Dorset Knob Throwing competition to return for 2025
This year's competition is due to take place at the Cattistock Countryside Show on the 10th of August
Last updated 2nd Jul 2025
Dorset's iconic Knob throwing competition is set to return for 2025!
The next edition sees competitors hurl round, biscuit-textured buns - known as Knobs - down a grassy pitch.
They're all made at Moore’s of Morecombelake - and have been since before the 1860s.
Traditionally they are also dipped in tea or cider or taken with honey & cream – known locally as “Thunder & Lightening”.
The contest all started when the villagers of Cattistock realised that they needed raise vital funds to keep the Cricket Club, Football Club, Playing Fields and Village Hall alive.
Local woman, Shelley Collins, came up with the idea of running a food festival.
She and her husband Nigel returned from a local cheese event, and thanks to inspiration from Robbie Coltrane's TV series 'B-Road Britain', and his antics at a Yorkshire Pudding Throwing Competition, they realised Dorset Knobs are much more aerodynamic than their Northern counterparts.
It's claimed to have a huge economic benefit for the local region.
Bosses behind the event claim, to date, the total sum raised by the Dorset Knob Throwing for the Cattistock village is in excess of £50,000.
The ‘Dorset Knob Throwing and Frome Valley Food Festival was born with inaugural event took place in May 2008.
This year's competition is due to take place at the Cattistock Countryside Show on the 10th of August.
You can find out more on the Cattistock Village website and on the Cattistock Countryside Show website.