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This is a list of traditional folk customs and scheduled yearly events. In other words, it doesn't change from year to year.
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January

• Harrogate Pavilions Winter Antiques & Fine Art Fair, Pavilions of Harrogate, Harrogate, Early January
• Plough Slots Service, Goathland, Monday after January 6

February

• Continental Market, Parliament Street, York
• Family Quiz Trails, RHS Garden Harlow Carr, Harrogate, Half term
• Holiday Fun, Fountains Abbey, Nr. Ripon, Half term
• Jorvik Viking Festival, York, Entire month of February
• Shrovetide Skipping, Scarborough, Shrove Tuesday

March

• Harrogate Competitive Festival of Music, Speech & Drama, Harrogate, Mid March
• The Last Days of Chinese Steam Exhibition, National Railway Museum , York, 19 March – 31 August 2008

April

• Easter Fun Day, Newby Hall, Ripon
• Family Quiz Trails, RHS Garden Harlow Carr, Harrogate, Early - Mid April
• Great Ouseburn Spring Festival, York
• Harrogate Antique & Fine Art Fair, Harrogate International Centre, Harrogate, April - Early May
• Harrogate International Youth Music Festival, Harrogate, Early - Mid April
• Harrogate Pavilions Spring Antiques & Fine Art Fair, Pavilions of Harrogate, Harrogate, Early April
• Harrogate Spring Flower Show, Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate, Late April
• Holiday Fun, Fountains Abbey, Nr Ripon, Early - Mid April
• Scarborough Literature Festival The Long Weekend, Scarborough
• The Last Days of Chinese Steam Exhibition, National Railway Museum , York, 19 March – 31 August

May

• 1968 and all that, National Railway Museum , York, 24 May - 1 June
• Continental Market, Parliament Street, York
• Family Quiz Trails, RHS Garden Harlow Carr, Harrogate, End May - Early June
• Holiday Fun, Fountains Abbey, Ripon, End May - Early June
• Knaresborough Spring Fayre, Knaresborough Market Square, Knaresborough, Mid May
• Make a Chinese Symbol, National Railway Museum , York, 26 - 30
• Moor and Coast Festival, Whitby
• Ripon Spring Bank Festival, Ripon, Late May - Early June
• Skiptons Waterway Festival, Skipton
• Swaledale Festival, Various Locations
• The Last Days of Chinese Steam Exhibition, National Railway Museum , York, 19 March – 31 August
• Tulip Festival, Constable Burton Hall Gardens, Leyburn
• WHITBY SHANTY WEEKEND, Whitby

June

• Classic Wings & Wheels Show, Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, 22nd
• FlightPATH ‘100’., Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, 5th
• Grand Summer Sale, Ripley Castle, Ripley, Early - Mid June
• Grassington Festival, Skipton
• Jacobean Day, Ripon Market Square, Ripon, Late June
• Jacobean Farmers Market, Ripon Market Square, Ripon, Mid June
• Knaresborough Bed Race, Knaresborough, Mid June

• Ladies Day at Ripon Racecourse, Ripon, Mid June
• Marton Cum grafton Open Gardens, Boroughbridge
• Medieval Living History Day, Knaresborough Castle, Knaresborough, Mid June
• Morris Dance Festival, Hutton le Hole, Kirkbymoorside
• Northern Aldborough Festival, Aldborough, End June - Early July
• Ripon Charter Year Exhibition, Ripon Town Hall, Ripon, Throughout June
• Swaledale Festival, Various Locations
• The Last Days of Chinese Steam Exhibition, National Railway Museum , York, 19 March – 31 August

July

• A Night at the Proms, Ripley Castle, Harrogate
• Blessing of the Boats, Whitby
• East Yorkshire Thoroughbred Car Club Rally., Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, 13th
• Engineering Inspirations ‘100’, Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, 2nd
• Family Quiz Trails, RHS Garden Harlow Carr, Harrogate, Late July - Early Sept
• Grassington Festival, Skipton
• Great Yorkshire Show, Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate, Mid July
• Harrogate International Festival, Harrogate, Mid July - Early August
• Hearts First Yorkshire Three Peaks, Settle, 27th
• Historic Vehicle Rally, Newby Hall, Nr. Ripon, Mid July
• Last Night of the Proms, Ripley Castle, Ripley, Early July
• Magnet Mania, National Railway Museum , York, 28 July – 1 August

• Masham Steam Engine & Fair Organ Rally, Showground, Masham, Mid July
• Nidderdale Festival, Nidderdale, Early - Mid July
• Party in the Park, Valley Gardens, Harrogate, Early July
• Railway Children, National Railway Museum , York, 18 July-23 August
• St. Wilfrid's Procession, Ripon, End July
• Summer Horticultural Show, Askham Bryan College, Askham Bryan, Late July
• The Hidden Gardens of Helperby & Brafferton, Brafferton, York
• The Last Days of Chinese Steam Exhibition, National Railway Museum , York, 19 March – 31 August
• Weeton & District Show, Weeton, Late July
• York Early Music Festival, York

August

• Burning of Bartle, West Wilton, Closest Saturday to August 24
• Childrens Day at Ripon Racecourse, Ripon, Early August
• Chinese Calligraphy, National Railway Museum , York, 4 – 8 August and 18 – 22 August
• Heaviest Gooseberry Show, Egton Bridge , Whitby
• Kite Flying , National Railway Museum , York, 11 – 15 August
• Knaresborough FEVA - Festival of Entertainment & Visual Arts, Knaresborough, Early - Mid August
• Magnet Mania, York, York, 25 – 29 August
• MG Rally, Newby Hall, Nr. Ripon, Early August
• Railway Children, National Railway Museum , York, 18 July-23 August
• Ripley Show, Ripley Castle, Ripley, Mid August

• Street Theatre/Busking Day, Market Square, Ripon, Early August
• The Last Days of Chinese Steam Exhibition, National Railway Museum , York, 19 March – 31 August
• Thunder Day!, Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, 3rd
• Tockwith & District Show, Bilton Grange, Bilton-in-Ainsty, Early August
• Trans Pennine Vintage Commercial Vehicles Run, The Stray, Harrogate, Early August
• Yorkshire Airshow, , York

September

• Allied Services Commemoration Day, Yorkshire Air Museum, York, 2nd
• Allied Services Day, Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, 7th
• Battle of Britain Service, Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, 14th
• Continental Market, Parliament Street, York
• Festival on the Moor, various, Whitby
• Harrogate Antique & Fine Art Fair, Harrogate International Centre, Harrogate, Late September - Early October
• Harrogate Autumn Flower Show, Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate, Mid September
• Masham Sheep Fair, Market Square, Masham, Late September
• Nidderdale Show, Bewerley Park, Pateley Bridge, Mid September
• Ripon International Festival, Ripon, Early - Mid September
• York Festival of Food and Drink, , York

October

• Air Power & Thunder 100 Day., Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, 19th
• Bus Rally (TBC), Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, 5th
• Captain Cook Festival, Whitby

• Family Quiz Trails, RHS Garden Harlow Carr, Harrogate, Late October
• Ghost Festival, , York
• Holiday Fun, Fountains Abbey, Nr. Ripon, Late October
• SightSonic Digital Arts Festival, , York

November

• Gift & Food Fair, Ripon Cathedral, Ripon, Mid/Late November
• Knitting & Stiching Show, Harrogate International Centre, Late November
• Remembrance Sunday, Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, 9th
• St Nicholas Fayre, , York

December

• Continental Market, Parliament Street, York
• Holiday Fun,, Fountains Abbey, Nr. Ripon, Late December
• Knaresborough Edwardian Sunday, Market Square, Knaresborough, Early/Mid December
• York Early Music Christmas Festival, , York

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