"Local children race round the parish church swinging paper balls on string to chase away winter."
Whuppity Scoorie
"Annual celebration of Wales's patron saint held in Britain's smallest city, combining a Cross Square market, community parade, cathedral concert and the Ras Dewi Sant road race."
St David's Day Festival
"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
"Flour is distributed to villagers on Lady Day under a medieval bequest said to carry a curse if ever stopped."
Tichborne Dole
"Black-faced clog dancers with wooden discs dance the length of this Pennine town every Easter Saturday."
Britannia Coco-nut Dancers
"After a hare pie is scrambled, two villages battle to carry small barrels across streams in a no-rules contest."
Hallaton Bottle Kicking and Hare Pie Scramble
✦ Weird & Wonderful"Competitors race uphill carrying a hundredweight sack of coal to the village maypole every Easter Monday."
World Coal Carrying Championships
✦ Weird & Wonderful"One of England's oldest surviving charitable customs, this Easter Monday distribution of bread, cheese, and twin-stamped biscuits from the Old Workhouse on Sissinghurst Road commemorates the legendary 12th-century conjoined Chulkhurst twins who bequeathed their land to the village poor."
Biddenden Dole