Horse fair

A horse fair is a (typically annual) fair where people buy and sell horses.

In the United Kingdom there are many fairs which are traditionally attended by Romani people and travellers who converge at the fairs to buy and sell horses, meet with friends and relations and to celebrate their music, history and folklore.

Many horse fairs are centuries old, dating back to the 16th century, such as the Appleby Horse Fair and The Great October Fair in Ballinasloe.

List of important horse fairs in the United Kingdom Appleby Horse Fair, Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria Ballyclare May Fair, Ballyclare, County Antrim Barnet Fair, Barnet, London Brigg Fair, Brigg, Lincolnshire Dartmoor Drift, Dartmoor, Devon Horncastle Horse Fair, Lincolnshire Lee Gap, Yorkshire Stow Fair, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire Wickham Horse Fair, Wickham, Hampshire Widecombe Fair, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Devon

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See also Stow Fair, Lincolnshire, lost medieval fair which continued as a horse fair until 1954 Banagher Horse Fair, in Banagher, County Offaly, Ireland Ballinasloe Horse Fair, in Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland Tallow Horse Fair, in Tallow, County Waterford, Ireland

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