List of county days in the United Kingdom
County days in the United Kingdom are relatively recent observances, formed to celebrate the cultural heritage of a particular British county.

List of county days in the United Kingdom

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Table Section Text: County days in the United Kingdom are relatively recent observances, formed to celebrate the cultural heritage of a particular British county.

County	Date	First observed	Origin

Bedfordshire	28 November	2015	Date decided by a public vote organised by The Friends of Bedfordshire society

Buckinghamshire	29 July	2015	Date selected to remember the founding of the Paralympic Movement at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, near Aylesbury.

Cornwall (St Piran's Day)	5 March	c1900 (Cornwall)	Previously a local holiday, revived as part of Cornish nationalism movement

Devon	4 June	Traditional	It is Saint Petroc’s Day

Dorset	1 June	Traditional	The Feast Day of St Wite.

Durham	20 March	Traditional	The Feast Day of St Cuthbert.

Huntingdonshire	25 April	2002	Huntingdonshire Society

Kent	26 May	Traditional	The feast day of Augustine of Canterbury, first Archbishop of Canterbury

Lancashire	27 November	1996	Friends of Real Lancashire

Lincolnshire (Lincolnshire Day)	1 October	2006	Commemorates Lincolnshire Rising 1536

Middlesex	16 May	c2003	John Randall originated early day motion

Norfolk	27 July	2018	Norfolk Day is a project between BBC Radio Norfolk and the Eastern Daily Press (EDP).

Northamptonshire	25 October	2014	The feast day of Saints Crispin and Crispinian, the patron saints of cobblers, date decided by a public vote

Orkney	16 April	Traditional	The feast day of Saint Magnus

Oxfordshire (Oxfordshire Day)	19 October	?	Also called Saint Frideswide's Day.

Shetland	21 June	Traditional	Celebrated in the Shetland Isles annually.

Shropshire	23 February	Traditional	The feast day of St Milburga, the abbess of Wenlock Priory, Shropshire.

Staffordshire	1 May	2016	Date decided by a public vote organised by Destination Staffordshire

Suffolk	21 June	2017

Sussex (Sussex Day, also known as St Richard's Day)	16 June	2007	The feast day of St Richard of Chichester, Sussex's patron saint Recognised by county councils of East and West Sussex

Yorkshire (Yorkshire Day)	1 August	1975	Yorkshire Ridings Society

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Sussex Day is the county day for the county of Sussex and is celebrated on 16 June to celebrate the heritage and culture of Sussex.

final_sentence: Sussex Day is the county day for the county of Sussex and is celebrated on 16 June to celebrate the heritage and culture of Sussex.