Great Yorkshire Show 2022: what's on and how to get to the show

The show hopes to attract around 140,000 people this year.

The Great Yorkshire Show returns this week with around 140,000 people expected to descend on the showground in Harrogate between Tuesday and Friday.

The show celebrates the very best of our region's culture, food and farming. This year there are brand new shows and classes to mark the 163rd anniversary of the event.

For the very first time, the show will host Sheep Dog Trials taking place twice a day in the Main Ring alongside a host of other activities across the four days.

Singer Lizzie Jones and former Calendar presenter Christine Talbot are among the celebrities due to appear.

Ms Talbot will host a chat show with a different farming celebrity each day including JB Gill from boy band JLS on Wednesday, and Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda Owen on Friday.

On the Great Yorkshire Show stage some of the top animals will compete in popular cattle competitions that will attract a variety of international interest this year.

There will be around 350 competitive sheep classes, including two new national breed shows this year for the Dorset Horn and Poll Dorset and Valais Blacknose Sheep societies.

There will be three new showjumping classes this year, with showjumping held in the TopSpec White Rose ring for the first time.

What other events are happening at the Great Yorkshire Show?

  • Sheep Shearing

  • Shoemaking

  • Wool Fleeces

  • Art Show

  • Game Cookery Theatre

  • Forestry: Wood Crafts - Turning, Carving, Marquetry and Stick-making demonstrations

  • Pig Rings: Traditional Breed classes

  • Goat Rings: Second Milking competition, Goatlings and Female Kids, Novice Goat Handler Competition

  • Cattle Rings: Beef Breed Classes

The Great Yorkshire Showground is based on the A661 Wetherby Road south of Harrogate. Credit: Great Yorkshire Show

How do I get to the Great Yorkshire Show?

Shuttlebus

  • Transdev, The Harrogate Bus Company, operates a free return bus service from Harrogate Bus Station, next to the Railway Station, to the Showground starting daily at 7:30am until 6:30pm.

  • Wheelchair access will be limited on the service.

  • Buses depart every 20 minutes from the town centre and the service will be free.

  • There will be no service from Hornbeam Park station.

  • A direct route from Hornbeam Park station to the Showground is now available via the Showground Greenway and this will be signed over the show days.

Bus

  • Transdev, The Harrogate Bus Company, will be running the number 7 bus from Leeds and Wetherby every 30 mins and goes right past to the showground entrance.

  • There will be no need to catch the shuttle bus from Harrogate.

Train

  • Northern Rail trains run from Leeds, Knaresborough and York. 

  • Trains run every half hour between Leeds and Harrogate and every hour between York and Harrogate. Then use the free shuttle bus.

Bikes

  • Secure bike parking is available at Blue Gate and White Gate.

  • A traffic management steward will assist you in finding these entrances.

Parking

  • Car parking is free of charge and extensive at the Great Yorkshire Showground.

  • Car parks open at 6am each day.