Turning the Devil's Stone

"Started as a horse show and still built around the grand parade of Shires, ponies and hounds, Woolsery Show is 120 years of North Devon rural life in a single summer Monday near the dramatic Clovelly coast."

Woolsery Show

"A traditional one-day agricultural show held at Kitley Lawns each summer, a much-loved fixture on the South Devon rural calendar."

Yealmpton Show

"A week of folk music, dance and song fills this Regency seaside town and its clifftop arena."

Sidmouth Folk Festival

"A traditional one-day agricultural show run by a registered charity at Umberleigh Barton Farm, celebrating rural North Devon life with livestock, horses, and a dog show."

North Devon Show

"Now in its third decade, every stall on the Quay is run by the Devon grower or cook who made the produce, rain, shine, snow or wind."

Kingsbridge Farmers' Market

"The home of Dartmoor step dance and broom dance competitions, with ferret racing, two village pubs full of music and the late Bob Cann's broad Devon welcome."

Dartmoor Folk Festival

"The night before Christmas Eve, this impossibly pretty Cornish fishing village marks the legend of a man who braved winter storms alone to bring in a catch that saved the whole village from starvation, with lantern processions down harbour lanes and a vast stargazy pie whose fish heads gaze out through the pastry crust."

Tom Bawcock's Eve

"Mummers shrouded head to toe in newspaper strips are led by the Town Crier to perform an ancient sword-fight and resurrection play around the village."

Marshfield Paper Boys Mummers Play

"By bonfire light a crowd toasts the oldest apple tree, fires guns to scare off evil spirits and pours cider over its roots at the Butchers Arms."

Carhampton Wassail

"On the feast of St Ia, the mayor of St Ives throws a silver ball from the church wall to a waiting crowd of children who then hurl it between themselves on the beach and through the town for the morning, the last survivor of a Cornish hurling tradition that once swept across the county and is now played annually in only two places."

St Ives Hurling of the Silver Ball

"Shrove Tuesday sees the entire village of St Columb Major divide into Townsmen and Countrymen for a traditional hurling match through the streets and out across the surrounding fields, played with a solid silver ball and no rules beyond the agreement that the ball must be carried across one of two sets of goals two miles apart."

St Columb Major Hurling the Silver Ball

"Dozens of competitors hurl themselves down a near-vertical Cotswold hillside chasing a 7lb Double Gloucester cheese, a tradition that has drawn crowds to Brockworth every Spring Bank Holiday for centuries."

Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake