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FARMING AND RURAL EVENTS
JUNE 2023
- 1-30 June: Festival of Roses
RHS Rosemoor, Great Torrington, Devon EX38 8PH
www.rhs.org.uk - 1-3 June: Royal Bath and West Show
The Showground, Shepton Mallet, BA4 6QN
www.bathandwest.com - 8-10 June: Royal Cornwall Show
Wadebridge, PL27 7JE
www.royalcornwallshow.org - 10-11 June: Woolly Weekend
The Weavers’ Workshop, Dilham, Norfolk, NR28 9PT.
Woolly Weekend - 11 June: St Barnabas – traditional day to start haymaking
- 11 June Leaf Open Farm Sunday – UK wide
https://farmsunday.org/ - 11 June Somerset Green Scythe Fair
Muchelney, Langport,
www.greenfair.org.uk http//scytheassociation.org/events/ - 12-13 June: Cheffins Cambridge Machinery Sales
Machinery Saleground, CB6 2QT
www.cheffins.co.uk - 15 June: St Vitus day – folk lore has it that rain on this day is followed by 40 wet days
- 16-18 June: Three Counties Show
Three Counties Showground, Malvern, Worcestershire WR13 6NW www.countrytastic.co.uk - 17-18 June: Cork Summer Show
Cork Show Grounds, Curraheen, Co Cork - 21 June: Summer Solstice
- 20-21 June: Cheshire County Show
Tabley, near Knutsford, WA16 0JF - 21-22 June: Lincolnshire County Show
Showground Grange-de-Lings Lincoln LN2 2NA UK
lincolnshireshow.co.uk - 24 June: Midsummer’s Day – the third quarter day when agricultural rents are due
- 22-25 June: Royal Highland Show
Ingliston, Edinburgh
royalhighlandshow.org - 28-29: June Groundswell – The Regenerative Agricultural Festival
Lannock Manor Farm, Hertfordshire
www.groundswellag.com - 28-29 June: Royal Norfolk Show
Dereham Road, Costessey, Norwich, NRS 0TT
www.royalnorfolkshow.co.uk
JULY 2023
- 1 July: Lampeter Agricultural Show including the Dyfed Angora Goat Society Club Show
www.lampetershow.co.uk - 1-2 July: Winterton Agricultural Show, Scunthorpe
www.wintertonshow.co.uk - 2 July: Howden Agricultural and Horticultural Show
www.howdenshow.co.uk - 7-9 July: Kent County Show, Detling, Kent
http://kentshowground.co.uk - 8 July: Dalkeith Agricultural Show
www.dalkeithshow.co.uk - 8 July: Liskeard Show, Cornwall
www.liskeardshow.org - 8 July: Tendring Hundred Show, Manningtree (including Colchester Poultry Club Show)
www.tendringshow.co.uk - 11- 14 July: 164th The Great Yorkshire Show, Harrogate
www.greatyorkshireshow.co.uk - 15-16 July: Eccleston Show
www.greatecclestonshow.co.uk - 14-15 July: Caithness County Show
www.caithness.co.uk - 15 July: Alrewas Show, Staffs
www.alrewasshow.co.uk - 15 July: Penrith Show, Cumbria
www.penrithshow.co.uk - 17 July: Stithians Show, Cornwall
https://stithians.show - 16 July: Bakewell Country Festival, Bakewell Showground
www.visitpeakdistrict.com/events/bakewell-show - 22 July: Cheffins Vintage Auction, Ely Cambs
www.cheffins.co.uk - 24-27 July Royal Welsh Show: Builth Wells
www.rwas.co.uk - 25 July: 152nd Ryedale Show
www.ryedaleshow.org.uk - 25-27 July: New Forest & Hampshire County Show
www.newforestshow.co.uk - 26 July: 126th Nantwich & South Cheshire Show.
www.nantwichshow.co.uk - 26 July: Ulverston and North Lonsdale Agricultural Show
www.northlonsdaleshow.co.uk - 26 July: Stranraer Show
www.stranraershow.co.uk - 29 July: Borrowby Show
www.borrowbyshow.org.uk - 29 July: Carnwarth Show
www.carnwathagriculturalsociety.com - 29-30 July: 155th Heckington Show including Donkey Show
www.heckingtonshow.org.uk - 30 July: Totnes & District Show, Devon
www.totnesshow.com - 30-31 July: Turriff District Agricultural Association
www.turriffshow.co.uk/
AUGUST 2023
- 1 Aug: Lammas Day (Lughnasadh)
- 2 Aug: Wigtown Show at Bladnoch Park, Wigtown, Newton Stewart, Dumfries & Galloway, DG8 9AB
www.wigtownshow.org.uk - 2-3 Aug: Black Isle Show, Mansfield Showground. ([Preview evening 2nd)
www.blackisleshow.info - 2-5 Aug: Equifest Arena UK
equifest.org.uk - 3 Aug: Burwarton Show, Shropshire
www.burwartonshow.co.uk - 5 Aug: Cockermouth & District Show, Cumbria
www.cockermouthshow.co.uk - 5 Aug: Cardigan County Show
www.cardigancountyshow.co.uk - 5 Aug: 138th Blakesley Show, Towcester, Northamptonshire
www.blakesleyshow.co.uk - 5 Aug: Brecon County Show
breconshow@btinternet.com - 5 Aug: Dumfries & Lockerbie Show
dumfriesshow.co.uk - 5 Aug: Emley Show
www.emleyshow.co.uk - 5 Aug: Garstang Show, Lancs
www.garstangshow.org - 5 Aug: 113th Osmotherley & District Horticultural & Agricultural Show
www.osmotherleyshow.co.uk - 5 Aug: Oswestry & District Agricultural Show
www.owestryshow.co.uk - 5 Aug: Pruning Plum Trees West Raynham, Norfolk
www.applesandorchards.co.uk - 6 Aug: 138th Sykehouse Show
www.sykehouseshow.org.uk - 6 Aug: Tockwith & District Agricultural Show
www.tockwithshow.org.uk - 6 Aug: Wayland Agricultural Show, Watton, Norfolk
www.waylandshow.com - 7 Aug: NSA Early Ram Sale, RWAS Showground, Builth Wells
www.nationalsheep.org.uk/nsaram-sales/main-sales/ - 9 Aug: Bute Agricultural Summer Show
www.buteagriculturalsociety.co.uk - 10 Aug: Appleby Agricultural Show
www.appleby-show.co.uk - 10 Aug: Okehampton & District Agricultural Show
www.okehamptonshow. co.uk - 11-12 Aug: Royal Manx Agricultural Show Isle of Man
www.royalmanx.com - 12 Aug: Chepstow Show
www.chepstowshow.co.uk - 12 Aug: Dalston Show Cumbria Website
www.dalstonshow.co.uk - 12 Aug: Ellingham & Ringwood Show
www.ellinghamshow.co.uk - 12 Aug: Halifax Agricultural Show
www.halifax-agricultural-show.co.uk - 12 Aug: Orkney Agricultural Show
www.orkneycountyshow.co.uk - 12 Aug: Sedgefield Show
www.sedgefieldshow.co.uk - 12-13 Aug: Chertsey Show inc donkey show
www.chertseyshow.co.uk - 15-16 Aug: Anglesey County Show
www.angleseyshow.org.uk - 16 Aug: South West Ram Sale, August, Exeter Livestock Centre
www.nationalsheep.org.uk/events/forthcoming-events/ - 16-17 Aug: Gillingham & Shaftesbury, Dorset
www.gillshaftshow.co.uk - 17 Aug: Denbighshire & Flintshire Agricultural Show
www.denbighandflintshow.com - 19 Aug: Ashbourne Show
www.ashbourneshow.co.uk - 19 Aug: The Donkey Breed Society Championship Show, Moreton Morrell College, Warwickshire www.donkeybreedsociety.co.uk
- 19 Aug: Fillongley Show, Coventry
www.fillongley-show.co.uk - 20 Aug: Mid-Somerset Show Shepton Mallet
www.midsomersetshow.org.uk - 24 Aug: Melplash Show
www.melplashshow.co.uk - 25 Aug: NSA Eastern Region Rugby Ram Sale, Rugby Farmers Mart www.nationalsheep.org.uk/events/forthcoming-events/
- 26 Aug: Wensleydale Agricultural Show
www.wensleydaleshow.org.uk - 27-28 Aug: Edenbridge and Oxted Surrey
www.edenbridge-show.co.uk - 28 Aug: 75th Epworth Show nr Doncaster
www.epworthshow.org - 28 Aug: Aylsham Show, Norfolk
www.aylshamshow.co.uk - 31 Aug – 3 Sept: Burghley Horse Trials
www.burghley-horse.co.uk
SEPTEMBER 2023
- 1 Sep: Thame Farmers Market breeding ewe sale incorporating the NSA South East Ram Sale nationalsheep.org.uk/events/forthcoming-events/
- 2 Sep: Alresford Show
www.alresford-agriculturalshow.org.uk - Sep: Harbottle Show
www.harbottleshow.com - 2 Sep: Keighley & District Agricultural Show
www.keighleyshow.org - 2 Sep: Lladysul Show
www.sioellandysulshow.co.uk - 2 Sep: Lowick & District Agricultural Show
www.lowickshow.com - 2-3 Sep: Wolsingham Agricultural Show
www.wolsinghamshow.co.uk - 3 Sep: Kildale Agricultural & Horticultural Show Yorks
www.kildaleshow.com - 8-9 Sep: Melton Mowbray, Leics Traditional Native Breeds Show and Sale
www.meltonmowbraymarket.co.uk - 8 – 9 Sep: 181st Stanhope Agricutural Society Show
www.stanhopeshow.co.uk - 9 Sep: How to identify Apples, EEOP’s HQ at West Raynham, Norfolk
www.applesandorchards.co.uk - 9 Sep: Findon Sheep Fair, West Sussex
www.findonsheepfair.co.uk - 9 Sep: Frome Agricultural & Cheese Show
www.fromecheeseshow.co.uk - 9 Sep: Romsey Show
www.romseyshow.co.uk - 9-10 Sep: Build It Live SouthWest, WestpointArena, Exeter.
https://builditlive.co.uk/ - 10 Sep: Warden Abbey Vineyard, Bedfordshire,Open Day
- 11 Sept: Wiltshire Horn North Wales Show & Sale, Gaerwen LL60 6DF
www.wiltshirehorn.org.uk - 13 Sep: Westmorland County Agricultural Show
www.westmorlandshow.co.uk - 15 Sep: Midlands Sheep Fair incorporating the NSA Eastern Region Ram Sale
nationalsheep.org.uk/events/forthcoming-events/ - 16 Sep: City Farm Show and Harvest Festival
https://londonharvestfestival.org.uk/home/london-harvest-festival/ - 16 Sep: Wiltshire Centenary Premier Show & Sale, Stoneleigh Park, CV8 2RG www.wiltshirehorn.org.uk
- 16 – 17 Sep: Newbury Show
www.newburyshowground.co.uk/ - 18 Sep: Wales & Border Main Ram Sale, Royal Welsh Showground
www.nationalsheep.org.uk/nsa-ram-sales/ - 22-24 Sep: Malvern Autumn Show
www.threecounties.co.uk/threecounties - 23-24 Sep: Festival of Thrift Billingham, Stockton
info@festivalofthrift.co.uk - 23 Sep: 164th Stokesley Show
www.stokesleyshow.co.uk - 23 Sep –1 Oct: Shetland Wool Week
www.shetlandwoolweek.com - 24 Sep: Nidderdale Show Pateley Bridge
www.nidderdale.co.uk/show - 24 Sep: Ramsey Rural Museum Country Fair Huntingdon, Cambs
www.ramseyruralmuseum.co.uk - 29 Sep: Michaelmas Day – St Michael is one of three archangels mentioned in the bible. It is one of the quarter days of England.
- 30 Sep: Gransden & District Agricultural Show
www.gransdenshow.co.uk
OCTOBER
- 7 Oct: East Anglian Regional Donkey Show Skylark Garden Centre Wimblington, Cambs
ewright757@btinternet.com - 11-15 Oct: Become a food grower and earn £ Sheepdrove Organic Farm, Lambourn, Berkshire
- 14 Oct: Poultry Club Egg Show Meeting Point House, Telford, Shropshire, TF3 4HS
https://nationalshow.poultryclub.org/ - 14 Oct: Scottish Smallholder Festival 2023 Royal Highland Centre
www.festival.scot - 14-15 Oct: British National Ploughing Championships and Country Festival Bishop’s Lydeard, near Taunton by kind permission of KS Coles and family.
www.ploughmen.co.uk - 21 Oct: Cheffins Vintage Sale Sutton, near Ely
cheffins.co.uk - Oct 21st-24th: FOUR Day CAMELIDynamics Clinic, Mullacott Alpacas! Ilfracombe Devon EX34 8NA www.camelidynamics.com
- 23 Oct: National Sheep Association (NSA) Sheep Health Week
www.nationalsheep.org.uk - 26-28 Oct: The National Honey Show, Sandown Park Racecourse, Esther, Surrey
www.honeyshow.co.uk
NOVEMBER
- 4-5 Nov: Newark Vintage Tractor & Heritage Show
www.newarkvintagetractorshow.com - 15 Nov: The Southern Counties Farming & Machinery Show, Newbury Showground
southerncountiesmachineryshow.co.uk - 22 Nov: The Vineyard & Winery Show, Kent Event Centre, Detling, Maidstone, Kent ME14 3JF vineyardshow.co.uk
- 25 Nov: Pedigree & commercial sale of in lamb females, Melton Mowbray Market, Scalford Road, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, LE13 1JY
meltonmowbraymarket.co.uk
DECEMBER
- 2 December: Melton & Belvoir Agricultural Fatstock Show & Sale, Melton Mowbray Market, Scalford Road, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, LE13 1JY
meltonmowbraymarket.co.uk - 4 December: Winslow 153rd Annual Christmas Primestock Show & Sale, Melton Mowbray Market, Scalford Road, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, LE13 1JY
meltonmowbraymarket.co.uk
JANUARY 2024
- 12-13-14 Jan: Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival, Cambs
strawbear.org.uk - 17-18 Jan: LAMMA (agricultural machinery, equipment and technology show) NEC, Birmingham
www.lammashow.com
DISCLAIMER: Please note that the Country Smallholder magazine cannot take any responsibility for descriptions of shows and events included in this diary. Check before you set out to travel to make sure that the show is running and is what you want to visit.
FEBRUARY
- 10 Feb: East Anglia Potato Day Otley College, Suffolk
www.eastangliapotatoday.org.uk - 11 Feb: Norwich Seed and Plant Swap, St Mary Magdalene Church Hall, Silver Road
norfolkorganic.org.uk - 13 Feb: Olney Pancake Race, Bucks
olneypancakerace.org - 21 Feb: West Country Farming & Machinery Show, Westpoint, Exeter westcountryfarmmachineryshow.co.uk
- 24-25 Feb: Tractor World, Three Counties Showground, Malvern
tractorworldshow.co.uk
DISCLAIMER: Please note that the Country Smallholder magazine cannot take any responsibility for descriptions of shows and events included in this diary. Check before you set out to travel to make sure that the show is running and is what you want to visit.
March
- 22-23-24 March: British Alpaca Society (BAS) 2024 National Halter Show and Champion of Champions Fleece Show Telford International Centre – TF3 4JHD
bas-uk.com
DISCLAIMER: Please note that the Country Smallholder magazine cannot take any responsibility for descriptions of shows and events included in this diary. Check before you set out to travel to make sure that the show is running and is what you want to visit.
APRIL
- 1 April: London Harness Horse Parade,
South of England Showground, Ardingly,
West Sussex RH17 6TL
www.lhhp.co.uk - 6 April: NWAG Alpaca Championships, Exhibition Hall, Borderway Mart, Carlisle, Cumbria.
- 6-7 April: West Norfolk Textile Fair, Lynn Sport, Kings Lynn.
- 7 April: Ramsey Rural Museum, Heritage Day, Food and Craft, Ramsey near Huntingdon, Cambs PE26 2XD
- 7 April: Spalding Model Tractor& Construction Show, Springfields, Spalding, Lincs
www.spaldingmodeltractorshow.com - 8 April: Cheffins Cambridge Machinery Sales, Machinery Saleground, CB6 2QT
www.cheffins.co.uk - 13-14: April Wool and Yarn Festival RHS Rosemoor, Great Torrington, Devon EX38 8PH
www.rhs.org.uk
- 12-14 April: Heart of England Alpaca Group Spring Fiesta, Bury Farm Equestrian Centre, Mill Lane, Slapton, Bucks LU7 9BT
heartofenglandalpacagroup.co.uk - 12-14 April: British Bee Keeping Spring Convention 2024, Harper Adams University, Shropshire TF10 8NB
- 19-20 April: Cheffins Cambridge Vintage
Sales, Machinery Saleground, CB6 2QT
www.cheffins.co.uk - 20-21 April: Alpaca Evolution Fibre Arts Weekend, Fair Winter Farm, Singleborough MK17 0RB
alpacaevolution.com - 21 April: Tractor Run, Prickwillow Engine Museum www.prickwillowmuseum.com
- 27-28 April: Scottish Alpaca Group Show,
Lanark Ag Centre, Hyndford, Lanark M11 9AX - 27-28 April: Wonderwool Wales 2024, Royal Welsh Showground, Builth Wells
www.wonderwoolwales.co.uk - 27-28 April: Tractor Gathering,
Beamish Museum, Co Durham DH9 ORG www.beamish.org.uk - 29 April – 1 May: Farm Shop and Deli Show, NEC Birmingham
www.farmshopanddelishow.co.uk
DISCLAIMER: Please note that the Country Smallholder magazine cannot take any responsibility for descriptions of shows and events included in this diary. Check before you set out to travel to make sure that the show is running and is what you want to visit.
MAY
- 1 May: May Day obby ‘oss parade, Padstow, Cornwall
- 4 May: Spitalfields Traditional & Native Breeds and Mutlibreed Spring Fling Sale of Ewes with Lambs at Foot, Melton Mowbray Market LE13 1JY www.meltonmowbraymarket.co.uk
- 4-6 May: Stradsett Park Rally
www.nvtec-ea.org.uk/rally - 6 May: Rogation Sunday, Look out for Well Dressing and villages ‘walking the bounds’
- 11 May: Nottinghamshire County Show, The Showground, Lincoln Road, Winthorpe, NG24 2NY www.nottinghamshirecountyshow.com
- 11 May: Ayr County Show, The Ayr Racecourse
ayrcountyshow.co.uk - 11 May: Farm & Food Literature Festival, FarmED, Station Rd, Shipton-under-Wychwood, Chipping Norton, OX7 6BJ www.farm-ed.co.uk
- 11-12 May: National Mills Weekend
www.spab.org.uk/mills/national-mills-weekend - 12 May: The South Suffolk Show, Ampton Racecourse, Bury St Edmunds
www.southsuffolkshow.co.uk - 12 May: Southport & Ormskirk Bantam Society Championship Egg and Juvenile Show (Free entries for juveniles). Tel: 07917669184 Email: so.bantams@gmail.com
- 13-14 May: Cheffins Cambridge Machinery Sales, Machinery Saleground, CB6 2QT
www.cheffins.co.uk - 15-16: May Pig and Poultry Fair, NEC Birmingham, Register at www.pigandpoultry.org.uk
- 16-18 May: Devon County Show, Westpoint, Clyst St Mary, Exeter, EX5 1DJ
- 18 May: Otley Show, The Showground, Otley, LS21 2AA
- 18 May: Keith Fur, Poultry and Regional Egg Show. Postal entries for eggs welcome
Tel: 07787 446930 Email: julieshand85@hotmail.com - 18-19 May: Smallholding and Countryside Festival, Royal Welsh Showground, Builth Wells, LD2 3SY rwas.wales/smallholding-and-countryside-festival
- 19 May: Fen Fair, Ramsey Rural Museum Wood Lane, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire PE26 2XD www.facebook.com/ruralmuseum
- 19 May: Poultry Club of Wales Spring Show
www.poultryclubofwales.co.uk/ - 19-20 May: Cheffins Vintage Sales, Sutton, Cambs
- 21-25 May: RHS Chlesea Flower Show London Gate, Royal Hospital Road, Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, SW3 4SR
www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/rhs-chelsea-flower-show - 25 May: Shropshire County Agricultural Show The Greenhouse West Mid Showground. Shrewsbury, SY1 2PF
- 25 May: Northumberland County Show Bywell, Near Stocksfield, NE43 7AB www.northcountyshow.co.uk
- 25-26 May: Hertfordshire County Show, The Showground, Redbourn, Herts, AL3
- 25-27 May: Crick Boat Show Crick Marina, NN6 7SQ
- 29-30 May: Suffolk County Show Trinity Park, Ipswich, IP3 8UH
www.suffolkshow.co.uk - 29-30 May: Staffordshire County Show Stafford, ST18 0BD www.staffscountyshowground.co.uk
- 30 May-1 June: Royal Bath and West Show
DISCLAIMER: Please note that the Country Smallholder magazine cannot take any responsibility for descriptions of shows and events included in this diary. Check before you set out to travel to make sure that the show is running and is what you want to visit.
