Welcome to Calendar Customs!
This site aims to list the wide variety of traditional and unusual events that take place each year in the UK and to help visitors take part in them. Each event has its own page giving details of its timing and location, as well as a very brief history and notes on what to expect. Enjoy!
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Featured Stories
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Galashiels Braw Lads Gathering
Galashiels Braw Lads Gathering is a traditional Borders festival with a plethora of commemorative aspects to it. Beginning at 8am, the braw Lad recieves the Flag and leads a cavalcade…
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Tewkesbury Medieval Festival and Battle Commemoration
The Medieval Festival is one of the largest events of its kind in Europe and takes place every July in fields off Lincoln Green Lane (where part of the 1471…
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Warcop Rushbearing
Rush-strewing festivals were once common in churches countrywide to replace the floor rushes with clean new ones for the summer – few survive and Warcop is one of the places…
Averil's Picks
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Dance
Chepstow Wassail and Mari Lwyd
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Ancient Custom
Dunmow Flitch Trials
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December
Chester’s Saturnalia
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