Great Yorkshire Show - Harrogate, Yorkshire, UK - Festivals on Waymarking.com

The Great Yorkshire Show is an agricultural show which takes place on the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate annually from the second Tuesday of July until the following Thursday. It is organised and run by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society. It is the largest agricultural show in England.

The first Show was held in 1838 in the Barrack Yard at Fulford, near York. Though the numbers attending were not recorded the event was counted a success; police had to use their batons to restore order among the large numbers of visitors when they began to force their way in without paying.

The Show in 1842 had a paid attendance of 6,044. By 1843 the Show had become known as the "Great Yorkshire Show", apparently by popular acclamation rather than in any official sense.

The GYS continued to be held in various places around Yorkshire until 1950. That year the Yorkshire Agricultural Society bought a site at Hook Oval in Harrogate for £16,500. The 1951 the attendance figure was nearly 54,000. 2006 was the most successful show so far in terms of attendance figures,with 135,111 visitors. The show was cancelled in 2001 due to the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Britain and in 2012 after only one day due to exceptional rain which had made the showground car parks unsafe.

The show has hundreds of individual competitions that feature animals and machinery. There is a large exhibition area that focuses on local food.

How many days does the festival last?: 10 Admission Price: 24.00 (listed in local currency) Coordinates Location:: main ring Website:: [Web Link] National, County, or City Festival?: Not listed

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