UK local events and Oddities- do you have any?

[PugwasHDJ80]

Spurred on by the Gloucester Cheese rolling, do you have any local notable events that are unique to your region and worth seeing? There are some really interesting things i can think of, but would like to know more up and down the country.

They are usually things that are inherently dangerous or politically incorrect!

For example:

Burning Tar Barrels; Ottery St Mary Devon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmznuVOQbXY
Severn Bore Surfing: Gloucester onwards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKA39LQOIck
Gloucester Cheese rolling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmnjHu4PwGc

What other eventscan you add to the list?

[Amused2death]

Dwile Flonking.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYuAHlWM3RE

[droopsnoot]

Not far from here there is Worm Charming during summer, though I'm not sure how widespread that is.

[ewenm]

Not necessarily "local" but definitely odd:

Bog-Snorkelling


Wife-Carrying

[sjabrown]

The local Highland Games used to have Savile as the 'chieftain' which would be enough of an oddity.

[Corpulent Tosser]

Fireballs

[drivin_me_nuts]

Brighton; burning of the clocks, pride and a whole season of London to Brighton wrecks sputtering their way darn sarf only to be AA'd back again.

[ewenm]

drivin_me_nuts said:

Brighton; burning of the clocks, pride and a whole season of London to Brighton wrecks sputtering their way darn sarf only to be AA'd back again.

And that's just the cyclists!

[Big Fat Fatty]

Closest odd event that goes on here is the Dorset Knob Throwing and food festival
https://youtu.be/HhTUQe498F0

I actually went to the Gloucester Cheese Rolling event this weekend and chucked myself down the hill, didn't win a cheese though. Pictures and vids don't do the hill any justice, that sucker is steep!

[jesta1865]

i did this a number of years ago with some of my mates from football

http://www.maldonmudrace.com/

it's a lot bigger deal now than it was when we did it. then it was just a bunch of nutters getting muddy once a year

[omgus]

The Windlesham Pram Race.

http://pramrace.com/

If you were to get drunk in fancy-dress whilst pushing a friend in a home made pram in windlesham any other day of the year they would call the police. On Boxing day they close the roads and let you do your best/worst to make a fool of yourself.

[JimbobVFR]

I'm in North Yorkshire so probably loads. The first one that comes to mind is the Knaresborough bed race http://www.bedrace.co.uk/

[northwest monkey]

We have "The Coconutters" near me. Basically, grown men black up and do Morris Dancing for some reason.

[Spare tyre]

Oak Apple day

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Apple_Day

[Einion Yrth]

northwest monkey said:

We have "The Coconutters" near me. Basically, grown men black up and do Morris Dancing for some reason.

I am amazed that that has not been stopped in these politically correct times.

[central]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle-kicking

[P7ERM]

Not as painful as you might think ...

http://www.dorsetknobthrowing.com/

[prand]

Another one in Dorset - World Nettle Eating championship:

http://calendarcustoms.com/articles/world-stinging...

[dumfriesdave]

Until Health and Safety banned it in 2010 we had the 'World Flounder Trampling Championship' locally.

[JB!]

Couple of miles away from me;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olney,_Buckinghamshir...

Next village over does this, the wierdos:

http://www.castlethorpeduckrace.co.uk/joomla25/ind...