Shambala Festival
The UK's first employee-owned festival is a seriously silly, radically sustainable, meat-free adventure in utopia set in the grounds of a Northamptonshire hall.
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"Where exceptional arts, courageous activism and open-hearted belief meet in a stately home's parkland, holding its final festival at Boughton before moving home."
Greenbelt
"A Northamptonshire village green, hundreds of competitors in silly hats, one conker on a string. The 61st running of the most earnest competition you will ever attend in a field."
World Conker Championships
Villagly Award · Toughest Nut in the UK ✦ Weird and Wonderful"At midnight on Boxing Day, a mob of villagers paraders through Broughton in Northamptonshire banging tin cans, dustbin lids and any other available metal objects to drive away a witch who is said to have terrorised the village centuries ago, a custom so relentlessly noisy and purposeful that nothing else quite like it survives in England."
Broughton Tin Can Band
✦ Weird and Wonderful"Gardens of every size open in a sandstone village beneath Harpole Hills, mixing lush tropical plantings, water features, herb gardens and lovingly tended kitchen plots."
Harpole Open Gardens
"Up to eight gardens open beside the River Ise, from small terraced plots to the sweeping grounds of Bosworth House, with a medieval church, a friendly pub and a little bridge to cross."
Arthingworth Open Gardens
"A village that has opened its gardens and decked its church with themed floral art since 1963, with over 20 plots ranging from classic cottage to lovably eccentric."
Flore Flower Festival and Open Gardens
"A well-loved Peak District village custom in the heart of the Hope Valley, where Bradwell's community gathers each August to display and bless its hand-crafted petal mosaics."
Bradwell Well Dressing
"A free and friendly folkie takeover of 13 atmospheric venues with Morris dancing, sing-arounds and an outdoor market stage across the old market town."
Melton Folk Festival
"For one Sunday the whole village of Leadenham fills with unpaid musicians, dancers and storytellers performing across indoor and outdoor stages purely as a labour of love."
Day of Lincolnshire Folk
"One of the highest-altitude well dressings in Derbyshire, Taddington's boards are dressed and displayed in a windswept limestone plateau village above the Wye Valley."
Taddington Well Dressing
"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
"Four stages of folk, world music and Americana plus a dance tent, craft fair and children's festival fill the showground of a medieval Shropshire market town."
Shrewsbury Folk Festival