World Pea Shooting Championship
Witcham's village fete has crowned a world pea shooting champion since 1971, and some marksmen now fit laser sights and gyroscopes to their twelve inch tubes.
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"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
"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
"The Hertfordshire Agricultural Competitions Association's annual ploughing match takes competitors to the chalk downland north of Royston each autumn, farming country that has been intensively worked for centuries but where the ploughing match keeps the older skills in regular use."
Hertfordshire Ploughing Match
"Ampton Hall estate near Bury St Edmunds hosts a ploughing competition in the chalky boulder clay of West Suffolk each autumn, a county match that draws skilled ploughmen from across East Anglia to fields that have been arable since the Domesday Book."
Ampton Hall Ploughing Match
"Around two hundred garden snails race outward from a central circle on a damp Norfolk cloth, bred in a county that suits them, to the starter's cry of ready, steady, slow."
World Snail Racing Championships
Villagly Award · Slowest Race in the UK ✦ Weird and Wonderful"A sailing regatta with roots going back to 1837, combining competitive racing on the water with a Marching Carnival, live music, and a Pink Wig Parade ashore."
Falmouth Week
"Three days of the finest Welsh dogs working sheep across a hill field near Brecon, with ice cream from Llanfaes Dairy and a real trial hush over the crowd."
Welsh National Sheepdog Trials
"Massed pipe bands lead the chieftain's parade from the Bridge Hotel to Couper Park in this small fishing village on the far northeast coast."
Helmsdale and District Highland Games