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January 6 Haxley, Lincs Haxey Hood Game |
Shrove Tuesday Ashbourne, Derbys Shrovetide Festival |
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Shrove Tuesday Winster, Derbys Pancake Day Race |
Easter Monday Hallaton, Leics Bottle-kicking and Hare-pie Scramble |
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Whit Monday Enderby, Leics Selling of the Keep of the Wether |
May 29 Castleton, Derbys Garland Day |
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May to end of August Wye Dale District, Derbys Well-dressing |
First Thursday, Friday, Saturday in October Nottingham, Notts Goose Fair |
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November 23 Laxton, Notts Court Leet |
December 21 Old Bolingbroke, Lincs Candle Auction |
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Every other Sunday Castle Rising, Norfolk Bede House Procession |
February 2 Woodbridge, Suffolk Bread Dole |
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Early February King's Lynn, Norfolk Roundabout Riding |
Easter Monday Thaxted, Essex Morris Dancing |
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Whit Sunday (+ other dates) Walsingham, Norfolk Pilgramage to the Shrine |
Whit Monday (4-yearly) Dunmow, Essex Dunmow Flitch Trial |
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Late May of early June Southwold, Suffolk Trinity Fair |
June 22 Cambridge Coin Throwing at Midsummer Fair |
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Early July Tollesbury, Essex Gooseberry Fair |
Early September Southend, Essex Whitebait Festival |
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October 20 Colchester, Essex Oyster Feast |
1st Monday in December Brigthlingsea, Essex Cinque Port Deputy Election |
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February 4 (nearest Monday) St. Ives Hurling the Silver Ball |
Shrove Tuesday St. Columb Major Hurling the Silver Ball |
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May 1 Padstow 'Obby 'Os Ceremony (Morris Dancing) |
May 8 (nearest Saturday) Helston The Furry Dance |
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June 20 (Midsummer eve) Carn Brae First Bonfire in Chain Across Cornwall |
Summer Months St. Wenn and district Cornish Wrestling Championships |
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Monday after August 12 Marhamchurch Revel in honour of St. Morweena, founder of the village |
Early September Various sites Gorsedd of the Cornish Bards |
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September 25 Summercourt Cornwall's largest Fair |
End of Septemeber St. Keverne 'Crying the Neck' |
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January 17 Carhampton, Somerset Wassailing the Apple Trees |
Shrove Tuesday Corfe Castle, Dorest Street Football |
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May 1 Minehead, Somerset Hobby Horse Ceremony |
Spring Bank Holiday Monday Kingsteignton, Devon Ram Roasting Ceremony |
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Wednesday before September 20 Barnstaple, Devon Traditional Fair |
September (second Tuesday) Widecombe, Devon Pony and Sheep Fair |
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October (last Thursday) Hinton St. George, Somerset Punky Night Celebrations |
November 5 Ottery St. Mary, Devon Tar-barrel Rolling |
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November 5 Shebbear, Devon Turning the Devil's Stone |
Christmas-tide Glastonbury, Somerset Cutting the Holy Thorn |
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Christmas Eve Dunster, Somerset Burning the Ash Faggot |
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Shrove Tuesday (day before Ash Wednesday) Olney, Bucks Pancake Day Race |
Whit Tuesday St. Ives, Hunts Dicing for Bibles by local children |
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First or second Saturday in May Ickwell Green, Beds May Day Festival and Crowning of the May Queen |
June 4 Eton College, Bucks 'Speeches' and Procession of Boats on the Thames |
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June 29 (Sunday following St. Peter's Day) Wingrave, Bucks Hay Strewing in Church |
Last Monday in September Dunstable, Beds Statute Fair |
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November 11 Fenny Stratford, Bucks Firing the Fenny Poppers |
Midnight, first Sunday after November 12 Broughton, Northants Tin Can Band Parade |
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Saturday nearest St. Andrew's (Nov 30) Eton College, Bucks Wall Game |
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Daily (on request) Winchester, Hants Wayfarer's Doles at the Hospital of St. Cross |
March 25 Tichborne, Hants Tichborne Dole |
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Second Tuesday after Easter Hungerford, Berks Hocktide ceremonies in the memory of John of Gaunt |
May Day Oxford, Oxon May Carol on Magdalen Tower |
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May Day Southampton, Hants May Carol at the Bargate |
May 29 (Oak Apple Day) Great Wishford, Wilts Grovely Procession |
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Spring Bank Holiday Bampton, Oxon Morris Dancing |
Saturday nearest June 19 Abingdon, Berks Morris Dancing and Election of Ock Street Mayor |
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Monday after June 29 Yarnton, Oxon Meadow Mowing Rights and Mead Balls |
October 21 Portsmouth, Hants Trafalgar Day Ceremony |
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Early January All Islands La Grand' Querrue - Plough Festival |
Shrove Tuesday Jersey Rabbit Shooting |
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Dimanche de Brandons (1st Sunday in Lent) All Islands Fire Festival |
Good Friday All Islands Egg Rolling; limpets and gache, a local cake, are eaten |
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Midsummer Eve Jersey Fisherman row round Le Cheval Guillaume rock |
Last week in July St. Helier, Jersey Battle of Flowers |
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Throughout November Guernsey Eisteddfod Festival |
December 23 Guernsey La Longue Veille Knitting Festival |
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December 31 All Islands Log-burning to celebrate old years' passing |
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Late January Guildford, Surrey Dicing for Maids' Dole |
Early February Wotton, Surrey Forty-Shilling Day |
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Good Friday Alciston, Surrey Skipping |
Easter Monday Biddenden, Kent Bread and Cheese Dole |
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May 11 (Ascension Day and Rogationtide) Folkestone, Hastings Blessing Sea and Fisheries |
Whit Monday Charing, Kent Hooden Horse and Morris Men |
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May Rye, Sussex Scrambling for Hot Pennies |
May Newington, Kent Blessing the Cherry Orchards |
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Early June Rochester, Kent Medway Court of Admiralty |
July 25 Ebernoe, Sussex Horn Fair |
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November 5 Lewes, Sussex Guy Fawkes' Day Celebrations |
November 5 (nearest Saturday) Lamberhurst, Kent Guy Fawkes' Day Celebrations |
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November 5 Rye, Sussex Burning the Boat |
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February 3 (St. Blaise's Day) St. Ethelreda's. Ely place Blessing of the Throats |
Mid-February for three days Royal Albert Hall English Folk Dance and Song Society Festival |
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February 20 (around) St. Botolph's, Bishopgate Sir John Cass Commemoration Service |
Thursday nearest March 31 St. Clement Danes, Strand Oranges and Lemons Children's Service |
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Good Friday The Widow Son's Pub, Devons Road The Widow's Bun |
Second Saturday in May Hayes Common Merrie England May Queens' Festival |
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May 21 Tower of London Cermony of the Lilies and the Rosed to commemorate the death of Henry IV |
Thursday after July 4 Vintners' hall to Church of St. James, Garlick Hill Vintners' Procession |
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From Monday in third week of July The Thames between Blackfriars and Henley Swan-upping |
August 1 or near London Bridge to Chelsea Bridge Watermen's Race |
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August 12-14 Mitcham Mitcham Fair |
First Sunday in October St. Mary at Hill, Eastcheap Costermongers' Harvest Festival |
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Shrove Tuesday Atherstone, Warks Street Foortball |
Palm Sunday Hentland, Herefs Pax Cakes Distribution |
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Spring Bank Holiday Monday Endon, Staffs Well-Dressing |
Whit Sunday St. Briavels, Glos Bread and Cheese Dole |
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Whit Monday Cooper's Hill, Brockworth, Glos Cheese Rolling |
Whit Monday Lichfield, Staffs Court of Array and Greenhill Bower |
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May 29 Aston on Clun, Shrops Arbor Tree Day |
May 29 Worcester, Worcs Oak Apple Day at Guildhall |
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Saturday after June 24 Bromsgrove, Worcs Court Leet Procession |
Sunday after September 4 Abbots Bromley, Staffs Horn Dance |
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Sunday on or after September 19 Painswick, Glos Clipping the Church |
First Monday in October King's Norton, Warks Mop Fair |
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New Year's Eve Allendale Town, Nthld Tar-barrel burning |
Shrove Tuesday Scarborough, Yorks Ringing of the Pancake Bell and Shrovetide Skipping |
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Shrove Tuesday Sedgefield and Alnwick, Nthld Shrovetide Football |
Third Thursday in March Market Weighton, Yorks Kipling Cotes, Derby |
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Good Friday Midgley, Yorks Pace Egg Play |
Day before Ascension day (six weeks after Easter) Whitby, Yorks Planting the Penny Hedge |
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Whitsun Bank Holiday Week Holmfirth, Yorks Folk Festival (dance/music/food/entertainment) |
July 4 Whalton, Nthld Bale Fire |
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Nightly at 21.00hrs Ripon, Yorks Wakeman's Horn Blowing |
Boxing Day Sheffield, - at Grenoside and Handsworth, Yorks Sword Dancing |
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Good Friday Liverpool, Lancs Burning Judas |
Good Friday, Easter Tuesday and following Saturday Workington, Cumb Uppies and Downies |
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Easter Saturday Bacup, Lancs Nutters' Dance |
Easter Monday Preston, Lancs Egg Rolling |
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May 1 Knutsford, Cheshire May Day Ceremonies |
First Thursday in June Neston, Cheshire Club Day Procession |
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Saturday nearest July 2 Ambleside, Westmld Rushbearing Procession |
July 5 St. Johns, Isle of Man Tynwald Ceremony |
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July, date usually depending on tides Peel, Isle of Man Viking Festival |
Saturday nearest to August 5 Grasmere, Westmld Rushbearing Procession |
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Thursday nearest to August 20 Grasmere, Westmld Annual Sports |
Third Saturday in September Egremont, Cumb Crab Fair |
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About a fortnight around October 31 Antrobus and Comberbach, Cheshire Soul-Caking Play |
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Old New Year's Day (January 12) Cwm Gwaun, Pembroke Traditional Celebrations Llandysul, Cardigan Church Festival and pwnc chanting |
March 1 All Wales St. David's Day celebrations |
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Monday before Easter Anglesey Easter Egg Clapping |
First Week of July Llangollen, Denbigh International Musical Eisteddfod |
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July 31 Tenby, Pembroke St. Margaret's Fair |
First week of August Different place each year Royal National Eisteddfod |
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Saturday of week including August 19 Cilgerran, Cardigan Coracle Race |
Christmas Season Tanad Valley, Denbigh and Montgomery Welsh Carol Singing Pen-coed, Glamorgan Mari Lywd Mummers |
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January 25 Scotland generally Burns Night |
Around February 2 Jedburgh, Roxburgh Jeddart Ba' Game |
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March 1 Lanark, Lanark Whuppity Stoorie |
Second week in June Dumfries, Dunfries Festival of Good Neighbours |
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Usually third week in June Peebles, Peebles Beltane Festival |
Third week in June Melrose, Roxburgh Melrose Festival |
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Saturday in June depending on tides Cockenzie, East Lothian Children's Gala Day |
Friday and Saturday evenings, third week in June Innerleithen, Peebles Cleiking the Devil |
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Last Friday in July Langholm, Dumfries Common Riding |
Second week in August Queensferry, West Lothian The Burry man and Ferry Fair |
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Third Saturday in August Irvine, Ayr Marymass Fair |
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Last Saturday in May Drumnadrochit, Inverness Piping and Dancing |
First Friday and Saturday in June Aberfeldy,Perth Folk Festival |
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July Inverness, Inverness Durness, Sutherland Highland Games |
August Fort William, Inverness Portree, Isle of Sky, Inner Hebrides Isle of Arran, Bute Highland Games |
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Second Thursday and Friday in September Inverness, Inverness Piping Championships |
September Oban, Argyll Highland Games |
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First week in October Sites chosen each year National Gaelic Mod |
December 31 Comrie, Perth Flambeaux Procession |
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Evening of January 11 Burghead, Moray Burning the Clavie |
Saturday nearest June 12 Aberdeen Highland Games |
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Usually around June 12 Aberdeen Riding of the Marches |
Saturday in late June Dundee, Angus Highland Games |
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Usually second Saturday in July Tomintoul, Banff Highland Games |
Sunday in mid-July Aikey Brae, near Old Deer, Aberdeen Aikey Fair |
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Fourth Saturday in August Strathdon, Aberdeen Lonach Highland Gathering and Games |
Usually second week in September Braemar, Aberdeen Braemar Highland Gathering and Games |
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Evening of December 31 Stonehaven, Kincardine Swinging the Fireballs |
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Last Tuesday in January Lerwick, Mainland, Shetland Up-Helly-Aa |
A Wednesday in August St. Margaret's Hope, South Ronaldsay, Orkney Boys' Ploughing Match |
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Christmas Day and New Year's Day Kirkwall, Mainland, Orkney Ba' Game |
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