Fun events in the UK this July

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WORLD MOUNTAIN BIKE BOG SNORKELLING CHAMPIONSHIPS
When: July 2012 (exact date tbc)
Where: Waen Rhydd peat bog, Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys, mid Wales
The World Mountain Bike Bog Snorkelling Championships are held in Waen Rhydd peat bog and attract about 40 riders. Started up by local man Gordon Green in 1998, competitors must cycle two lengths of a six-foot deep trench which is 45 yards long on a special lead-weighted bike. They must also wear a weighted backpack. The winner takes home a glass engraved goblet.

WORLD PEA SHOOTING CHAMPIONSHIPS
When: 14 July 2012
Where: Village Green, Witcham, Cambridgeshire
This international event brings challengers from as far as New Zealand and the USA to compete for the World Pea Shootingtrophy. Accuracy, not distance, is the aim of this competition, with contestants shooting a pea through a 12-inch tube, 12 feet towards a 12-inch target. Competition is fierce and laser-guided shooters for specialists are not uncommon, taking pea shooting into the 21st Century. Pea shooters and peas can be bought at the event.

DUNMOW FLITCH TRIALS
When: 14 July 2012
Where: Great Dunmow, Essex
The Dunmow Flitch Trials exist to award a flitch of bacon to married couples from anywhere in the world, if they can satisfy the Judge and Jury of 6 maidens and 6 bachelors that in 'twelvemonth and a day', they have 'not wisht themselves unmarried again'.
A reference to The Dunmow Flitch can even be found in The Wife of Bath's Tale within Chaucer's 14th century Canterbury Tales. The Flitch Trials are held every 4 years in Great Dunmow, Essex

WORLD SNAIL RACING CHAMPIONSHIPS
When: 21 July 2012
Where: The Cricket Field, Lynn Road, Congham, Norfolk
Ready, Steady, Slow! For more than 25 years, the World Snail Racing Championships have been held at Congham, near King's Lynn, in Norfolk. More than 300 snails slug it out for the title of 'Fastest Snail in the World' at the World Snail Racing Championships. Anyone with a snail can enter and a number of heats are held before the grand final. The winner receives a silver tankard stuffed with lettuce. The world record is held by a snail called Archie who completed the 13-inch course (set up on top of a table) in two minutes.

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