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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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Archive for January, 2011
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![Coldstream Civic Week is a traditional borders celebration dating back to the 1950s. As well as sports, parades and fireworks, the festival is a commemorative event and the highlight of […]](https://calendarcustoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/IMG_0527-115x115.jpg "Coldstream Common Riding to Flodden Battlefield")
Coldstream Common Riding to Flodden Battlefield
Posted on January 31, 2011 | 7 CommentsColdstream Civic Week is a traditional borders celebration dating back to the 1950s. As well as sports, parades and fireworks, the festival is a commemorative event and the highlight of […] -
![This is one of only two cricket matches to appear on this list (the other is the Horn Fair at Ebernoe). Only once each year, Brambles Bank emerges from the […]](https://calendarcustoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/121-115x115.jpg "Brambles Bank Cricket Match")
Brambles Bank Cricket Match
Posted on January 31, 2011 | 10 CommentsThis is one of only two cricket matches to appear on this list (the other is the Horn Fair at Ebernoe). Only once each year, Brambles Bank emerges from the […] -
![The Totnes Elizabethan Society organise the Orange Races in commemoration of Sir Francis Drake ; legend has it that the old sea-dog dropped his basket of oranges on Fore Street […]](https://calendarcustoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/IMG_4025-115x115.jpg "Totnes Orange Races")
Totnes Orange Races
Posted on January 31, 2011 | 6 CommentsThe Totnes Elizabethan Society organise the Orange Races in commemoration of Sir Francis Drake ; legend has it that the old sea-dog dropped his basket of oranges on Fore Street […] -
![The noble art of pea-shooting is celebrated each July on the village green at Witcham in Cambridgeshire. Competitors must aim at a target one foot in diameter and surfaced with […]](https://calendarcustoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/IMG_6218-115x115.jpg "Witcham World Pea Shooting Championships")
Witcham World Pea Shooting Championships
Posted on January 31, 2011 | 1 CommentThe noble art of pea-shooting is celebrated each July on the village green at Witcham in Cambridgeshire. Competitors must aim at a target one foot in diameter and surfaced with […] -
![The streets of Ringwood in Hampshire are the setting for the annual Pedal Car Grand Prix, which attracts around forty pedal-powered competitors – the venue used to alternate with New […]](https://calendarcustoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/IMG_5517-115x115.jpeg "Ringwood Pedal Car Grand Prix")
Ringwood Pedal Car Grand Prix
Posted on January 31, 2011 | 1 CommentThe streets of Ringwood in Hampshire are the setting for the annual Pedal Car Grand Prix, which attracts around forty pedal-powered competitors – the venue used to alternate with New […] -
![Snails are prevalent in the marshy land of Norfolk, making it a natural setting for a mollusc racing event. The competition had been running (or more accurately slowly sliding) more […]](https://calendarcustoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/IMG_1352-115x115.jpg "Congham World Snail Racing Championship")
Congham World Snail Racing Championship
Posted on January 31, 2011 | 11 CommentsSnails are prevalent in the marshy land of Norfolk, making it a natural setting for a mollusc racing event. The competition had been running (or more accurately slowly sliding) more […] -
![Other wheelie-bin races exist but this is one of the best-known in the UK and is a well established part of the local calendar. Teams of four drink beer and […]](https://calendarcustoms.com/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "Hernhill Three Horseshoes Wheelie Bin Race")
Hernhill Three Horseshoes Wheelie Bin Race
Posted on January 31, 2011 | 8 CommentsOther wheelie-bin races exist but this is one of the best-known in the UK and is a well established part of the local calendar. Teams of four drink beer and […] -
![The Barley Mow pub carpark is the setting for Bonsall’s annual competition; hens must race over a thirty-foot course in heats which culminate in a grand final. Fastest to date […]](https://calendarcustoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/IMG_9102-115x115.jpg "Bonsall Hen Races")
Bonsall Hen Races
Posted on January 31, 2011 | 4 CommentsThe Barley Mow pub carpark is the setting for Bonsall’s annual competition; hens must race over a thirty-foot course in heats which culminate in a grand final. Fastest to date […] -
![Competitors in the annual Walking the Plank Championships had to perform to the crowd before jumping from the Salty Sea Pig, a ship moored in Queenborough Harbour crewed by a […]](https://calendarcustoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Walking-the-Plank-115x115.jpg "World Walking the Plank Championships")
World Walking the Plank Championships
Posted on January 31, 2011 | No CommentsCompetitors in the annual Walking the Plank Championships had to perform to the crowd before jumping from the Salty Sea Pig, a ship moored in Queenborough Harbour crewed by a […] -
![The Straw Race at Oxenhope is a charity fundraising event in which teams race a two-and-a-half mile course from the Wagon and Horses carrying a bale of straw. Teams are […]](https://calendarcustoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/IMG_1225-115x115.jpg "Oxenhope Straw Race")
Oxenhope Straw Race
Posted on January 31, 2011 | 2 CommentsThe Straw Race at Oxenhope is a charity fundraising event in which teams race a two-and-a-half mile course from the Wagon and Horses carrying a bale of straw. Teams are […]