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🇬🇧 GOV.UK ~ Bank Holidays JSON (England/Scotland/NI)

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A single keyless JSON file split into england-and-wales, scotland and northern-ireland divisions, each with dated events and a 'bunting' flag; spans several years.

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curl 'https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays.json'

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API: GOV.UK ~ Bank Holidays JSON (England/Scotland/NI)
Provider: Government Digital Service
Endpoint: GET https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays.json
It returns JSON.

Source: Government Digital Service (https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays)
Source type: Official open-data catalogue
Endpoint type: Open-data catalogue JSON
Integration difficulty: Copy-paste ready
Last checked: 2026-07-05
Production caveat: Still handle empty rows, schema changes, pagination, stale coverage, and temporary upstream failures.

Help me fetch this and build a simple page that displays it nicely. Include basic production safeguards for errors, empty responses, schema changes, caching, and rate limits.

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