"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
"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
"An award-winning one-day agricultural show set against the backdrop of the National Trust's Knightshayes Court, celebrating the best of rural Mid Devon."
Mid Devon Show
"A century-old one-day agricultural show set in a sheltered valley near Totnes, with livestock, vintage vehicles, and classic country-show entertainment."
Totnes and District Show
"Started as a horse show and still built around the grand parade of Shires, ponies and hounds, Woolsery Show is 120 years of North Devon rural life in a single summer Monday near the dramatic Clovelly coast."
Woolsery Show
"A traditional one-day agricultural show held at Kitley Lawns each summer, a much-loved fixture on the South Devon rural calendar."
Yealmpton Show
"A week of folk music, dance and song fills this Regency seaside town and its clifftop arena."
Sidmouth Folk Festival
"A traditional one-day agricultural show run by a registered charity at Umberleigh Barton Farm, celebrating rural North Devon life with livestock, horses, and a dog show."
North Devon Show
"The home of Dartmoor step dance and broom dance competitions, with ferret racing, two village pubs full of music and the late Bob Cann's broad Devon welcome."
Dartmoor Folk Festival
"A traditional one-day show on the edge of Dartmoor with livestock, horticulture and terrier racing."
Chagford Show
"The Levellers' fiercely independent family festival runs six stages with no sponsorship, a Magic Teapot, folk sessions and a different fancy-dress theme every Sunday."
Beautiful Days
"A fair running since 1888 in honour of a farmer who baked an enormous apple pie from his windfall apples, still serving apple pie and cream alongside falconry and a novelty dog show."
Marldon Apple Pie Fair
"The Dartmoor fair of the Uncle Tom Cobley song, still run on the second Tuesday of September with sheep, ponies, bale tossing and a downhill race, in a village that wears its own folk legend lightly."
Widecombe Fair
"Young world-class singers and players perform vocal and chamber music in the ancient parish churches of the Dartmoor villages around Chagford, with free entry for the under-25s."
Whiddon Autumn Festival
"Devon's county ploughing championship brings competitors to Mid Devon farmland each autumn, where red soil and deep Devon banks create the conditions for what ploughmen here consider among the most technically demanding ploughing ground in England."
Devon County Ploughing Championship
"A charter fair famous in Devon song, filling the stannary town's streets with stalls and rides each October."
Tavistock Goosey Fair
"The illuminated carnival procession through Ottery St Mary three weeks before Tar Barrel Night, with floats, fancy dress and the whole town building momentum toward its most extraordinary annual tradition."
Ottery St Mary Carnival
"A street fair dating to a 13th century charter, once a pony fair, now stalls and rides through the Devon town."
Bampton Charter Fair
"On Guy Fawkes Night itself, locals carry flaming tar-soaked barrels through the crowds outside Ottery St Mary's pubs in a fire custom that has been performed annually on this Devon high street for over 400 years."
Ottery St Mary Tar Barrel Rolling
"Townsfolk hoist barrels soaked in tar and set alight onto their shoulders and run them flaming through packed Devon streets on bonfire night, a roaring, slightly terrifying inheritance passed down through local families."
Ottery St Mary Tar Barrels
Villagly Award · Fieriest Night in the UK ✦ Weird & Wonderful"Locals shoulder flaming barrels of tar and carry them blazing through the seaside town centre in a fiery survival of an old Devon Bonfire Night custom."
Seaton Tar Barrels
✦ Weird & Wonderful"Villagers ring the church bells discordantly to scare off evil then heave a one-tonne boulder over with crowbars to keep the Devil trapped beneath for another year."
Turning the Devil's Stone
✦ Weird & Wonderful"Blazing tar barrels are dragged through this West Devon town on sleds at dawn, followed by a torchlit procession of tractor-pulled tableaux and marching bands."
Hatherleigh Carnival and Tar Barrels
✦ Weird & Wonderful"A brass band leads a candlelit procession down Clovelly's famously cobbled, car-free street to the harbour, where carols, Christmas grog, and fireworks over Bideford Bay raise funds for the village RNLI."
Clovelly RNLI Christmas Lights Switch On
"Lantern-lit crowds gather around the community orchard for an apple-blessing ceremony with Morris dancing, folk song and mulled scrumpy on a cold January night."
Stoke Gabriel Wassail
✦ Weird & Wonderful"Torch-bearing villagers process from orchard to orchard with pots and pans to wake the apple trees, ending with refreshments at the cricket club."
Whimple Wassail
✦ Weird & Wonderful"A traditional Dartmoor village May Day on the medieval village green, with maypole dancing, crowning of the May Queen, Grimspound Border Morris dancers, and classic fairground games."
Lustleigh May Day
"A masked hobby horse and grenadiers hunt a costumed Earl through the village before casting him into the sea."
Hunting of the Earl of Rone
"A Devon village drapes its lanes in scarecrows each June, closes with Songs of Praise in All Saints Church, and throws the Roger Conant Duck Race down the village stream for two days of family fun."
East Budleigh Scarecrow Festival
"A small volunteer-run seaside festival spills Morris sides, ceilidhs and folk music across the back beach and seafront of a Devon estuary town."
Teignmouth Folk Festival
"Eight gardens open along the winding lanes of a postcard village above the River Dart, with a plant stall on The Level and two riverside pubs serving in support of Rowcroft Hospice."
Dittisham Open Gardens