County |
Date |
First observed |
Origin |
Bedfordshire |
28 November |
2015 |
Date decided by a public vote organised by The Friends of Bedfordshire society [1] |
Black Country Day |
14 July |
2012 |
Date chosen as it is considered to be the date of the inception of the Newcomen engine, the first commercially successful engine.[2] |
Buckinghamshire |
29 July |
2015 |
Date selected to remember the founding of the Paralympic Movement at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, near Aylesbury. |
Cheshire |
30 March |
2021 |
Commemorates the reissuance of the Magna Carta of Chester in 1215. |
Cornwall (St Piran's Day) |
5 March |
c1900 (Cornwall) |
Previously a local holiday, revived as part of Cornish nationalism movement |
Devon |
4 June |
Traditional |
It is Saint Petroc’s Day |
Dorset |
1 June |
Traditional |
The Feast Day of St Wite. |
Durham |
20 March |
Traditional |
The Feast Day of St Cuthbert.[3] |
Hampshire |
15 July |
2019 |
Hampshire County Council[4] |
Huntingdonshire |
25 April |
2002 |
Huntingdonshire Society[5] |
Kent |
26 May |
Traditional |
The feast day of Augustine of Canterbury, first Archbishop of Canterbury |
Lancashire |
27 November |
1996 |
Friends of Real Lancashire |
Lincolnshire (Lincolnshire Day) |
1 October |
2006 |
Commemorates Lincolnshire Rising 1536 |
Middlesex |
16 May |
c2003 |
John Randall originated early day motion[6] |
Norfolk |
27 July |
2018 |
A project between BBC Radio Norfolk and the Eastern Daily Press (EDP).[7] |
Northumberland |
Last Sunday in May |
2017 |
A privately run day originally started by Catapult PR and Langley Castle Hotel, after consultation with a variety of key stakeholders and businesses.[citation needed] It is now run by Catapult PR and The County Day Company and has been hugely successful, scooping the national Chartered Institute of Public Relations Excellence Award for the Best Tourism PR Campaign in the UK, in May 2018, as well as other awards thus far.[citation needed] Northumberland Day in 2020 has become the first 'virtual' county day.[citation needed] |
Northamptonshire |
25 October |
2014 |
The feast day of Saints Crispin and Crispinian, the patron saints of cobblers, date decided by a public vote[8] |
Nottinghamshire |
25 August |
2021 |
Commemorates the birth of Broc the Great, two-time convenor of the eponymous ‘stowe’, inventor of the cormorant, and distant relative of Jeff Kent (author) and Jacob Zuma |
Orkney |
16 April |
Traditional |
The feast day of Saint Magnus |
Oxfordshire (Oxfordshire Day) |
19 October |
? |
Also called Saint Frideswide's Day. |
Shetland |
21 June |
Traditional |
Celebrated in the Shetland Isles annually. |
Shropshire |
23 February |
Traditional |
The feast day of St Milburga, the abbess of Wenlock Priory, Shropshire. |
Staffordshire |
1 May |
2016 |
Date decided by a public vote organised by Destination Staffordshire |
Suffolk |
21 June |
2017 |
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Sussex (Sussex Day, also known as St Richard's Day) |
16 June |
2007 |
The feast day of St Richard of Chichester, Sussex's patron saint Recognised by county councils of East and West Sussex[9] |
Yorkshire (Yorkshire Day) |
1 August |
1975 |
Yorkshire Ridings Society |