"Two acres of snowdrops carpet the ancient Pleasure Ground Wood at a 700-year-old Marches castle each February, with optional guided tours led by the former head gardener."
Chirk Castle Snowdrops
"Twice a year the entire town of Jedburgh divides into Uppies and Doonies to contest a football match with no fixed rules, no referee and no pitch boundaries through the streets and closes of the town, a tradition said to derive from the use of an English soldier's head after a medieval border battle."
Jedburgh Ba' Game
✦ Weird and Wonderful"Founded in 1961 by a group of friends reluctant to end their New Year celebrations, this community fire festival lights up Shetland's east Mainland each February with a torchlit galley procession and squads of guizers in hand-crafted Viking costumes."
Nesting and Girlsta Up Helly Aa
"Mapperton Gardens throws open its doors each February for a series of Snowdrop Sundays, when drifts of galanthus carpet the Arboretum and Avenue of this historic West Dorset estate, offering one of the first and most atmospheric garden openings of the year."
Mapperton Snowdrop Sundays
"On the feast of St Ia, the mayor of St Ives throws a silver ball from the church wall to a waiting crowd of children who then hurl it between themselves on the beach and through the town for the morning, the last survivor of a Cornish hurling tradition that once swept across the county and is now played annually in only two places."
St Ives Hurling of the Silver Ball
✦ Weird and Wonderful"Two parishes play football across pasture below the castle, the ball piped to the field and won by carrying it home."
Alnwick Shrovetide Football
✦ Weird and Wonderful"Up'ards and Down'ards play a two-day game of football across three miles of town and river, goals set at old mills."
Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Football
✦ Weird and Wonderful"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"Women in aprons and headscarves race from the market place to the church flipping pancakes, run since 1445."
Olney Pancake Race
"A small leather ball is passed through a bull ring and fought across the village in a game over 1000 years old."
Sedgefield Shrove Tuesday Ball Game
✦ Weird and Wonderful"A 12-acre restored Lincolnshire garden fills with carpets of snowdrops each February, drawing visitors through a yew tunnel and along the River Witham as the first winter blooms of the year emerge."
Easton Walled Gardens Snowdrop Season
"Britain's first snowdrop town hosts nine days of guided snowdrop walks, open gardens, plant sales and a twilight lantern parade led by the mythical Galanthus Dragon through the streets of this ancient hilltop town."
Shaftesbury Snowdrop Festival
"Shrove Tuesday sees the entire village of St Columb Major divide into Townsmen and Countrymen for a traditional hurling match through the streets and out across the surrounding fields, played with a solid silver ball and no rules beyond the agreement that the ball must be carried across one of two sets of goals two miles apart."
St Columb Major Hurling the Silver Ball
✦ Weird and Wonderful"The home town of the Victorian Snowdrop King James Allen holds a two-day festival of specialist plant sales, workshops, art and poetry among the snowdrops he bred and planted."
Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival
"Shetland's second-oldest fire festival, held since 1911 on Britain's most northerly island, draws over 200 guizers through the dark February night before a Viking galley is set ablaze on the shore at Uyeasound."
Uyeasound Up Helly Aa