Annual Events
Annual Events
- Every year the Lincolnshire Agricultural Society, founded in 1869, stages the Lincolnshire Agricultural Show. It is held in June at its showground, a few miles north of Lincoln on the A15. First held around the year 1884, it is one of the largest agricultural shows in the country, and is attended by around 100,000 people over its two days. Smaller local agricultural shows are really worth going to, including the Heckington Show, Woodhall Spa Show, Revesby Show and many more.
- On the Monday before Easter, an unusual auction takes place in Bourne to let the grazing rights of the Whitebread Meadow. Bidding takes place while two boys race toward the Queen’s Bridge in Eastgate, the end of which dash is equivalent to the falling of the gavel. The whole affair dates back to the 1742 will of William Clay.
- The Haxey Hood competition takes place every January, as it has for over 700 years.
- Metheringham Fayre & Feast, associated with Saint Wilfred took place in the last full week of October to mark the end of the harvest. Although it died out in the 1960s it was brought back to life again in the 1980’s by Michael Credland and has been running ever since. The special dish is stuffed chine (bacon stuffed with parsley).
- Many villages hold annual Scarecrow Festival in May every year.
- Barrow-on-Humber has introduced a Wheelbarrow Trail in support of ‘Better Barrow’ which includes decorated wheelbarrows throughout the town. Although only initiated in 2013 it is set to become an annual tradition.
- Lincoln Christmas Market, a traditional Christmas market throughout historic uphill area of the city, has been held at the beginning of December.
