"A cliff-top open-air theatre carved from Cornish granite above Porthcurno Bay, where productions from Shakespeare to musicals run each summer with the Atlantic as backdrop and Rowena Cade's extraordinary creation as the stage."
Minack Theatre Season
"Chester's Victorian park hosts a full summer season of theatre from late June through early September, with Shakespeare, new writing and family shows performed in an intimate outdoor setting a short walk from the city walls."
Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre
"Cambridge Street on a Thursday morning: local producers, unhurried browsing, and an excellent reason to be somewhere beautiful."
Harrogate Farmers Market
"Local growers and producers gather in the heart of this honey-stone Cotswold wool town high on the wolds."
Stow-on-the-Wold Farmers' Market
"A FARMA-accredited market spilling out of the historic Market Hall in a Westmorland Dales village just minutes off the M6, with church teas and primary-school stalls."
Orton Farmers' Market
"Around forty-five stalls of farmed goods and crafts gather on Ripley's beautiful village green, all run by volunteers who plough the profits back into local charities."
Ripley Farmers' Market
"An honest market town doing what market towns do, on the second Sunday of every month. The kind of morning that stays with you."
Bedale Farmers Market
"Cheese, bread and chocolate stalls set up in Roberts Park within Titus Salt's perfectly preserved Victorian model village and World Heritage Site."
Saltaire Farmers' Market
"A friendly community market held every third Saturday in the ancient village of Clun, running from 10am to noon and now established at Clun Memorial Hall, offering locally produced goods in the heart of one of South Shropshire's most picturesque villages."
Clun Village Market
"Broad Street in a cress-farm town, third Sunday of the month. Everything local. Nothing superfluous. The right kind of Sunday."
Alresford Farmers Market
"Dales farmers and makers fill the cobbled Market Square of this Wharfedale village with artisan bread, preserves and locally reared meat."
Grassington Farmers' Market
"Billed as the biggest in Devon, the Civic Square fills with food and craft stalls in this famously bohemian South Hams town."
Totnes Good Food Sunday Market
"A regular monthly market on Ludlow's historic Castle Square showcasing local growers, bakers, cheesemakers and food producers from across South Shropshire and the Marches."
Ludlow Local Producers' Market
"On the last Saturday of the month the Agricultural Business Centre fills with Peak District producers, in the town that gave its name to the pudding."
Bakewell Farmers' Market
"A multi-award-winning north Oxfordshire market where thirty stalls fill the Market Place and craft sellers spill into the church, even a Swedish cook in the mix."
Deddington Farmers' Market
"Gateway Square on the last Saturday of the month. New Forest produce, familiar faces, and no particular reason to rush home."
Ringwood Farmers Market
"A market under the Hartley Wintney oaks on the last Sunday of the month, Hampshire smallholders and bakers in a famously leafy village on the old coaching road."
Hartley Wintney Farmers' Market
"The Cathedral city's market, twice monthly. A Sunday morning with the High Street, the close, and nowhere better to be."
Winchester Market
"A fortnight of concerts, masterclasses and ensemble music-making at Gresham's School in the Georgian market town of Holt, continuing the tradition of the renowned Dartington International Summer School in a Norfolk setting."
Music Summer School and Festival
"The 40th anniversary edition fills Sherwood Forest with jousting tournaments, medieval encampments, archery demonstrations and arena performances across three weekends in August, drawing tens of thousands into the ancient Nottinghamshire woodland."
Robin Hood Festival
"A combined food and craft market held monthly on Ludlow's Castle Square, uniting independent food traders with local craft makers in one of England's finest market town settings."
Ludlow Food & Craft Market
"Rummage for vintage finds inside the historic Town Hall of one of England's smallest towns, with a veg stall tucked out front."
Bishop's Castle Antiques and Flea Market
"A small village market on the green in one of the prettiest villages in the Howardian Hills. Every first Saturday of the month."
Hovingham Farmers Market
"Now in its third decade, every stall on the Quay is run by the Devon grower or cook who made the produce, rain, shine, snow or wind."
Kingsbridge Farmers' Market
"A tiny Somerset Levels village hall market run by the parish church, serving bacon butties and toasted tea-cakes alongside organic lamb and Burrow Hill cider."
North Curry Produce Market
"Fifty-plus stalls of crafts and provisions spill across the Village Green while young local entrepreneurs hawk their wares and buskers play."
Ruddington Village Market
"A FARMA national award winner where over thirty producers fill the Georgian market square with food reared or made within fifty miles."
Stokesley Farmers' Market
"First Saturday of the month on the Memorial Gardens, with local produce, music and the steep stone streets of a former lead mining town climbing away on every side."
Wirksworth Farmers' Market
"A neighbourhood that takes its food seriously, doing what neighbourhoods should do on the first Sunday morning of every month."
Chapel Allerton Farmers Market
"A curated destination street market closing the streets of this creative Somerset town for contemporary designers, makers, vintage and street food."
The Frome Independent
"A sailing regatta with roots going back to 1837, combining competitive racing on the water with a Marching Carnival, live music, and a Pink Wig Parade ashore."
Falmouth Week
"For nine days every August this Wharfedale village fills its gardens, walls and doorways with handmade scarecrows, and half the fun is the treasure hunt of finding them all."
Kettlewell Scarecrow Festival
✦ Weird and Wonderful"One of the last Derbyshire wells dressed entirely in the old way with no nails or glue, just clay boards pressed petal by petal, blessed with a service and kept up for five days."
Barlow Well Dressing
"Three days of the finest Welsh dogs working sheep across a hill field near Brecon, with ice cream from Llanfaes Dairy and a real trial hush over the crowd."
Welsh National Sheepdog Trials
"The biggest steam engine rally in Cornwall brings around 70 full-size engines to Stithians Showground for three August days of steam trailer rides, threshing, wood sawing, stone crushing and a Saturday evening sheaf-pitching competition."
West of England Steam Engine Society Rally
"Suffolk's award-winning seaside carnival fills the shingle beach town of Aldeburgh across a summer Bank Holiday weekend, with a procession, 10K Mini Marathon, community events and the particular magic of carnival lights on the North Sea."
Aldeburgh Carnival