Royal Highland Show

The Royal Highland Show is Scotland's annual farming and countryside showcase. The show is organised by the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland.

Held annually at the Royal Highland Centre in Ingliston, over the second-last weekend in June (Thursday - Sunday), the event attracts over 1,000 exhibitors, 4,500 head of livestock, and up to 190,000 visitors. It is the premier fixture in Scotland's farming calendar and generates over £200 million in business. Exhibitors compete for the prestige of winning not only a prize ticket, but also for prize money and trophies worth over £1 million.

The show first started in 1822, and was located at Edinburgh’s Canongate on a site now occupied by the Scottish Parliament. From this point until 1959 the show moved around the towns and cities of Scotland, in one of the RHASS’s eight electoral areas - Perth, Stirling, Strathclyde, Aberdeen, Lothian, Borders, Dumfries & Galloway and Highland. In 1960 the Ingliston site became the permanent home of the show, opening on 21 June 1960. The move to a permanent location has helped the show develop beyond its original remit, to become a celebration of Scottish food, countryside and its farming.

Originally the show operated Sunday to Wednesday, but this was later changed to Thursday to Sunday, with Livestock competitions being held on the Thursday and Friday.

During the 1948 show held at Inverness, the Royal title was bestowed on the event by King George VI.

There was no show during 2001 because of the foot and mouth crisis.

In 2010 it reached the landmark anniversary of the 50th year of the show being held in Ingliston and also the 170th show to be staged. 2010 event had almost 190,000 people attending, which makes it more of the most visited event in years.The 2014 drew in 8,000 more visitors compared to 2013 with a total of 178,659 people attending the event.

In 2015, the show celebrated its 175th event, with its biggest number of visitors of 188,449 visitors were recorded - almost 10,000 higher than last year and 805 more than the previous record attendance at Ingliston in 2010. The show also had visits from Princess Anne, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead.

exhibited include sheep, cattle, goats, horses, ponies, donkeys, and poultry

One of the sights of the show is Heavy Horse Turnouts and for the first time ever, in 2006 Ingliston saw the attendance of all UK heavy horse breeds.Clydesdales, Shires, Percherons and — first time visitors to Scotland — two teams of Suffolk Punches travelling from Norfolk and Suffolk.

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