Events in West Yorkshire
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
- Normanton & Pontefract Model Railway Exhibition, New College, Pontefract, Late January
- The Christmas Adventure @ Stockeld Park, Stockeld Park, Wetherby
March
- Brighouse Art Circles Annual Exhibition, Smith Art Gallery, Brighouse, March-May
- Easter Eggstravaganza, National Coal Mining Museum , Wakefield
- Huddersfield Green Fest, Various venues, Huddersfield, Late March
April
- Brighouse Art Circles Annual Exhibition, Smith Art Gallery, Brighouse
- Byram Arcade Vintage Fair, Byram Arcade, Huddersfield
- Dock Pudding Championship, Mytholmroyd
- Marsden Cuckoo Day, Marsden
- Midgley Pace Egg Play, Calder High School, Calder Valley, Good Friday
May
- Brighouse Art Circles Annual Exhibition, Smith Art Gallery, Brighouse
- Gawthorpe Maypole Procession, Ossett
- Golcar Lily Day, Various locations, Golcar
- Leeds Horticultural Society Annual Plant Sale & Coffee Morning, St Chad's Parish Centre, Headingley
- Live at Leeds, Various Venues, Leeds, May Day Bank Holiday Weekend
- Love Leeds, Leeds
- Pennine Spring Music Festival, Heptonstall
- Yorkshire Game Fair, Harewood House, Harewood
June
- Fun Run, Halifax
- Great Northern Leisure and Adventure Show, Pontefract Race Course, Pontefract
- Halifax Food and Drink Festival, Halifax
- Hebden Bridge Arts Festival, Hebden Bridge
- Honley Agricultural Show, Farnley Tyas Showground, Huddersfield, Early June
- Long Division, Wakefield
- Miners’ Gala, National Coal Mining Museum for England, Wakefield
- Pennine Spring Music Festival, Heptonstall
- Temple Newsam Steam Fair, Temple Newsam Estate, Leeds
July
- Boston Spa Festival, Boston Spa, Wetherby
- Family Summer Fun, National Coal Mining Museum, Wakefield, Monday 23 July - Friday 31 August
- Garforth Arts Festival, Garforth Community College, Leeds
- Halifax Festival, Halifax, Mid-July
- Hebden Bridge Arts Festival, Hebden Bridge
- Holmfirth Artweek, Civic Hall, Holmfirth, Early July
- Land Rover Show, National Coal Mining Museum, Wakefield, Saturday 7 & Sunday 8
- Leeds Shakespeare Festival, Leeds
- Miners' Gala, National Coal Mining Museum, Wakefield, Sunday 22
- Opera in the Park, Leeds
- Party in the Park, Leeds
August
- Bingley Music Live, Bingley
- Carling Weekend - Leeds, Bramham Park , Wetherby
- Emley Agricultural Show, Factory Farm, Emley, Huddersfield, Early August
- Girls Aloud at Harewood House, Harewood House, Leeds
- Huddersfield Food & Drink Festival, St George’s Square, Huddersfield
- InFest, Bradford University, Bradford
- Leeds Festival, Bramham Park, Leeds, Bank Holiday Weekend
- Leeds Flower, Vegetable and Craft Show, Leeds Grammar School, Leeds, Early August
- Leeds Shakespeare Festival, Leeds
- Midgefest, Upper Midgley Farm, Wakefield
- Mirfield Family Agricultural Show, The Showground, Mirfield, Mid August
- Shadwell Flower Show, Shadwell Primary School, Leeds, Mid-August
September
- Bite The Mango Film Festival, Bradford
- Damnation Festival, Leeds University Union, Leeds
- Heritage Open Days, Various locations
- Heritage Open Weekend, National Coal Mining Museum, Wakefield
- High Heel-a-thon, Gateway complex , Leeds, Late September
- Holmfirth Food and Drink Festival, Huddersfield
- Ilkley Literature Festival, Ilkley
- Leeds Bradford Guitar Show, Pudsey Civic Hall, Pudsey
- Leeds to Skipton Canal Walk, Leeds
- Rag Rugs, National Coal Mining Museum, Wakefield, Saturday 15
- Saltaire Festival, Saltaire, Shipley
- Sowerby Rushbearing, Sowerby Bridge
- Wakefield Rock n Wrestle Festival, UKW Thunderdome, Wakefield
October
- Ilkley Literature Festival, Ilkley
- Marsden Jazz Festival, Marsden
- Spooktacular Halloween!, Eureka! The National Children’s Museum, Halifax, Half-term holiday
- The Christmas Adventure @ Stockeld Park, Stockeld Park, Wetherby
- Wetherby Festival, Wetherby
November
- Animation Festival and BAF! Awards, Bradford
- Autumn Fair, National Coal Mining Museum, Wakefield
- Children In Need Lantern Launc, Stockeld Park, Wetherby
- Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield, Late November
- Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield
- Huddersfield Victorian Christmas Fair, Huddersfield
- Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds
- Santa Underground Grotto, National Coal Mining Museum for England, Wakefield
- Stockeld Parks Fireworks Spectacular, Stockeld Park, Wetherby, Early November
- The Christmas Adventure @ Stockeld Park, Stockeld Park, Wetherby
- Thought Bubble Festival, Saviles Hall, Leeds
- Wetherby Festival, Wetherby
December
- Carols for a Choral Future, Leeds Parish Church, Leeds
- Christkindelmarkt - German Christmas Market, Millennium Square , Leeds
- Christmas at Eureka!, Eureka! The National Children’s Museum, Halifax
- Reindeer Run for RNLI, Bramham Park, Wetherby
- Santas Grotto, Abbey House Museum, Leeds
- The Christmas Adventure @ Stockeld Park, Stockeld Park, Wetherby
- The Cross Keys Christmas Market, The Cross Keys, Leeds, Early December
- Unique Gift Fair, Corn Exchange, Leeds
- Wetherby Christmas Evening Carol Concert, Town Hall Steps, Wetherby
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