"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
"Local children race round the parish church swinging paper balls on string to chase away winter."
Whuppity Scoorie
"Set in the New Forest on the banks of the Beaulieu River, this Grade II* listed 200-acre woodland garden bursts each spring with the Rothschild collection of rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias, all accessible by a narrow-gauge steam railway."
Exbury Gardens Spring Season
"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
"Each spring, wild Narcissus pseudonarcissus carpets a seven-mile stretch of the River Dove in Farndale Nature Reserve, drawing up to 40,000 visitors to a dale with a resident population of around 200."
Farndale Daffodil Walk
"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
"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
"Competitors race uphill carrying a hundredweight sack of coal to the village maypole every Easter Monday."
World Coal Carrying Championships
✦ Weird and Wonderful"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 and Wonderful