"Five wells dressed over several days in a Peak District village above Bradford Dale, with the blessing on the Saturday afternoon, Youlgrave has one of the most technically accomplished well-dressing traditions in Derbyshire."

Youlgrave Well Dressing

"The Cathedral of the Peak presides over a week of well dressing, carnival and a torchlight procession in a high limestone village."

Tideswell Wakes Week and Well Dressing

"Four wells dressed in flowers, seeds and clay by local hands, blessed on a June Sunday afternoon, and left to fade through the week. An ancient Derbyshire custom, unchanged."

Bakewell Well Dressing

"On St Peter's Day the children of an Eden Valley village process to church in flower crowns and rush crosses, the girls crowned, the boys bearing crosses, a quiet survival of a once common rite."

Warcop Rushbearing

"Seven wells dressed in petals and natural materials across the Derbyshire spa town, blessed on a July Sunday, with a funfair on the market place and the Peak District as backdrop."

Buxton Well Dressing

"Children carry rush bearings woven into crosses and harps through Wordsworth's village to St Oswald's church, handed gingerbread at the end by the same shop that has made it for generations."

Grasmere Rushbearing

"One of the last Derbyshire wells dressed entirely in the old way with no nails or glue, just clay boards pressed petal by petal, blessed with a service and kept up for five days."

Barlow Well Dressing

"A tower of rushes twelve feet high is pulled through the Pennine villages of Saddleworth by a hundred Morris dancers from across the country, a weekend of dancing, singing, gurning and walking on the edge of the moors."

Saddleworth Rushcart Festival

"The plague village dresses its wells in late August, the same clay and petal craft as its neighbours, in a place that carries more history per cottage than almost anywhere in England."

Eyam Well Dressing

"Hop-picking made this Kentish market town. Every September the harvest reclaims the streets: real ale, folk dancing, a parade, stalls and the smell of hops in the air. Free to attend."

Faversham Hop Festival

"A sixteen foot thatched rush cart pulled by sixty men in whites and clogs winds between the pubs of the Calder Valley, morris sides dancing it from inn to inn over a September weekend."

Sowerby Bridge Rushbearing

"Six dancers carry ancient reindeer antlers, some carbon dated to the eleventh century, twelve miles around a Staffordshire village on Wakes Monday, joined by a hobby horse, a Fool and Maid Marian."

Abbots Bromley Horn Dance

"Townsfolk hoist barrels soaked in tar and set alight onto their shoulders and run them flaming through packed Devon streets on bonfire night, a roaring, slightly terrifying inheritance passed down through local families."

Ottery St Mary Tar Barrels

"At midnight on New Year's Eve forty odd guisers carry blazing barrels on their heads to a bonfire in the Northumberland market square, then turn to first foot the year in."

Allendale Tar Bar'l

"Children in elaborate horse costumes parade, then boys plough miniature furrows in the sand at the Hope."

Boys' Ploughing Match and Festival of the Horse

"Villagers claim ancient rights to gather wood, then process to Salisbury Cathedral to shout Grovely."

Grovely and Oak Apple Day

"Five wells are dressed with intricate pictures pressed in clay from flower petals, the best known of the Peak custom."

Tissington Well Dressing

"Parishioners join hands to embrace their church among the famous 99 yews of this Cotswold wool village."

Painswick Clypping Ceremony

"The congregation joins hands around the church in an embracing ceremony in this Peak lead-mining town."

Wirksworth Clypping

"Children dress and dance around an ancient hawthorn said to descend from the Glastonbury Thorn."

Bawming the Thorn

"Flour is distributed to villagers on Lady Day under a medieval bequest said to carry a curse if ever stopped."

Tichborne Dole

"Tutti-men carrying flower-topped poles call on every common-right house to collect a kiss and a coin."

Hungerford Hocktide and Tutti Day

"A week of riding the marches, crowning of the Beltane Queen and pageantry in this Tweed valley town."

Peebles Beltane Festival

"Mounted ride-outs led by the Kelso Laddie criss-cross the Borders countryside in a week of civic ceremony."

Kelso Civic Week

"Petal pictures dress the wells beside the great Peak District church known as the Cathedral of the Peak."

Tideswell Well Dressing

"Hundreds of riders follow the standard bearer round the burgh boundaries in the oldest of the Borders common ridings."

Selkirk Common Riding

"Cornet and mounted supporters ride the marches to drum and fife, commemorating a 1514 skirmish."

Hawick Common Riding

"A day of riding the marches, fair-crying and emblems of thistle and heather in this Dumfriesshire town."

Langholm Common Riding