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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Archive for January, 2019
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![Edwardtide is the annual remembrance of St Edward the Confessor, King of England. Ittakes place around October 13th, the date of the translation of his body to its current resting […]](https://calendarcustoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/IMG_7274-115x115.jpeg "London Edwardtide")
London Edwardtide
Posted on January 4, 2019 | 1 CommentEdwardtide is the annual remembrance of St Edward the Confessor, King of England. Ittakes place around October 13th, the date of the translation of his body to its current resting […] -
![Every May Day Bank Holiday Monday a colourful procession wends its way through the neighbouring villages of Millbrook, Kingsand and Cawsand in Cornwall, accompanying a flower bedecked model boat named […]](https://calendarcustoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/IMG_4645-115x115.jpeg "Millbrook, Kingsand & Cawsand Black Prince Flower Boat Procession")
Millbrook, Kingsand & Cawsand Black Prince Flower Boat Procession
Posted on January 4, 2019 | 2 CommentsEvery May Day Bank Holiday Monday a colourful procession wends its way through the neighbouring villages of Millbrook, Kingsand and Cawsand in Cornwall, accompanying a flower bedecked model boat named […] -
![A Quit Rent is the process of avoiding a monetary rental payment by offering an alternative. In what is believed to be the oldest legal ceremony in England apart from […]](https://calendarcustoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/IMG_7168-115x115.jpeg "London Quit Rents Ceremony")
London Quit Rents Ceremony
Posted on January 4, 2019 | 4 CommentsA Quit Rent is the process of avoiding a monetary rental payment by offering an alternative. In what is believed to be the oldest legal ceremony in England apart from […]