- Annual World Bog-Snorkelling Championships in Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales
- Annual Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling event in Gloucester
- Annual World Tin Bath Championships at Castletown on the Isle of Man
- Annual World Egg Throwing Championships in Swaton, Lincolnshire
- Annual two-day Up'Ards and Down'Ards village football "game" to manoeuvre a ball by any means into one of two goals placed three miles apart, in Ashbourne, Derbyshire
- Annual Chap Olympiad celebrating British eccentricity and sporting ineptitude in a spirit of surreal silliness jousting astride Boris bikes brandishing furled brollies and briefcase; Beach Volleybowler; The Corby Trouser Press Challenge; and Bread Basketball.
- Annual World Hen Racing Championship outside the Barley Mow pub, Bosnall, Derbyshire
- Annual Twelve Hour Lawnmower Endurance Race at various locations in England
- Annual World Conker Championships near the ancient market town of Oundle, Northants
- Annual Black Pudding Hurling event near Bury (basically a sporting riff on the ancient grudge between Yorkshire and Lancashire, played out by contestants hurling black puddings at a pile of Yorkshire puddings set on a 20-foot-high plinth. Competitors have three attempts to knock down as many Yorkshire puddings as possible).
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