CELEBRATIONS to mark Yorkshire Day ranging from offers of free Yorkshire Tea, to jousting and Yorkshire Pudding throwing will be taking place up and down God’s Own County.

All things Yorkshire will be on the menu, to celebrate the annual event tomorrow, August 1.

At Swinton Bivouac, a woodland and meadow glamping enterprise at High Knowle, near Masham, there will be local food and drink stalls, live music, kite flying, archery and craft activities for children.

Mother Shipton’s Cave, in Knaresborough, which has fascinated visitors since 1630 with its petrifying well and associations with the prophetess, will be providing a free cup of Yorkshire Tea to visitors in its tearoom, while York Maze attraction, at Elvington near York, will be staging a straw bale race, where competitors roll a giant round bale of straw around a 50m course. They will also be staging a Yorkshire pudding tossing contest at 1pm to find the Yorkshire Pudding Throwing Champion.

Scarborough Castle will be staging a medieval battle with four teams of armoured knights fighting with traditional weapons and other medieval-themed events.

At Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, near Ripon, a pop-up barbecue will be held at the Studley tearoom, while at Whitby Abbey, the story of Dracula will be retold in the setting of Bram Stoker’s inspiration.

In Great Ayton, the tourist information centre will be encouraging people to try Yorkshire food and locally-made produce from a marquee on the High Green and giving away information on the county’s attractions and walking and cycling routes.

Train operator, First TransPennine Express, is decorating stations with white rose bunting while station staff at Northallerton, Thirsk, Malton and Scarborough will be giving out ''appy Yorkshire Day' flags to people passing through the stations, and will also be wearing Yorkshire white rose pin badges in support of the annual event.

Mike Drewery, First TransPennine Express' station manager, said: "We're very proud of our role in connecting millions of people each year across the Yorkshire region. This is our own little of way of celebrating Yorkshire Day with people travelling into the region, and recognising Yorkshire's fantastic historical and cultural heritage."

Yorkshire Day was first established by the Yorkshire Ridings Society in 1975, following the controversial Local Government re-organisation of 1974, which resulted in the traditional boundaries of West, North and East Ridings of Yorkshire being redrawn and the creation of Humberside until it was abolished in 1996.

The Yorkshire Ridings Society will be reading maintaining their tradition of reading their official declaration of the integrity of Yorkshire at the four historic gates to the city along its ancient city walls.