Festivals in England

English Festivals

From the Glastonbury Festival to the Notting Hill Carnival and from Cheese Rolling in Gloucestershire to the Chelsea Flower Show, welcome to 2camels' special take on the fiestas, fairs, celebrations, holidays, carnivals and festivals of England.

17 England Festival Articles

15 England Festival Snippets

85 England Festival Photo Galleries

18 England Festival Videos

126 Festival Websites

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England Festivals » 17 Articles

Article Title: London's Calypso Carnival

Festival Name: Notting Hill Carnival

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Party

But all that changes on the August bank holiday weekend as the Notting Hill Carnival - Europe's largest street party and second only in the world to Rio's Carnaval - swings and sways its way into W11.

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Article Title: Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts

Festival Name: Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Music - Varied, Performing Art, Party

Glastonbury - the best known, most written about festival since Woodstock - may seem familiar even to those who haven't been there. Everyone's seen all those images of mud-larking. But it's well worth making the effort to actually attend a 21st century Glasto.

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Article Title: Getting Ready for the Glastonbury Festival

Festival Name: Glastonbury Festival

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Music - Rock, Party, Music - World

I want to be buried in mud, rained on in the dance tent by human feces, surrounded by deliciously bizarre people, and maybe (hopefully) catch some of the world's best electronic music performers along the way.

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Article Title: Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling

Festival Name: Cheese Rolling

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre, Traditional

I never expected to spend my May Bank Holiday weekend as a participant in one of Europe's wackiest and most dangerous events, but there I was, perched atop a huge, steep, bumpy hill in Gloucestershire as an entrant in the third race of the day, about to throw myself down after a piece of rolling cheese.

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Article Title: Cheese Rolling in Gloucestershire

Festival Name: Cheese Rolling

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, Bizarre, Harvest

Wherever it's origins it's hard to argue that cheese rolling is a sport for the outrageously courageous or at least the dangerously demented. Contestants in the Cooper's Hill event (between Gloucester, Stroud and Cheltenham in the Cotswolds) on the last Monday in May, stand precipitously at the top of a 300 yard hill, that maintains a gradient of two in one for the most part whilst a Master of Ceremonies counts them down.

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Article Title: Mower Racing

Festival Name: Mower Racing World Championships

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre, Sport - Motor Sport

An English rally-car racer, frustrated by the rising costs of his sport, debuted the event in 1973: Lawn-mower racing offers an inexpensive, accessible event with no lingering misgivings about whether or not to bag your clippings.

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Article Title: Toe Wrestling

Festival Name: World Toe Wrestling Championships

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre

Every year, competitors from as far as the United States, Canada, Australia, and Germany travel to the Bentley Brook Inn in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England, for the world's least furtive and most aggressive game of footsie: The World Toe Wrestling Championship

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Article Title: Shrovetide Football

Festival Name: Shrovetide Football

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, Bizarre, Party

Imagine an NFL football game. Now, round out that ball, lose the shoulder pads, and add a few hundred or even a thousand players to each team. Okay, now move the end zones three miles apart, and dam a river at the 50-yard line. Now you're ready for some Royal Shrovetide Football

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Article Title: Extreme Coldwater Swimming Championships

Festival Name: Winter Swimming Championships

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Sport - Water, Sport - Extreme, Bizarre

It's true: some do like it hot. The rest, on the other hand, drink Brass Monkeys, Blue Tits, and Chilly Willy: The only three beers served at the Winter Swimming Championships

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Article Title: Burning the Clocks in Brighton

Festival Name: Burning the Clocks

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Solstice, Pagan, Street Parade

About a mile down the promenade from Brighton Pier, people congregate and gaze out over the silent beach towards the calm silhouette of a wicker king. They throng in the gathering darkness of the year's longest night, kids and adults jostling and stretching to get the best view. Except for their shuffling and whispering all you can here is the wind, and the slow ominous tattoo of the single drum.

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Article Title: One Love Festival

Festival Name: One Love Festival

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Music - Reggae, Party

One Love Festival celebrates the anniversary of Bob Marley's infamous 1978 One Love concert and offers you four days and nights of pure reggae love

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Article Title: Lulworth Castle Medieval Festival

Festival Name: Lulworth Castle Medieval Festival

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Medieval, Historical

Lulworth Castle is a gem though, with round towers at each corner, every child's picturebook vision, and the Festival was arranged to take full advantage of this with the Arena right in front of the main entrance. I had rented a holiday cottage in the village for the weekend, and arrived on the Friday afternoon.

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Article Title: Bedfordshire Medieval Festival

Festival Name: Bedfordshire Medieval Festival

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Medieval

Fayre opened with a ground-shaking explosion as the gunners from the Compagnie of Saynte Barbara fired their fearsome one-and-a-half tonne siege engine, the Bombard, to let people know that the programme of demonstrations and displays was about to begin

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Article Title: Canada Day in London

Festival Name: Canada Day

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): National, Historical, Party

Canadians seldom get vocal about much. There are loads of us in London but we never make ourselves known like our fellow Aussie and Kiwi working holidaymakers. A big reason for that could be that we don't have many events in London to support, but when July 1st rolls around, Canadians flock to the Maple Leaf pub in Covent Garden to show their patriotism.

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Article Title: Respect

Festival Name: Respect Festival

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Multicultural, Music - World, Music - Varied

It was a beautiful summers day in London and I was on the way to RESPECT - an Anti-racism and Multicultural Festival. This annual event has been held in July, for the past 2 years in various parks around London. This year the festival was held in Victoria Park, Hackney.

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Article Title: The Festival of the Soggy Bed and Some Guy Called Our Pat

Festival Name: The Championships - Wimbledon

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Sport - Racquet, Traditional

As far as sporting festivals go they don't come much purer than the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club's annual Championships, at Wimbledon.

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Article Title: Moments of Magick at the Stones

Festival Name: Summer Solstice

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Solstice, Pagan, Folk

Me, I haven't rebounded on Earth since the Stones. Not yet. I'm a day back and my head is still somewhere on that wind, rain and mist-filled Plain of Salisbury. The Y2K solstice party seemed to be full of good vibes.

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