"Broad Street in a cress-farm town, third Sunday of the month. Everything local. Nothing superfluous. The right kind of Sunday."
Alresford 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
"One of Hampshire's finest one-day agricultural shows at Tichborne Park since 1908, with prize livestock, horse competitions, vintage machinery, local food and a full countryside celebration."
Alresford Show
"The grounds of the National Motor Museum in the New Forest become the largest outdoor sale of motoring items in Europe each September, where thousands of traders spread automobiliana, spares, tools and historic vehicles across the fields of Beaulieu estate in a weekend that the motoring world plans its diary around."
Beaulieu International Autojumble
"A one-day Hampshire show by the Test valley with livestock, heavy horses and a grand parade."
Romsey Show
"Whitewool Farm at East Meon, tucked in the chalk valley below Old Winchester Hill in the South Downs, hosts the Petersfield district ploughing match each autumn where the downland light and the long views south give ploughing competition a backdrop rarely matched in southern England."
Petersfield District Ploughing Match
"A warm Hampshire village evening of handbell ringers, mulled wine and local small businesses opening in the parish hall on a late November Thursday, the kind of Christmas market that has never tried to be anything other than itself."
Ropley Christmas Market
"The de Rothschild gardens in the New Forest open their gates for two festive weekends with more than 75 local producers, a Father Christmas in a steam railway carriage and an illuminated night train through the woodland after dark."
Exbury Christmas Fair
"The wide Georgian high street of New Alresford dresses for a Victorian-themed Christmas market where independent boutiques and local producers spread onto the broad pavements, making one of Hampshire's most handsome towns look exactly as a small-town Christmas should."
Alresford Victorian Christmas
"Set in the New Forest on the banks of the Beaulieu River, this Grade II* listed 200-acre woodland garden bursts each spring with the Rothschild collection of rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias, all accessible by a narrow-gauge steam railway."
Exbury Gardens Spring Season
"Flour is distributed to villagers on Lady Day under a medieval bequest said to carry a curse if ever stopped."
Tichborne Dole
"Britain's largest working steam collection erupts into life for two days in South Downs woodland, with Edwardian fairground rides, narrow-gauge railways and a traction engine that once pulled a whole circus."
Hollycombe Festival of Steam
"A walled park, 100+ local producers, and an afternoon that has a habit of turning into a very good evening."
South Downs Food Festival
"A harbour town that comes properly alive in midsummer, stalls on the quayside, live music, and the smell of the sea all day."
Emsworth Summer Festival
"A small family-run folk festival on the family's own farm at the edge of the New Forest, drawing big names like Skerryvore and Fisherman's Friends to a famously friendly field."
New Forest Folk Festival
"A rain-or-shine community procession from Hale School Field to the Green Recreation Ground, with float judging and a beloved village tradition kept alive entirely by local volunteers."
Hale Village Carnival
"Three operas including La Boheme, Eugene Onegin and Handel's Giulio Cesare are performed across 26 summer nights in the neo-classical Grange at Northington, a Hampshire country house of exceptional theatrical beauty."
The Grange Festival
"In its 10th year, Lymington Seafood Festival fills Bath Road Park with over 80 seafood stalls, a chefs stage, cookery school classes and a new drinks stage in the New Forest coast market town, with the harbour as backdrop."
Lymington Seafood Festival
"For one free day, 140 acts and roaming street performers take over more than 25 venues across the little market town of Romsey with folk, morris dance and brass."
Beggars Fair
"A Test Valley market town fete that brings together the whole community for an afternoon on the recreation ground, raising funds for local charities with stalls, games and local entertainment."
Whitchurch Parish Fete
"Hampshire's biggest steam and craft show pairs rack-saw benches and threshing machines with three days of evening entertainment on Meadow Mead Farm."
Netley Marsh Steam & Craft Show
"Three July days at New Park, Brockenhurst: New Forest ponies, cattle from across the south, local food, country sports, and a showground set inside one of England's ancient royal hunting grounds."
New Forest and Hampshire County Show
"Four days of roots, folk and rock music on a Hampshire farm near a medieval village, with headliners alongside comedy, theatre, storytelling and workshops in a festival that has won Best UK Festival for its relaxed, family-friendly atmosphere."
Wickham Festival
"On the first Sunday of August the entire high street of one of England's smallest market towns closes to traffic as local food and craft traders take over Stockbridge's famous single street."
Stockbridge Trout n About
"A volunteer-run charity show at Somerley Park since 1947 on the edge of the New Forest, with main ring attractions, animals, 120 trade stands and a full day of Hampshire countryside at its best."
Ellingham and Ringwood Agricultural Show