Coming events across Lakeland
If you have an event that needs a mention please email
Lakestay for inclusion. Dates can vary year to year so please
check wherever possible.
Lake District Summer Music;International
Festival and Summer School
February&March
Keswick Film Festival 29 February - 3 March 2024.
www.keswickfilmfestival.org
Ambleside Daffodil and Spring Flower Show - 3rd Saturday
Malcolm
Wilson Rally in Cockermouth and North Lakes
April
Good Friday: Uppies and Downies football
through Workington .
Cockermouth's
Host of Daffodil in honour of William Wordsworth each April
Damson Day, Lyth Valley
Lakes Collective of Artists & Designer Makers Easter Fair
– , Ambleside Parish Centre, Ambleside.
May
Printfest, Ulverston: First
weekend in May each yearPrintfest includes some of the
best printmakers working in the UK today.
Muncaster Festival; The festival will culminate with the International
Jesters Tournament held on the final day.. Muncaster
Castle.
Keswick Mountain Festival ...https://www.keswickmountainfestival.co.uk/
Carlisle and Borders Flower Show - Usually Bank Holiday Sunday
and Monday
Keswick Jazz Festival held in May features 80 concerts and
shows in no less than 18 venues around the town. Usually. Highlight
is a New Orleans style street parade on market day.
Melmerby May Day - 2nd Saturday
Gilsland Garden and Crafts Fair - 3rd Saturday and Sunday
Ireby Festival
Coniston Water Festival - Whit Weekend (commences Friday)
Cartmel Races May Race Day Fair – Saturday
in May
Curwen Fair, Workington - Whit Saturday
Hutton Roof Country Fair and Fell Race - Whit Saturday.website
for Hutton Roof Fair
Country Fest, Crooklands, Kendal. http://www.westmorlandshow.co.uk/country_fest.html
Kendal Mediaeval Market - Whit Monday
Queen of Solway Dance Festival, Maryport - Whit Tuesday to Saturday
The Great Garden Show, Holker - Last Friday to Sunday..
JUNE
Hayton Open Gardens 2024 Open for charity under the National Gardens
Scheme Sunday 19th May afternoon 12pm till 5pm At least 10 gardens
open for only £5 Homemade Teas and Plants for sale Hayton
Brampton CA8 9HR
Castletown Gala Day, Penrith - 1st Saturday
Seaton Childrens Carnival - 2nd Saturday
Carlisle Carnival - 2nd Sunday
The Lanercost Music Festival usually takes place in June at Lanercost
Priory, between Brampton and Hadrian’s Wall.
Winton Sheepdog Trials - 3rd Saturday
Appleby Jazz Festival - 3rd Saturday and Sunday
Barrow in Furness Rotary Gala - 3rd Sunday
Brough Hound and Terrier Show - 3rd Sunday
Coniston Country Fair on 22nd July 2007
Cumbria Classic Car Show, Carlisle - 3rd Sunday
Cockermouth Woolfest
In late June each year.
Flookburgh Charter Fair - 3rd Sunday
Keswick Carnival - 3rd Sunday
Kirkby Lonsdale Brass Contest - 3rd Sunday
Muncaster Jubilee Festival
Including the world famous Festival of Fools. 3rd – 7th June
2012.
June18-22 2008 - Lanercost Music Festival
June 20-22 2008 - Silloth Vintage Rally
Alston Sheepdog Trials - 4th Saturday
Ulverston International
Music Festival will take place from Wednesday June 19-27 2020
Late June ·- Distington Vintage Steam Rally
Warcop Rushbearing - St Peters Day
Endmoor Country Fair - last Sunday
Ullswater Country Fair - last Sunday
July
Hayton Open Gardens 2023 Sunday 9th July afternoon 12pm till
5pm
Brampton CA8 9HR...Open for charity under the National Gardens
Scheme
At least 14 gardens open for only £5
Homemade Teas and live music at the school
Teas in aid of Hayton Primary School
The annual Morcambe
Bay Search & Rescue Cross Bay fundraising walk
Skelton Agricultural Show - 1st Saturday
Kendal Calling
Cancelled in 2021 due to Covid.
(At Lowther near Penrith)
Music on the Marr
Castle Carrock CA8 9LU...Music on the Marr, Cumbria’s most
friendly musical event, returns 18-21 July in 2019.
Ambleside Rushbearing - 1st Saturday
Flimby Carnival - 1st Saturday
Musgrave Rushbearing - 1st Saturday
Whitehaven Carnival -
1st Saturday
West Cumbria Vintage Rally, Distington - 1st Sunday
LANGDALE GALA 1ST SUNDAY
Westmorland Horticultural Society Show, Kendal - 1st Sunday
Alston Gala - 2nd Saturday
Staveley Carnival to be held in and around Staveley village between
Kendal and Windermere in S. Lakeland from July 14th-16th 2006
Coniston Fair, 19th July2009
Appleby Annual Carnival and Sports - 2nd Saturday and Sunday
Ravenstonedale Festival.
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New Lakeland Rose Show, Grange over Sands - 2nd Saturday and Sunday
Allithwaite Carnival - 3rd Saturday
Cleator Moor Sports - 3rd Saturday
Cumberland County Show, Carlisle - 3rd Saturday
Maryport Blues Festival (Cancelled in 2018 .
Festivalwebsite
Keswick Christian Conventions
Dalemain Craft Fair - 3rd Saturday and Sunday
Dearham Carnival - 4th Saturday
Eden Valley Dog Training Club, Stainton - 4th Saturday
Lorton Hound Show - 4th Saturday
Threlkeld Steam Gathering...Normally in July
Penrith Show - 4th Saturday
North Lonsdale Show, Ulverston - Last Thursday
Lanercost Craft Fair - Last Saturday
West Cumbria Rose Society Show, Egremont - Last Saturday
Windermere Lakes Lions Festival, Bowness - Last Saturday and Sunday
Cumbria Steam Gathering,
Flookburgh - Last Saturday and Sunday
Craft Fair, Dacre Hall, Lanercost. .For further details contact
Elizabeth Harding 0169772538
August
Appleby Horse Fair. Normally in June but now Planned for August
12 2021...more info.
Gilsland Agricultural Show, Triermain Farm, Gilsland www.gilslandshow.co.uk
Lake District Summer Music
International Festival
Whitehaven International Festival (July or August)...Find
out more...
Lake District Sheepdog Trials, Staveley - 1st Thursday
Beetham Sports - 1st Saturday
Cockermouth Agricultural
Show - 1st Saturday
Grasmere Rushbearing - 1st Saturday
Thirlmere Flower Show - 1st Saturday
Fell Pony Society Breed Show, Brougham Castle - 1st Sunday
Solway and Hadrian Fuchsia Show, Houghton, nr Carlisle - 1st Sunday
Lunesdale Agricultural Show, Kirkby Lonsdale - 2nd Tuesday
Appleby Agricultural Show - 2nd Thursday
Kendal Calling 2014 ...confusingly held at Penrith..1st - 3rd
August 2014
Lowther Game and Country Fair; - Countryman Fairs will hold the
Lowther Game and Country Fair, on the 13th and 14th August 2011,
and in forthcoming years on the 2nd weekend of August.
Dalston Show - 2nd Saturday
Gosforth District Agricultural Show - changed to 3rd Saturday.
Threlkeld Sheepdog Trails - 3rd Wednesday
Brough Agricultural Show - 3rd Thursday
Grasmere Sports - ,last Sunday in August
Ambleside Flower Show and Crafts - 3rd Friday to Sunday
Barbon Annual Sheepdog Trials - 3rd Saturday
Crosscrake Flower Show - 3rd Saturday
Ravenstonedale Agricultural Show - 3rd Saturday
Storth Gardening Show - 3rd Saturday
Gatesgarth Country Fair - 3rd Sunday
Lakeland Festival of Brass, Grange over Sands - 3rd Sunday
Langdale Country Fair - 3rd Sunday
Kendal Gathering - Week commencing 4th Friday
Kirkby Lonsdale Gardening Show - 4th Saturday
Kendal Folk Festival - Bank Holiday Friday to Sunday
Wigton Dog Training Obedience - Bank Holiday Saturday and Sunday
Greenodd Horticultural Show - Bank Holiday Saturday
Patterdale Dog Day - Bank Holiday Saturday
Esthwaite Open Sheepdog Trails - Bank Holiday Sunday
Kentmere Sheepdog Trials - Bank Holiday Sunday
Dentdale Gala - Bank Holiday Monday
Keswick Show - Bank Holiday Monday
Muncaster Fair and Sheepdog Trials, Ravenglass/Black Combe
Beagles Field Day at Haverigg near Millom; Both events clash on
August 27 2007 - Bank Holiday Monday
Silloth Carnival - Bank Holiday Monday
Solfest
August 22-24 2024 . Solfest weekend festival takes place
at Tarns, near Aspatria www.solfest.org.uk
Ennerdale and Kinniside Show - Last Wednesday
Burton, Milnthorpe and Carnforth Show - Last Thursday
Caldbeck and Hesket Sheepdog Trials - Last Thursday
Cartmel Races Aug 23 ?2024
Crosby Ravensworth Show - Last Thursday
Dufton Show and Sheepdog Trials - Last Saturday
Millom and Broughton Agricultural Show - Last Saturday
Hesket Newmarket Agricultural Show - Last Saturday
Eskdale Fete - Last Sunday
Black Combe County Fair at BootleMonday August 27 in 2012. Those
wishing to book a pitch should contact Graham Dicker on 019467
25041.
Selside and Grayrigg show is on the last Thursday in August
September
Kendal Unitarian Chapel...Music evening in aid of Manna House
clients...September 30 2018. For more information Tel. 015397737537.
Silloth Music
and Beer Festival 10-13 September 2020
Ulverston Beer Festival at Coronation Hall. Around 70 brews from
over 50 breweries are available.
TASTE
CUMBRIA, Cockermouth Taste Cumbria takes place over the
weekend of 28/29 Sept 2019.
Cockermouth
Rotary Touch a Truck Gala...Sunday, September 17 2023.
Appleby Gardeners Show - 1st Saturday
Lowick Show - 1st Saturday
Thornthwaite Home and Garden Show - 1st Saturday
Kirkby Lonsdale Victorian Fair - 1st Saturday and Sunday
Westmorland Horticultural Society Show, Kendal - 2nd Tuesday and
Wednesday
Westmorland County
Show, Crooklands - (2nd Thursday)
Alston Flower Show - 2nd Saturday
Gilsland Show - 2nd Saturday
Ulverston Lantern Procession - 2nd Saturday 18th Sept in 2010
Ulverston Market Charter Festival - 2nd Saturday
Westmorland Horticultural Society Show, Kendal - 3rd Wednesday
Loweswater and Brackenthwaite Show - 1st Sunday... Loweswater Show ...
Brampton Sheepdog Trials - 3rd Friday
Egremont Crab
Fair - 3rd Saturday
Borrowdale Shepherds Meet and Show - 3rd Sunday
Sedbergh Festival of Books and Drama .http://www.sedbergh.org.uk/
Cumbria Open Brass Contest, Whitehaven - Last Saturday
Eskdale Show - Last Saturday
Urswick Rushbearing - Last Sunday
October
Wasdale Head Shepherds Meet and Show - 2nd Saturday
Buttermere Shepherds Meet and Show - Now changed to 4th Saturday(see
contacts below)
Whitehaven Beer fest October See www.whitehavenbeerfestival.co.uk
November
Kendal Mountain Festival Kendal, Cumbria. UK
16 - 19 November 2017 : Website: http://www.mountainfest.co.uk
Carlisle Fireshow Saturday 6th November 2010 Bitts Park, Carlisle
CA3 8UL Start: 7.00 pm More
info
Walna Scar Shepherds Meet and Show - 1st Saturday
Stoneside Shepherds Meet, Ulpha - 2nd Saturday
The Biggest Liar in the World Competition,The
Bridge Inn, Santon Bridge Third Thursday in month
Ulverston's Dickensian Christmas Festival
Lakeland's Christmas Crafts Extravaganza, Brockhole - 4th Friday
to Sunday
Workington Model Railway Exhibition.From: Saturday 21st November
2009
To: Saturday 21st November 2009 Time: Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun 10am
- 4pm. Where: Moorclose Sports Centre
Organiser: Alistair Grey Phone: 01900 67389.
Crafts at Christmas, Kendal - Last Saturday
Ulverston Dickensian
Festival – The annual event, which sees thousands
of Ulverston traders and locals don Dickensian costumes to recreate
a traditional era in the town. For more information, call Mr Winston
on 01229 580640.
December
11th-23rd December 2014 Christmas Theatre "By the Light of
the Fool Moon" at Muncaster
Castle.
Christmas showings Percyhouse
Gallery, Cockermouth
Crafts at Christmas, Kendal - 1st Saturday
Crown and Mitre Christmas Crafts, Carlisle - 1st Saturday
Keswick Victorian Fayre - 1st Sunday
Kirkby Lonsdale Christmas Fair - 1st Saturday
Lakeland
Show contact numbers as at 2007.
Lakeland Rose Show
01229 584926
Great Eccleston Show 01995 679204
BUTTERMERE SHEPHERDS MEET AND SHOW
25TH OCOTBER in 2008
Gosforth Show Tel 01946 724652
Cumberland County Show 016977 47397
Cumbria Steam Gathering 015242 71584
Royal Lancashire Show 01254 813769
Penrith Show 01931 713325
North Lonsdale Show 01229 585832
Ambleside Sports 015394 34087
Garstang Show 01253 799119
Cockermouth Show 01946 692798
Coniston Fair: David Robinson
Tel: 015394 37360
Cartmel Show 01539 722777
Barbon Show & Sheepdog Trials 015242 76286
Dalston Show 01228 523034
Lunesdale Show 015395 66979
Skelton Show 01768 484122
Hawkshead Show 015394 36134
Grasmere Sports 015394 32127
Millom & Broughton Show 01229 774940
Grayrigg Show 01539 823632
Bentham Show 015242 61606
Lowick Agricultural Show 01229 885638
Westmorland County Show 015395 67804
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