Olney Pancake Race
Women in aprons and headscarves race from the market place to the church flipping pancakes, run since 1445.
A genuine small market town with one of the finest medieval spires in the region, a proper Thursday market, independent shops along one of England's widest high streets, and just enough history around Cowper, Newton and Amazing Grace to reward a deliberate visit.
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"Now in its 157th year, this one-day Buckinghamshire agricultural show at Weedon packs livestock judging, equestrian displays, stunt shows and rural craft competitions into a classic late-summer county show."
Bucks County Show
"The folk family behind sixty years of Towersey start again on the Claydon Estate, the same dances and singarounds in a new Buckinghamshire field."
Found Festival
"Organised by the community group The Olney Group, this annual display by an award-winning pyrotechnics company draws the whole market town together on the Sunday nearest bonfire night, with funfair rides and food stalls."
Olney Town Fireworks
"Americana, bluegrass and punk-folk ring out from a medieval hilltop church while the audience sips real ale or Pimms beneath a midsummer evening view."
EdleFest
"On the wide clay plateau of the Hoo Peninsula above the Thames estuary, ploughmen from across Kent compete at Newlands Farm in an autumn match where the vast skies and the distant flicker of the estuary light add a particular melancholy grandeur to the furrows."
Cliffe Ploughing Match
"The FFF&B Ploughing Society rotates its autumn competition between farms in the Cotswold Water Park country south of Burford, where the flat river gravel fields and the stone walls of the Windrush villages provide a classic setting for working horses and steel ploughs to contest the straightest furrow."
Fairford Faringdon Filkins and Burford Ploughing Match
"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
"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
"The last free games in the Highlands, where Games Day on the seaside Links feels like New Year, opened by Lord Cawdor himself."
Nairn Highland Games