A quirky festival is set to make a triumphant return today.

The countdown is finally over for the Dorset Knob Festival and Knob Throwing games which is returning following a five-year hiatus.

It was last held in 2019 at Kingston Maurward near Dorchester but this year is to return close to its original home of Cattistock.

The 2024 Dorset Knob Festival will be held in Chilfrome, just quarter of a mile away from Cattistock as part of the Cattistock Countryside Show.

Proceeds from the festival will go to support the village of Cattistock and surrounding rural areas as part of the organizer’s rural community mission.

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First beginning in 2008, the festival pays homage to the traditional Dorset savoury knob biscuit, which had been made by the Moores family for more than 150 years.

The competition sees participants hurl a Dorset knob biscuit as far as they can to win prizes.

A range of knob-themed events are set to take place at the show including knob throwing, knob painting, a knob and spoon race, guess the weight of the big knob, and knob darts and pinning the knob on the Cerne Abbas Giant.

The event was cancelled in 2022 when organisers said the sheer number of people that attended back in 2019 - more than 8,000 - meant the occasion could no longer be run by a village committee.