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A Calendar of British Holidays in the UK
Holidays and Notable Special Days in Great Britain Many festivals and holidays in Britain are centuries old. Every town, village and hamlet in Britain has its own traditions, some involving months of careful planning and preparations of costumes and choreography, others requiring simply a worrying desire to make a complete and utter fool of oneself. The 2012 calendar below contains the most important and well known festivals and popular events in Britain. If you are looking for the date of a particular holiday or festival in the UK, then you will find it here. Please also see our other calendars. January February March April May June July August September October November December Click here for all our calendars January 1st New Year's Day 5th Twefth Night February 1st Candlemas Day 14th Valentine's Day March 1st St David's Day (Wales National Day) 17th St. Patrick's Day (Ireland's Special Day) March/April Shrove Tuesday Lent Mothering Sunday Maundy Thursday Easter April 1st April Fool's Day 23rd St George's Day (England's National Day) May 1st May Day June Trooping the Colours Wimbledon Tennis Tournament July Swan Upping August Notting Hill Carnival September Harvest Festival October 31st Halloween November 5th Bonfire Night 11th Remembrance Day 30th St Andrew's Day (Scotland's National Day) December Advent 25th Christmas 26th Boxing Day

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Mandy is the creator of the Woodlands Resources section of the Woodlands Junior website. 
The two websites projectbritain.com and primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk are the new homes for the Woodlands Resources.

Mandy left Woodlands in 2003 to work in Kent schools as an ICT Consulatant. 
She now teaches computers at The Granville School and St. John's Primary School in Sevenoaks Kent.