Thriplow Daffodil Weekend
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.
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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"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
"Celebrating its 40th year, this small friendly festival pairs a top folk line-up with real ale, morris displays and ceilidhs in the shadow of Ely's cathedral."
Ely Folk Festival
"Each August Bank Holiday, the medieval church of St Peter ad Vincula in this Essex wool town is transformed into a themed spectacle of flowers that has dazzled visitors for over three decades."
Coggeshall Flower Festival
"For its 44th year around forty gardens open across the village with brass bands, Morris dancing and a free vintage bus to ferry weary visitors between cream teas."
Walsham le Willows Open Gardens
"The whole town becomes the 1940s for a weekend, with 20,000 visitors in period dress, a vintage vehicle parade, wartime shop fronts and steam trains running the Poppy Line through to Holt."
Sheringham 1940s Weekend
"Millions of snowdrops naturalised over centuries carpet 18 acres of medieval abbey grounds in Norfolk, opening daily from the last Monday of January through the first Sunday of March."
Walsingham Abbey Snowdrops
"A dozen gardens centred on two village greens open their gates, including the listed serpentine Crinkle Crankle walled garden at Tostock Place, with homemade cakes in the churchyard tea tent."
Tostock Open Gardens
"Twenty acres of gardens and lakeside walks open around a medieval moated manor in a quiet corner of north Norfolk, with roses grown here for centuries and woodland beyond."
Mannington Estate Gardens