8. Holidays and Festivals in August

Lammas Day

The traditional harvest festival when the first bread was made from the new corn.

Yorkshire Day

Celebrates the historic English county of Yorkshire, the largest region in England. Alsoanniversary of the Battle of Minden which was in 1759.

Edinburgh Fringe Festival

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world.

Edinburgh International Festival

The Edinburgh International Festival presents a rich programme of classical music, theatre, opera and dance in six major theatres and concert halls and a number of smaller venues, over a three-week period in late summer each year.

The Glenn Miller Festival

The largest swing, jazz and jive music festival in the U.K., and is held at the historic RAF Twinwood Airfield where Glenn Miller （the WWII American band-leader） took his last flight.

Notting Hill Carnival

Around a million people take to the streets of Notting Hill in West London for the Notting Hill Carnival—Europe’s biggest carnival.

Fabulous floats make a colourful circuit of the area and sound systems blast out music all day.

Late Summer Bank Holiday （ Bank Holiday / Public Holiday ）

It is on last Monday in August, early August in Scotland.