The Bishop Wilton Show - 2012

Show News

The 114th Show will take place on the 21st July 2012

Put it in your diary now!

Some details from 2011 have been carried over so you can get a flavour of what is on offer.

Show Programme

Details for 2012 will be available in the new year. If you have any queries or comments about the Show get in touch via email.

Affiliations

The Bishop Wilton Show is affiliated to:

British Show Jumping Association (see the local website here)

Ponies Association (UK)

Shire Horse Society

Dartmoor Pony Society

It is also a participant in the Press Association Accumulator Competition for Agricultural Horses with Eastrington, Sykehouse and Howden shows.

Historical Background

It all started in 1897 as the Bishop Wilton Flower Show in a tent erected in the school yard. In the early days it was accompanied by a cricket match, sports, a brass band and an evening dance. By 1907 a competition for mares, foals, cows and pigs had been added.

Find out more about the very first Show on the Local History Site (including a copy of the first Show Programme). Also, the earliest known photograph of the Show, from 1923, can be viewed there.

There was a South African connection with the first Show which is explained in an article on the Local History site.