Warwick Folk Festival
Traditional and contemporary folk fills the green fields around Warwick Castle, with morris sides, a festival choir and a fringe winding through the historic market town.
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"The 75th championship brings 250 of Britain's finest ploughmen and women to a Warwickshire farm, with steam ploughing engines, heavy horses and 300 plots across 15 classes."
British National Ploughing Championships
"Over 250 ploughmen and women compete across fifteen classes from horse teams to crawlers, with steam ploughing engines and a tank ploughing demonstration thrown in."
British National Ploughing Championships & Country Festival
"A huge leather ball is fought over along Long Street for two hours, a Shrove Tuesday game dating to 1199."
Atherstone Ball Game
✦ Weird and Wonderful"The 18th running in Shakespeare's town: real ales and ciders across two days in a setting that already draws visitors for far less interesting reasons than this."
Stratford-upon-Avon Beer and Cider Festival
"Over 330 artists open bars, barns, cafes, churches and hallways across Warwickshire and Coventry for two weeks, creating a self-guided trail through villages and towns where you can meet makers working in their own spaces."
Warwickshire Open Studios Summer Art Weeks
"A volunteer-run village carnival revived in 2023 that draws over 1,000 people to Fisher Road for a grand procession, live music, and fairground rides celebrating community spirit."
Bishop's Itchington Carnival
"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
"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
"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