Great Knaresborough Bed Race 2027

• 📅Sat 12 Jun 2027 · 12:00
• 📍Knaresborough Castle and River Nidd — All events
  Knaresborough Castle, Castle Yard, Knaresborough HG5 8AS, United Kingdom
• 🎫Free entry

The Great Knaresborough Bed Race is a long-running annual event in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, in which decorated beds — each pushed or pulled by a team and often carrying a passenger — are paraded through the town before teams race with them over a challenging course that ends with a swim across the River Nidd. Combining fancy dress, creativity and athletic endurance, it's one of the town's b