hereford cattle still look much as they always have."
Monmouthshire Ploughing Match
"Caber-tossing and Highland dancing come to the Alice Littler Memorial Park in the heart of Speyside whisky country."
Aberlour Strathspey Highland Games
"One of Ireland's oldest rural sports comes to the country roads of County Armagh, where competitors hurl a heavy iron bowl along miles of tarmac in the fewest throws, drawing huge roadside crowds in a tradition stretching back centuries."
Irish Road Bowling All Ireland Series
"The 225th running: the Egton Bridge Old Gooseberry Society meets in a North York Moors village to weigh berries that have been grown in secret since March, and the champion is measured in drams, not centimetres."
Egton Bridge Old Gooseberry Show
✦ Weird and Wonderful"Athletes race up Sron a'Chlachain in a punishing hill race while pipers march over the Falls of Dochart bridge at the western end of Loch Tay."
Killin Highland Games