;United Kingdom-events
;events in the United Kingdom
;only folkloric or hyper-special events, or events with a high international reputation
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IMAGE=Holiday_UnitedKingdom2-e.gif
COMMENT=Updated 4 January 2014

MOVE=Always

Es-8Tu =Kent, Holly Boy* ;Note=Tuesday before Shrove Tuesday {e}
Es-7Tu =Olney, #1444th pancake race (11:55)** ;Note=since 1445 {e}
ES-7Tu =Sedgefield, Ball Game/Mob Football* ;Note=Shrove Tuesday {e}
Es-7Tu =St. Columb Major, 1st game of hurling (16:30)* ;Note=2nd & last game in 11 days {e}
ES-7Tu =Ashbourne, 1st day Royal Shrovetide Football Match (14>22:00, 2d) ;Note=Shrove Tuesday {e}
ES-7Tu =Clovelly, Lentsherd* ;Note={e}
Es-7We =Ashbourne, 2nd & last day Royal Shrovetide Football Match (14>22:00) ;Note=Ash Wednesday {e}
Es-6Sa =St. Columb Major, 2nd & last game of hurling (16:30)* ;Note=1st game on Shrove Tuesday {e}
Es-2Sa =Bury, Pace Eggers* ;Note=Good Friday {e}
Es-2Dy =Ashton-under-Lyne, Daisy Nook Easter Fair* ;Note=Good Friday {e}
Es-2Dy =Bury-Holcombe Hill, Egg rolling* ;Note=Good Friday {e}
Es-2Dy =Conisbrough, 'Tittlecock' Fair* ;Note=Good Friday {e}
Es-1Dy =Bacup, Nutters Dance (09:00)* ;Note=Easter Saturday {e}
Es+1Dy =Hallaton, Bottle Kicking* ;Note=Easter Monday {e}
Es+2Tu =Hungerford, Hocktide Celebrations* ;Note={e}
Es+6We =Whitby, Penny Hedge* ;Note={e}
Es+6Th =Bisley, Well Dressing* ;Note=1st 1863, Ascension Day {e}
Es+6Th =Tissington, Well Dressing Day ;Note=Ascension Day {e}

Es+8Su =St. Braivels, Bread and cheese throwing* ;Note=Whit Sunday {e}
Es+8Tu =St. Ives, Dicing for Bibles* ;Note=Whit Tuesday {e}

01.1.>1986 =London, #1986th New Year's Day Parade (12>15:00) ;Note=1st 1987, West End {d}
01.1. =Symondsbury, Mummers Play* ;Note=outside the Ilchester Arms {d}
01.1. =Huddersfield, Kirkburton Rapier Dancers* ;Note={d}
01.1. =Orkney, Ba' game* ;Note=also on Christmas Day {d}
01.1. =Schotland-South Queensferry, Loony Dook ;Note={d}
06.1.*Nld =Haxey, Haxey Hood Game (kind of rugby football game)* ;Note=when Sunday >Saturday {d}
06.1. =London-Drury Lane Theatre, Baddeley Cake* ;Note={d}
11.1. =Scotland-Burghead, Burning of the Clavie (tar barrel, Auld New Year)* ;Note=newyear Jul. Cal. in 1660 {d}
31.1.-1Tu =Shetland, Lerwick Up Helly Aa, Fire Festival, Torchlight Procession* ;Note=last Tuesday January {m}

02.2. =Jedburgh Ba' Game* ;Note=Candlemas {d}
03.2. =London-St. Etheldreda's Church, Blessing the Throats* ;Note=St Blaise's day {d}
04.2.+1Mo =St. Ives, Feast Monday, Hurling the silver ball (10:30>12:00) ;Note=Monday after St.Ives (03.2.) {m}
22.2.-3Dy+1Sa =London-Westminster, Baden-Powell Memorial Service* ;Note=Saturday closest to 22.2. {m}

01.1.+11Su-4Dy =National No Smoking Day ;Note=Wednesday before the 11th Sunday/year {x}

01.3.+3Th =South Dalton-Noon, Kiplingcotes Derby* ;Note=dating from 1119 {m}
18.3.-1Su>2001 =London, #2001th St. Patrick's Day Festival & Parade (12:00)* ;Note=Trafalgar Square, Leicester Square & Covent Garden, 1st 2002 {m}
25.3.  =England-Alresford, #1149th ‘The Tichborne Dole’* ;Note=since 1150 {d}
;31.3.%1989,2-3Fr =#1985,2th Red Nose Day (fund raising, unpair years) ;Note=3th last Friday March {x} >days

14.4. =Sussex, first Cuckoo day* ;Note=St. Tiburtius' Day {d}
23.4.-3Dy+1Su =Scouting, Saint George's Day Parade ;Note=patron saint scouting, Sunday closest to 23.4. {m}
28.4.-3Dy+1Su =Towednack, Cuckoo Feast* ;Note=Sunday nearest 28th April {d-04-28}


01.5.+1We =Exford, Pony Stallion Parade* ;Note={m}
01.5.+1Sa =Cheshire, Knutsford Royal May Day* ;Note={m}
01.5.+1Sa =Malvern, May Day Celebration Worcs* ;Note={m}
01.5.+1Su =Festival of Popinjay* ;Note=1st sunday may {m}
01.5.+1Su =Randwick, Randwick Wap, Cheese Rolling* ;Note=1st Sunday May {m}
01.5.+1Su =Smithton, Pilgrimage to St Mary’s Well* ;Note=1st Sunday May {m}
01.5.+2Su =Richmond upon Thames-Bushy Park, Chestnut Sunday* ;Note={m}
08.5.*She =Helston, Furry Dance (07>17:00) ;Note=if Sunday or Monday >Saturday before {d}
09.5.-3Dy+1Sa =London-St. Pauls, 'Punch's Birthday' (puppets/puppeteers)* ;Note=Saturday nearest to 09.5. {d-05-09}
12.5.-3Dy+1Th =Stow on the Wold, Horse sale* ;Note=chartered in 1476 by King Edward IV {d-05-12}
13.5.+1Su-3Dy>1942 =1st day #1942th Royal Windsor Horse Show (4d)
13.5.+1Su-2Dy>1942 =2nd day #1942th Royal Windsor Horse Show (4d)
13.5.+1Su-1Dy>1942 =3th day #1942th Royal Windsor Horse Show (4d)
13.5.+1Su>1942     =4th & last day #1942th Royal Windsor Horse Show ;Note=Sunday on or after 13.5. {x}
13.5. =Abbotsbury, Abbotsbury Garland Day* ;Note={d}
25.5.-3Dy+1Fr =Jarrow-St Paul's Church, Jarrow Lecture* ;Note=Friday nearest Bede's Day {d-05-25}
29.5.*NLD =Castleton, Garland Day* ;Note=if Sunday >Saturday {d-05-29}
29.5. =Aston on Clun, Arbor Day* ;Note=yearly since 1786 {d}
31.5.-1Mo =Brockworth, Cheese rolling* ;Note=Late Spring Bank Holiday {m}
31.5.-1Mo =Devonshire-Kingsteignton, Ram Roasting Fair* ;Note=was Whit-Tuesday, 1950s >Whit-Monday, later >Spring Bank Holiday {m}
31.5.-1Mo+1We =Middlesex, Pinner Fair* ;Note=originally Wednesday after Whit Sunday {m-05}
31.5.-1Mo+1Fr>1965 =Chipping Campden, Cotswold Olimpick Games* ;Note=Friday after Spring Bank Holiday (! 1st off. Spring Bank Holiday 1971, >?date 1966>1970) {m}
31.5.%1801,3-1Mo+1Tu =Barwick, Maypole is traditionally raised* ;Note=every three years {m-05}

01.6.+3Sa =Appleton Thorn, Bawming the Thorn* ;Note={m}
01.6.+3Sa =Seer Green, Cherry Pie Fair & Village Day* ;Note={m}
10.6.-2Sa =London, 1st rehearsal ‘Trooping the Colour’ ;Note=Saturday 2 weeks before ‘Trooping the Colour’ {m}
10.6.-1Sa =London, 2nd rehearsal ‘Trooping the Colour’ ;Note=Saturday before ‘Trooping the Colour’ {m}
11.6.+1Sa =London, Trooping the Colour (11:00, since 1748, #1748 years ago) ;Note=Saturday on or after 11.6. {xm}
11.6.+1Sa+1Mo =Windsor, #1347th procession & investure ‘The Most Noble Order of the Garter’ ** ;Note=Monday after ‘Trooping the Colour’ {xm}
14.6.+1Tu     =Ascot, 1st day #1767th Royal Ascot Racecourse (5d) ;Note=Tuesday after 13.6., 4>5 days in 2002 {dx}
14.6.+1Tu+4Dy =Ascot, 5th & last day #1767th Royal Ascot Racecourse ;Note=1st 4-days in 1768, 1st race in 1711, 1e 5-days 2002 {dx}
21.6.-3Dy+1Fr =Ashmore, Filly Loo* ;Note=Friday near June 21st {d-06-21}
23.6.  =Cornwall, Midsummer Bonfires* ;Note=Eve of St John's Day {d}
29.6.*NLD =Warcop-St Columba's Church, Rushbearing* ;Note=if Sunday >Saturday {d-06-29}

01.1.+27Su-4Dy =Henley-on-Thames, 1st day #1850th Henley Royal Regatta (we>su) ;Note=#1838e Henley Regatta, since 1839, Royal since 1851
01.1.+27Su     =Henley-on-Thames, 5th & last day #1850th Henley Royal Regatta (we>su) ;Note=#1838e Henley Regatta, since 1839, Royal since 1851, 27th Sunday/year {x}

01.7.+1Mo+1Th =1st day Hampton Court Palace Flower Show (public Thursday>Sunday) ;Note=Thursday 1st week July beginning Monday {xm}
01.7.+1Mo+1Su =4th & last day Hampton Court Palace Flower Show (public Thursday>Sunday) ;Note=Sunday 1st week July beginning Monday {xm}
01.7.+1Sa =Ambleside-St Mary's Church, Rushbearing* ;Note={m}
01.7.+1Sa =Great Musgrave-St Theobold's Church, Rushbearing* ;Note={m}
01.7.+2Sa =Thames, Swan Upping* ;Note=Sunbury, Surrey >Abingdon Bridge, Oxon {m}
01.7.+1Sa>1966<1991 =Bristol, #1966th St. Pauls Festival ;Note=1st 1967, 1991 >St Pauls Afrikan-Caribbean Carnival
01.7.+1Sa>1990<2002 =Bristol, #1966th St. Pauls African-Caribbean Carnival ;Note=1st St. Pauls Festival, 1991 >St Pauls African-Caribbean Carnival {m}
01.7.+1Sa>2002<2006 =Bristol, #1967th St. Pauls African-Caribbean Carnival ;Note=1st St. Pauls Festival, 1991 >St Pauls African-Caribbean Carnival, not held 2002 {m}
01.7.+1Sa>2006<2012 =Bristol, #1968th St. Pauls African-Caribbean Carnival ;Note=1st St. Pauls Festival, 1991 >St Pauls African-Caribbean Carnival, not held 2002, 2006 {m}
01.7.+1Sa>2012      =Bristol, #1969th St. Pauls African-Caribbean Carnival ;Note=1st St. Pauls Festival, 1991 >St Pauls African-Caribbean Carnival, not held 2002, 2006, 2012 {m}
01.7.+3Sa =Chertsey, Black Cherry Fair* ;Note={m}
01.7.+1Fm-3Dy+1Sa =Dunwich Dynamo (night bicycle ride at full moon)* ;Note=Hackney, London >Dunwich, Saturday night closest to full moon July {m}
01.7.%1996,4+2Sa =Great Dunmow, Dunmow Flitch (leap years) ;Note=2nd Saturday July {m}
04.7.  =Whalton, Baal fire day (19:30) ;Note=traditional Midsummer fire festival {d}
05.7.+1Th =London, Procession of the Worshipful Company of Vintners ;Note=Thursdag after the 4th of July {m}
08.7.+1Su =Kilburn, Kilburn Feast* ;Note=Sunday after 07.7. {m}
25.7.  =Ebernoe, Ebernoe Horn Fair ;Note=Saint James's Day {d}
25.7.%1801,5 =St. Ives, #1796,5th John Knill Day (every 5 years since 1801, #1801 years ago) ;Note=1e 1801 {d}
31.7.-1Fr =Langholm, Common Riding* ;Note={m}

01.8.+1Mo-1Sa =Ripon, St Wilfrid's Feast Procession* ;Note={m-08}
01.8.+1Mo-1Sa =1st day National Eisteddfod of Wales (8d) ;Note=Saturday before 1st Monday August {xm-08}
01.8.+1Mo+1Sa =8th & last day National Eisteddfod of Wales (8d) ;Note=Saturday after 1st Monday August {xm}
01.8.+1Fr>1949      =Edinburg, 1st day #1949th Royal Military Tattoo (24d) ;Note=1st Friday August
01.8.+1Fr+22Dy>1949 =Edinburg, 24th & last day #1949th Royal Military Tattoo
01.8.+1Sa>1984 =Leicester, #1984e Caribbean Carnival* ;Note=1st Saturday August, 1st 1985 {m}
01.8.+2Mo-2Dy =Cranham Feast (Sa>Mo)
01.8.+2Mo-1Dy =Cranham Feast (Sa>Mo)
01.8.+2Mo     =Cranham Feast (Sa>Mo) ;Note=2nd Monday August {m}
01.8.+2Fr =South Queensferry, Burryman walks the boundaries* ;Note={m}
01.8.+2Th>1901     =Jersey, #1901th Battle of Flowers* ;Note=2nd Thursday August, 1st 1902 Coronation of Edward VII {d}
01.8.+2Th+1Dy>1988 =Jersey, #1988th moonlight parade* ;Note=1st 1989, evening after Battle of Flowers {d}
01.8.+2Fr =South Queensferry, The Burry Man* ;Note=2nd Friday in August {m}
12.8.*Lux =United Kingdom, Glorious Twelfth (start open season grouse shooting) ;Note=if Sunday >Monday, >01.12. {d}
12.8.+1Su =Macclesfield-Forest Chapel, Rushbearing* ;Note={m}
13.8.+1Mo =Marhamchurch, Marhamchurch Revel (wrestlers, procession)* ;Note=Monday after 12.8. {m}
20.8.-1We =Priddy, Sheep Fair* ;Note={m}
24.8.-3Dy+1Sa =West Witton, Burning Bartle* ;Note=Saturday nearest 24.8. {m}
24.8.  =West Ardsley, Lee Gap Fair* ;Note=St Bartholomew's Day {d}
24.8.+1Su =Manchester, Keaw Yed (Cow's head) Wakes Festival* ;Note=Sunday on or after 24.8. {m}
25.8.+1Sa =West Witton, Burning the Bartle* ;Note={m}
31.8.-1Mo-2Su =Blaisdon, Plum Day* ;Note={m}
31.8.-1Mo-1Su =Marldon, Apple Pie Fair* ;Note=since 1888 {m}
31.8.-1Mo-2Dy =London, Notting Hill Carnival (19:00 Steelpan Panorama)
31.8.-1Mo-1Dy =London, Notting Hill Carnival (06>09:00 J’Ouvert, 10>21:00 Kids Parade & Festival)
31.8.-1Mo     =London, Notting Hill Carnival (12>21:00 Parade & Festival) ;Note=last Monday August (bank holiday) (m)
31.8.-1Mo =Leeds, Leeds West Indian Carnival (Chapeltown Carnival)* ;Note=longest running West Indian carnival in Europe, August Bank Holiday {m}
31.8.-1Tu-1Dy =Northern Ireland-Ballycastle, Ould Lammas Fair (Mo>Tu)
31.8.-1Tu     =Northern Ireland-Ballycastle, Ould Lammas Fair (Mo>Tu) ;Note=last Tuesday August {m}
31.8.-1Su =Cucklet Cleft, Plague Sunday* ;Note={m}

01.9.+1Sa =Scotland, the Braemar Gathering (Scottish Highland Games, 9:30>17:00) ;Note=1st Saturday September {m}
01.9.+1Mo =Barnet Fair (annual horse & pleasure fair)* ;Note=1st Monday September {m}
01.9.+2Tu =Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Widecombe Fair* ;Note=2nd Tuesday September {m}
01.9.+2Sa =London, Last Night of the Proms (usual day)* ;Note=2nd Saturday September {m}
02.9.+1SU+1Mo =Oxford, St Giles Fair (mo&tu)* ;Note=Monday & Tuesday following the Sunday following St Giles Day (Sep 1) {m}
02.9.+1SU+1Tu =Oxford, St Giles Fair (mo&tu)* ;Note=Monday & Tuesday following the Sunday following St Giles Day (Sep 1) {m}
05.9.+1Su+1Mo =Abbots Bromley, Horn Dance (dancers wear reindeer horns)* ;Note=Wakes Monday (Monday following Sunday after Sept. 4) {m}
08.9.-3Dy+1Sa =Lichfield, The Sheriff's Ride (10:30)* ;Note=Saturday nearest to 8th September {d-09-08}
15.9.+1Su =Avening, 'Pigs Face Day'* ;Note=Sunday after 14.9. {m}
17.9.  =West Ardsley, Latter Lee* ;Note=2nd horse fair, 1st 24.8. {d}
19.9.-3Dy+1Su =Painswick, Clipping the Church* ;Note=Sunday nearest 19.9. {d-09-19}

01.10.-1Su =St. Catherine's Hill, Tap-Up Sunday* ;Note=Sunday before 02.10. {m-10}
01.10.+1Su>1950 =#1950th ultramarathon ‘London to Brighton’ (07:00) ;Note=1st Sunday October, 1st 1951 {m}
01.10.+1Su =London, Costermongers' Harvest Festival (Pearly King Harvest Festival) ;Note=St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1st Sunday October {m}
01.10.+1Th-1Dy =Nottingham, Goose Fair (since 1284, #1284 year ago, 17:30>23:00)
01.10.+1Th     =Nottingham, Goose Fair (since 1284, #1284 year ago, 12>23:00) ;Note=1st Thursday October {m}
01.10.+1Th+1Dy =Nottingham, Goose Fair (since 1284, #1284 year ago, 11>23:30)
01.10.+1Th+2Dy =Nottingham, Goose Fair (since 1284, #1284 year ago, 11>23:00)
01.10.+1Th+3Dy =Nottingham, Goose Fair (since 1284, #1284 year ago, 11:30>18:00)
01.10.+2We =Tavistock, Tavistock Goozey Fair* ;Note={m}
01.10.+2Su>1964 =Ashton, #1964th World Conker Championship* ;Note=1st 1965 {m}
10.10.-1Sa     =Marlborough, Mop Fair, Little Mop* ;Note={m}
11.10.*ZOM+1Sa =Marlborough, Mop Fair, Big Mop* ;Note={m}
12.10.*NLD =Stratford-on-Avon, Mop Fair* ;Note=if Sunday >Saturday {d-10-12}
18.10.-3Dy+1Sa =Egremont, #1266th Crab-Apple Fair ;Note=since 1267 {d-10-18}
24.10.-3Dy+1Th =Stow on the Wold, Horse sale* ;Note=chartered in 1476 by King Edward IV {d-10-24}
31.10.-1Th =Hinton St George, Punkie Night* ;Note={m}
31.10.-1Fr =Colchester, Oyster Feast* ;Note={m}

01.11.+1Su>1933 =#1933th London to Brighton Veteran Car Run ;Note=1st Sunday November, only open to cars built 1895>1904, commemorates repeal 'Red Flag Laws' 1905 {m}
;01.11.+1Su>1933 =Londen>Brighton, #1933th RAC Veteran Car Run* ;Note=1st Sunday November, only open to cars built 1895>1904, commemorates repeal 'Red Flag Laws' 1905 {m}
01.11.+2Su =Hatherleigh, Blazing Tar Barrels (5am)* ;Note={m}
05.11. =Devon-Shebbear, Turning the Devil's Stone (20:00)* ;Note={d}
05.11.-3Dy+1Th+1Dy =Bridgwater, #1880th illuminated Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival (19:00) ;Note=day after Thursday closest to 05.11. {dx}
11.11.-3Dy+1Su-1Dy>1927 =#1927th Royal Britisch Legion Festival of Remembrance (BBC) ;Note=evening before 'Remembrance Sunday'
13.11.+1Su =Broughton, traditional 'Tin Can Band' Parade (midnight) ;Note=1st Sunday after 12.11. {m}
22.11. =London, procession & divine service Worshipful Company of Musicians (St Paul’s Cathedral)* ;Note=St Cecilia's Day {d}
30.11.-3Dy+1Sa =Eton College, traditional 'Wall Game' ;Note=Saturday nearest 30.11. {d-11-30}

01.12.+1Sa     =Tree Dressing Day* ;Note={m}
01.12.+1Sa+1Dy =Tree Dressing Day* ;Note={m}
01.12.+1Su =Stour Descent canoe race* ;Note=Sturminster Newton Mill, Dorset down the River Stour >Bryanston {m}
01.12.+1Mo =Brigthlingsea, Cinque Port Deputy Election ;Note=1st Monday December {m}
01.12.+2We =Glastonbury, Thorn Cutting Ceremony* ;Note={m}
13.12.+1Su =Broughton, Tin Can Band Parade (24:00) ;Note=Sunday after 12.12. {m}
23.12. =Mousehole, Tom Bawcocks eve (festival)* ;Note={d}
24.12. =Dewsbury-All Saints Parish Church, Tolling the Devil's Knell (#0000 strokes)* ;Note=one stroke of the church bells tolled for every year {d}
24.12. =Richmond, T'owd 'oss* ;Note=Christmas Eve {d}
25.12. =Orkney, Ba' game* ;Note=also on New Year's Day {d}
25.12. =London-The Serpentine, #1863th swimming competition, #1903th Peter Pan Cup (09:00)* ;Note=100 yard, start south bank of the lake {d}
31.12. =Richmond, T'owd 'oss* ;Note=New Year's Eve {d}
31.12. =Scotland-Stonehaven, Swinging the Fireballs* ;Note={d}
31.12. =England-Allendale Town, Tar Barrels Parade (23:30)* ;Note={d}

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