World Snail Racing Championships
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.
A small, split-in-two Norfolk village with a genuinely good pub and a fine medieval flint church, but little else to detain a visitor beyond a peaceful hour.
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"A fortnight of concerts, masterclasses and ensemble music-making at Gresham's School in the Georgian market town of Holt, continuing the tradition of the renowned Dartington International Summer School in a Norfolk setting."
Music Summer School and Festival
"A full week of North Norfolk seaside pageantry crowned by the Red Arrows over the pier, a revived town-centre parade and a sandcastle competition that the whole family takes very seriously."
Cromer Carnival
"An international event (which means people from Sheringham and further afield take part) on Cromer Pier, where crabbers compete to catch the greatest number and the largest specimen in two hours, with all crabs returned to the sea to wait for next year."
World Pier Crabbing Championships
✦ Weird and Wonderful"A one-day Norfolk agricultural show at the end of August on the market town's own showground, quiet, well-organised and deeply Norfolk, in a county that does agricultural shows as well as anywhere."
Aylsham Show
"Sixty artisan producers fill the walled garden at Holkham Hall for a free September weekend market, now in its 17th year, with fresh game, bakes, chocolates, local ales and a cookery theatre in one of Norfolk's finest estate settings."
North Norfolk Food and Drink Festival
"More than 60 artisan food and drink producers from across North Norfolk gather in the spectacular Walled Garden of Holkham Hall for a two-day celebration of local produce, live cookery theatre, and street food."
North Norfolk Food 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
"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"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."
World Pea Shooting Championship
✦ 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