St Ives Carnival and Music Festival
The handsome Cambridgeshire market town on the Great Ouse holds its carnival and music festival in Hill Rise Park each July, a free weekend of live music, community floats and street entertainment in a town whose wide quayside and medieval bridge have been drawing people to the water since the Norman Conquest.
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"The original. Outdoor stages, Cherry Hinton Hall, world-class folk since 1965. The standard everything else is quietly measured against."
Cambridge Folk Festival
"Sawston Parish Council's annual community bonfire and fireworks display at Huckeridge Hill raises funds for local charities through a volunteer bucket collection, keeping this Cambridgeshire village tradition alive each autumn."
Sawston Village Bonfire and Fireworks
"A man hidden under five stone of twisted straw dances through a Fenland town leading molly and clog sides, before the bear is ceremonially burned the next day."
Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival
✦ Weird and Wonderful"A supersize village fete run by 400 volunteers fills the lanes with daffodils, a working blacksmith's forge, Morris dancers, heavy-horse dray rides and live music for a springtime charity celebration."
Thriplow Daffodil Weekend
"Teams roll wooden cheeses down the old Great North Road in the village that gave the cheese its name."
Stilton Cheese Rolling
✦ Weird and Wonderful"An evening of concerts at the United Reformed Church is followed by a day of morris and clog dance winding through this riverside market town."
St Neots Folk Festival
"Over a century old and still packing the quayside with parade floats, a town crier contest, gillying competitions and the most celebrated sandcastle battle in North Norfolk."
Wells Carnival
"From Crowning Day to the main parade, Sheringham gives itself over for a week to duck racing, sandcastle contests and floats that bring out every family on the North Norfolk coast."
Sheringham Carnival
"Suffolk's award-winning seaside carnival fills the shingle beach town of Aldeburgh across a summer Bank Holiday weekend, with a procession, 10K Mini Marathon, community events and the particular magic of carnival lights on the North Sea."
Aldeburgh Carnival
"402 years old and still going: the parade winds through the market town to the riverside quay for a weekend of live music, a fun dog show and genuine community spirit."
Beccles Carnival
"A full week of North Norfolk seaside pageantry crowned by the Red Arrows over the pier, a revived town-centre parade and a sandcastle competition that the whole family takes very seriously."
Cromer Carnival
"West Mersea Island has held its town regatta since 1838 and the August event on the Blackwater estuary combines sailing races with watersports and a fireworks finale, an evening on an island famous for its oysters where the Essex marshes glow gold in the late summer light."
West Mersea Town Regatta