The quirky English village that’s becoming very famous for ‘throwing knobs’

BRITAIN has immoderate beauteous unusual pastimes - food rolling, bog snorkelling and conker championships.

But nary of them are some arsenic wholesome and rude-sounding arsenic Dorset's knob-throwing contest... which has gone amazingly under-the-radar fixed its catchy name.

The contented began successful 2008, erstwhile the contention started astatine a section festival successful the Dorset colony of Cattistock.

Inspired by a Yorkshire pudding crippled connected the television, locals competed to spot who could propulsion a 'Dorset knob' furthest.

A Dorset knob being a crumbly saccharine biscuit that's arsenic hard arsenic stale breadstuff - named aft the 'Dorset knob button,' which were buttons made retired of yarn successful the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

Participants decorate their knobs with pen, to marque them easy recognisable, and past lob them arsenic acold arsenic they tin - with the existent satellite grounds astatine 31.9 metres.

Those who are peculiarly keen to transportation connected competing tin besides instrumentality portion successful the knob and spoon race, pin the knob, knob darts and 'guess the value of the knob.'

There was a break successful the contention for the past fewer years, but it made its large instrumentality astatine the Cattistock Country Show past July.

Understandably, the contented has drawn rather a fig of visitors since it archetypal started sixteen years ago.

But Cattistock itself is simply a 'classic English village' according to the assemblage website successful the bosom of Thomas Hardy state (Thomas Hardy was seemingly a large instrumentality of Dorset knobs).

It's quintessentially colony quaint, with thatched roofs and a colony greenish that hosts everything from cricket to bowls.

First mentioned successful the Domesday Book, it lone had 509 residents successful the 2011 census - that's 9 much than it had 100 years previously.

It's besides location to the Fox And Hound pub, a 17th Century inn with roaring log occurrence and adjacent its ain skittle alley.

There's plentifulness to bash successful the surrounding country too, including paying a sojourn to the adjacent Cerne Giant - the mysterious bare fig carved into a chalk hillside.

For the adrenline-seekers, there's the Clay Pigeon Raceway go-kart way and the Jurassic safari is besides adjacent for nature-lovers.

Meanwhile, Weymouth and each its accepted seaside attractions, and the stunning West Dorset Heritage Coast are conscionable a 30-minute thrust away.

Weymouth regularly tops the lists of the UK's champion beaches, including past twelvemonth by some TripAdvisor and The Times and Sunday Times, with it coming successful for praise for its "Weymouth’s litter-free sands, first-class facilities and large chippies."