Great Yorkshire Show

07/10/2026

🎅 🎅 A huge new Christmas experience is coming to the Great Yorkshire Showground!! 🎅 🎅 Join Santa’s Nice List now for priority access to tickets before general sale! ✍️ www.polarkingdom.co.uk

🎅 A HUGE NEW CHRISTMAS EXPERIENCE IS COMING TO YORKSHIRE!

🎄 This Christmas, we're hosting a brand new event and transforming into SANTA’S POLAR KINGDOM! A spectacular Christmas adventure for the whole family!

Step inside a magical winter world packed with festive experiences…

🌌 Explore the Enchanted Elf Forest Light Trail
🚂 Climb aboard the Santa Express
🎅 Discover Santa’s Workshop
❄️ The magical Ice Kingdom
🎡 Enjoy the Festive Funfair & Christmas Market
🛷 Take an interactive Christmas sleigh ride
✉️ Send your wishes from the North Pole Post Office
🍹 Relax at the Après Ski Bar

✨ PLUS LOADS MORE CHRISTMAS MAGIC TO DISCOVER!

Make a day of it and experience a huge festive adventure where Christmas comes to life!

🎟️ TICKETS ON SALE SOON!

Santa is preparing his invitations… 🎅💌
Join Santa’s Nice List now for priority access to tickets before general sale! ✍️ www.polarkingdom.co.uk


📍 The Great Yorkshire Events Centre, Harrogate
🎁 A magical Christmas experience for all ages

Your journey to Polar Kingdom starts here… ❄️✨

14/08/2026

🧀 We're proud to announce that cheese loving visitors to the Great Yorkshire Show have now helped raise an incredible £70,000 for good causes over the years, with Field Nurse and Saint Michael's Hospice set to benefit from the latest support for the Show’s ever-popular Cheese Auction 🧀

The milestone comes after prize-winning cheese went under the hammer in the Great Yorkshire Food Hall on the third day of this year’s Show, raising a grand total of £8,315.

Dates for your diary: 168th Great Yorkshire Show, Tuesday 13 - Friday 16 July 2027

13/08/2026

Something a little different for us...... the Main Ring being transformed for Symphonic Ibiza, on Saturday 15 August. Last few tickets remaining - https://greatyorkshireeventscentre.co.uk/yec-events/symphonic-ibiza/

28/07/2026

It’s been two weeks since the first day of the 167th Great Yorkshire Show🚜

This year’s Show was a memorable celebration with:

✅150,000 visitors
✅8,500 animals 
✅13,500 competitive entries
✅World-class showjumping
✅1000+ Trade Stands
✅6000 visiting school pupils
✅350 volunteers
✅Industry collaboration 
✅Innovations shaping farming 
✅Sponsors from regional and national brands

Thank you to all our exhibitors, farmers, members, sponsors, volunteers, stewards, judges, staff, and visitors who came together to celebrate farming, food and the countryside at this year’s Great Yorkshire Show.

We look forward to welcoming you back for the 168th Great Yorkshire Show!
📍 Tuesday 13 - Friday 16 July 2027

22/07/2026

We are very proud to announce that HRH Princess Royal is the new President Elect of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society and will formally become President at the end of the 2027 Great Yorkshire Show (13-16 July 2027).

The Princess Royal has been a regular visitor to the Great Yorkshire Show, first attending in 1992 and then subsequently in 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022.

She becomes the first royal President since HRH The Duchess of Kent in 1972 and follows in the footsteps of the Show’s first female President, her great aunt Princess Mary, later The Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, who took the role in 1937, 1951 and 1957.

HM King Charles III has been the Society’s Patron since 1998 and has also been a frequent visitor, attending in 1999, 2006, 2011, 2015 and 2021.

17/07/2026

Stunning finale to the 167th Great Yorkshire Show!

Friday’s chat show star who has built up a huge following after appearing in Clarkson’s Farm, was a big hit with visitors, taking to the Ariat GYS Stage to talk about her farming life in Derbyshire, her previous career as a qualified nurse and her newfound fame with TV presenter

🐄 Harriet, whose partner James’ family run a Simmental herd, visited the cattle lines where she presented rosettes in the Beef Young Handlers class for exhibitors aged 12-14. First prize went to Abbie Jackson-Carr, 13, of Carlecotes near Sheffield, showing Hereford cow, JC1 Marigold. It was a victory backed up by further success at the Show for Abbie, winning the Hereford breed championship with Coley Malan as well as Female Champion.

Show Director Rachel Coates said: “I would like to thank our outgoing President, Nick Lane Fox for his invaluable contributions over the last 12 months. The Show's success really is the sum of all of the contributions made by our volunteers, staff and stewards, and I'm hugely grateful to everyone, including our visitors, who have made this record-breaking Great Yorkshire Show such a wonderful occasion in its 167th year.” Nick Lane Fox handed over the Presidency of show organisers, the Yorkshire Agricultural Society as Rodrica Straker stepped forward to take over for 2026-27.

🐑 A pair of Texel sheep proved a hit with the judge when they won the Overall Sheep Pairs Championship. Belonging to Eammon Vaughan of Partridge Nest Farm Texels, in Staffordshire the duo were chosen by judge Mr Steve Smith as the best from a strong competition of pairs from both the Non MV and MV classes, which they won moments earlier.

Roll on the 168th Great Yorkshire Show!
📍 Tuesday 13 - Friday 16 July 2027

17/07/2026

Day Four! That’s a wrap for 2026!🥳🚜🌾

Watch our highlights video over on YouTube with & at 7pm👀➡️📹

See you next year!
📍Tuesday 13 - Friday 16 July 2027

17/07/2026

***TRAFFIC UPDATE***

Please be aware that there was a traffic light failure on Rudding Lane, affecting those cars leaving Brown Car Park.

This has now been fixed, but may impact visitors leaving this area.

Thank you for your patience.

17/07/2026

🌟 It's the final day of the Great Yorkshire Show and the gates are officially open!

Thank you to everyone who has made this week so special. We hope all our visitors enjoy an unforgettable final day😁

16/07/2026

Day 3: Equine Fairytales & Livestock Champions🏆

🐴A memorable third day at the Great Yorkshire Show saw local legend John Whitaker claim the prestigious Ripon Select Foods C**k O' the North title for a seventh time. The 70-year-old narrowly edged out nephew James on Just Call Me Henry, producing three flawless clear rounds aboard Equine America Unick du Francport before stopping the clock at 39.42 seconds in the jump-off.

🐄In the livestock rings, the focus was on Supreme Champions across many sections, including cattle where the Beef Supreme championship went to an Aberdeen Angus cow, Blelack Princess Carina, with calf at foot, owned by Devon-based Mr and Mrs Mike Alford and handled by Cathal O’Meara and Daisy Newton, who said: “It’s a great accolade and a great pleasure to show this class of cattle.

🐑The Supreme Sheep Champion made it two out of three so far with its win at the Great Yorkshire Show. Ellie Owens carried on a family tradition of showing Kerry Hills like her father who thought ‘she was mad’ for setting out to show at The Highland, the Great Yorkshire Show and the Royal Welsh in the same show season.

Roll on the final day...🎉🏅