Welcome to the Yorkshire Day Festival

THE BEST of Yorkshire will be celebrated at the Yorkshire Post’s inaugural Yorkshire Day Festival, to be staged at Harewood House in Leeds. The three-day festival runs from August 1 to 3 and will include everything from local food and drink to crafts, games and children’s rides.

All the stallholders are Yorkshire through and through and include the Yorkshire branch of the British Beer and Pub Association which will be offering people a taste of Yorkshire’s real ales and Made in Yorkshire, which represents the region’s craftsmen.

Enjoy cookery demonstrations in the live kitchen and the finest fare from deliciouslyorkshire members and the regions premium growers and producers.

Activities will also include old-fashioned fairground rides for youngsters and exhibitions from Yorkshire artists and sculptors - one of whom will be painting his own record of events.

Whether you take on the challenges on offer from the Yorkshire Regiment, revisit Lewis Hamilton's roots at the go-karts or picnic on the grass to the sound of Yorkshire's champion brass bands there's something for all the family.

Map & Directions

The Way We Were Video

Our short film compiles archive documentary and intimate family reels to give a fascinating snapshot of Yorkshire over the last century, taking in cheerfully waving 1920s crowds crammed into football stadia, vintage panoramas of Whitby and York which remain fundamentally unchanged to this day and harvesting without the might of today's combine harvesters. You can see the film on a bigger screen at the Yorkshire Day Festival.

Please click play to watch the video