North Somerset Ploughing Match
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.
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