Country Fest, Crooklands, Cumbria

18/06/2026

RBST Young Shepherd Competition:

A huge congratulations to everyone that took part in this year's Young Shepherd competition! It was fantastic to see so many entries once again. The results were as follows ➡️

🏆Champion Young Shepherd - Lily Armstrong
🏆Reserve Champion Young Shepherd - Albert Leigh

🐑Young Shepherds
Judge - Lyn Arrowsmith and Sammy Brown

Under 7 Young Shepherd - Albert Leigh
Novice Young Shepherd - Freya Morphet
8 - 12 Young Shepherd - Lily Armstrong
13 - 16 Young Shepherd - Leah Parker
17 - 21 Young Shepherd - Zara Clough

⭐️Supreme champion sheep
Torwen Badger Face ewe from Oliver Clark

⭐️Reserve Supreme champion
Derbyshire Gritstone tup lamb from Abigail Derbyshire

We hope to see you all again next year!

12/06/2026

School Growing Challenges 2026 🌿🌻

A huge well done to all of the school groups that entered our School Growing Challenges at Country Fest! There was a lovely variety of entries in both classes.

Congratulations to all of the winners! 🏆

🪴Sensory Garden Planter:
1st = Crosscrake CE Nursery and Primary School

🥕British Food on a Plate:
1st = Immy, Selside Endowed CE Primary School

12/06/2026

Sew Crafty Results 🪡🧵
This section was kindly sponsored by CoolCrafting

Congratulations to everyone that entered the Sew Crafty competition at Country Fest. There was a wonderful variety of entries from photography to knitting and woodwork! 📸

➡️Well done to the best exhibits overall!

🏆Best Exhibit in Children's Classes - Eden
🏆Best Exhibit in Adult Classes - K.Harrison

11/06/2026

Rabbit Section - Results 🐰

Once again, Country Fest saw a lovely variety of rabbits entered into our rabbit section! A huge congratulations to all of the winners - we hope to see you all again next year🏆

🥇BIS Best Rex Ermine ad - P&T Claybrough
🥇Best Fur Conti Giant ad - Doubledee Stud
🥇Best Lop REW Dwarf Lop ad - P Atkinson
🥇Best Fancy Black Tan ad - Freebairn & Scott
🥇Best Youth Marten Seal Rex ad - Ava Nevinson
🥇Best Pet - Dev Jean Tomkinson

10/06/2026

Bake a Cake 🍰
Kindly sponsored by Sweet Treats By Martin Frickel

It was lovely to see such fantastic creations in our 'Bake a Cake' competition this year. A huge congratulations to all our of winners in both the adult and children's classes🥇

Full list of results below ⬇️

09/06/2026

Floral Design - Results 🌸🏆

The Floral Design Marquee was, once again, full of incredible floral displays at this year's Country Fest...

The overall results were as follows:
🥇Best Individual Exhibit - S Fairhurst
🥇Most Innovative Exhibit - K Shaw
🥇Best Garden Plant Material - J Farkins
🥇Best Use of Texture - L Bottomley
🥇People's Choice Award - K Hough
🥇Runner up to Best individual Exhibit - J Burns
🥇Best Pedestal Exhibit - J Farkins

A huge well done to everyone that entered the competition this year, the standard of entries was amazing!

08/06/2026

⭐️Country Fest 2026 ⭐️

➡️How has it already been over a week since Country Fest?

It was lovely to see so many people enjoying their weekend. The sun was shining, the kites were flying and the bandstand kept everyone dancing throughout their visit 🎶

A huge thank you to Louise Thompson Photography for capturing some wonderful moments at the event! 📸

We'd love to hear about your favourite part of the weekend!

08/06/2026

Egg Classes - Results🥚🏆

This year, Country Fest saw a fantastic display of eggs in our Poultry Tent! A huge thank you to Geldard Farm Eggs for kindly sponsoring this section.

Well done to the best exhibits in the egg classes:

🥇Best Exhibit = R H Dickinson
🥇Best Children's Exhibit = Phoebe

07/06/2026

🐾🏆The results are in...

Over the next few days, we will be sharing all of the results from the competitions that were held throughout Country Fest weekend so keep an eye on our social media to see how everyone has got on!

First up, our Companion Dog Show, held on Saturday 30th May.
This section was kindly sponsored by Vets4Pets 🐕

Best Puppy - Tyson
Reserve Best Puppy - Buddy

Best Veteran - Daisy
Reserve Best Veteran - Holly

Best in Show - Barney
Reserve Best in Show - Zephyr

04/06/2026

A huge 'THANK YOU' to all of our volunteers that joined us for Country Fest 2026! Your hard work doesn't go unnoticed and we wouldn't be able to run the event without you all⭐️

Volunteers' Week 2026 🥳

➡️This Volunteers' Week, we celebrate the fantastic volunteers that we have at the Westmorland County Agricultural Society.

All of our events require lots of volunteers in order to run and we simply wouldn't be able to do it without everyone's hard work behind the scenes...

🌸Country Fest - 70 volunteers
🐑Westmorland County Show - 250 Volunteers
🐓Farm Open Days - 155 Volunteers & 75 demonstrators!

Thank you to everyone who has supported us - your help doesn't go unnoticed!

We are always looking for new volunteers to join the team...Why not get involved and be a part of something truly rewarding? ⭐️

For more information on becoming a volunteer, please contact the office:

📞015395 67804
💻[email protected]