Folk Customs and Festivals


Abbots Bromley Horn Dance

Abingdon Bun Throwing

Apple Day

Ash Wednesday

Ashen Faggot (Dunster and Axmouth)

Barrel Rolling Races (Grantchester)

Battle of the Beanfield

Beltane

Blessing of the Throats

Bolster Day (St Agnes)

Bonfire Societies (Sussex)

Boxing Day 

Boy Bishops

Britannia Coco-Nut Dancers (Bacup)

Broughton Tin Can Band

Burning the Bush (Ledbury) 

Burning the Clavie (Burghead)

Burns Night

Burry Man (Queensferry)

Braughing Old Man's Day (Braughing)

Carshalton Straw Jack

Chair Arches (High Wycombe)

Chap Olympiad

Chiltern Kills Crime Writers Festival (Gerrards Cross)

Clovelly Herring Festival (Devon)

Cooper's Hill Cheese Roll (Gloucester) and here

Cornish Hurling

Cotswolds Olympicks and here 

Crying the Neck (Cornwall)

Dwile Flonking

Easter Egg Rolling (London and Lancs)

Eccentric Club of Great Britain

Eton Wall Game

Father Christmas Versus Santa Claus

Faversham Hop Festival

Feast of St Osyth (Aylesbury)

Flora Day (Helston)

Full Moons (naming of) 

Full Moons (Alternative names)

Furry Dance (Helston)

Golowan (Penzance)

Guising

Hal-An-Tow (Helston)

Halcyon Days

Halloween

Haxey Hood 

Haxey Hood (Full)

Hazlemere Zoo

Hercules Clay Bombshell Sermon (Newark)

Hocktide and Tutti-Men (Hungerford)

Holy Wells and Healing Trees

Horning the Colt (Weyhill)

Hunting the Earl of Rone (Combe Martin)

Imbolc 

Jorvik Festival (York)

Keynsham Mummers

Kop Hill Climb (Princes Risborough)

Krampusnacht

Lion Sermon (London)

London Druids Ceremony (Tower Hill)

London Oranges and Lemons Day

London Quit Rents Ceremony

Mayor Weighing (High Wycombe)

Mari Lwyd

May Day

Mazey Day (Penzance)

Meyboom (Brussels)

Michaelmas Day (Kidderminster)

Montol (Penzance)

Morris Dancing

Mummers

Newark Penny Loaf Day

Nippy Dipping (Aberdeen)

Nottingham Goose Fair (Nottingham)

Ogham Tree Alphabet

Old Crockern (Dartmoor)

Ostara

Ouija Boards

Pack Monday Fair (Sherborne)

Poor aud Oss (Yorkshire)

Poppy Man (Chesham)

Punkie Night (Hinton St George)

Ringing the Devil's Knell (Dewsbury)

River Football (Bourton-on-the-Water)

Rush Bearing (Cheshire)

Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Races, Mob Football, Skipping Scarborough)

St Agnes Eve

St Blaise Day

St David's Day

St George's Day

St Piran's Day

St Valentine's Day

Samhain

Selkirk Haggis Hunt

Sheelah's Day (and the Sheela Na Gig)

Sheffield Carols

Shoe Tree (Studley Green)

Spring Equinox (Vernal Equinox)

Stir-Up Sunday

Tar Barrels (Ottery St Mary)

Teddy Roe's Band (Sherborne)

Tichborne Dole (Hampshire)

Tiddlywinks Congress (Cambridge)

Tom Bawcock's Eve (Mousehole)

Trevithick Day (Camborne)

Turning the Devil's Stone (Shebbear)

Twyford Lost in the Dark Bells (Twyford)

Up Helly Aa! (Shetlands)

Village Carols

Wandering Stone of Quoyboyne (Orkneys)

Wassailing

Well Dressing

Whittlesea Straw Bear

Whuppity Scoorie

Wild Hunt Ceremony (Glastonbury Dragons)

World Conker Championships

World Gravy Wrestling Championships (Stacksteads, Lancs)

Worm Charming

Yule

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