Aug 2009 (annual)
Cost: Various
Hours: 10am-5pm (last admission 3pm)
Ploughmen from all over the country compete in the annual Beamish Ploughing Match at the Beamish Open Air Museum.
Spectators get to see magnificent heavy horses at work with traditional harness and ploughs as well as the preparations for the Decorated Heavy Horse class. There's also a display of horse-powered farm machinery, along with demonstrations of basket, corn dolly and harness making and traditional pole lathing.
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