Mid-Somerset Show

Founded over 150 years ago, the show displays and celebrates agriculture and livestock rearing, crafts and hobbies, local heritage and farming history.

Competitions are held for animals, produce and handicrafts in a wide range of classes.

[1] The show began life as a ploughing match between local farmers organised by the Evercreech Farmers Club but by the 1870s this had metamorphosed into a cattle show,[2] appropriate given the dairy farming in the region.

The show championed agricultural improvement and the increased saleability of two local products, Cheddar cheese and cider.

After the centenary year in 1952 the show gradually lost importance as older trades died and farming and food production became more industrialised.