FOLK BRITAIN (HB)

Each May in Gloucestershire, contestants embark on an ankle-shattering pursuit of an enormous wheel of cheese down a 26-degree hill. In August, a man utterly covered in burdock seeds and burrs ambles 9 miles through Queensferry, getting progressively drunker on whisky offered by locals. On Bonfire Night, the residents of Ottery St Mary proceed through the streets with flaming tar barrels on their backs. Here are over 100 rituals and traditions that mark changing seasons, unite communities and offer insight into cultural identities in Britain.