Winster Wakes Morris Dancing
Winster is one of a handful of English villages with its own unbroken Morris tradition, and on Wakes Saturday the Winster Morris Men perform their distinctive stepping dances through the village street and at the old market house, a living transmission of a tradition that has never left this limestone Peak District village.
A Peak District limestone village of genuine depth: a National Trust market house standing in the road, 70-odd listed buildings, a community shop that won a royal award, and two proper pubs make this far more rewarding than its modest size suggests.
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"Three wells dressed with intricate flower-and-clay panels anchor a full week of events in this limestone gorge village each late July, including a fell race, model boat race, treasure hunt and brass band on the village green."
Stoney Middleton Well Dressing
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Bakewell Farmers' Market
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Bonsall World Championship Hen Racing
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Bradwell Well Dressing
"Derbyshire's premier steam and heritage show on a hillside farm in the Peak District fringes, with a working plant area, military living history groups, a wall of death and over 300 years of machinery on display in a single field."
Cromford Steam Rally
"First Saturday of the month on the Memorial Gardens, with local produce, music and the steep stone streets of a former lead mining town climbing away on every side."
Wirksworth Farmers' Market
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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
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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
"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."
Shambala 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