"A volunteer-run, free-entry community festival on Tenterden Recreation Ground blending live music, stalls, a dog show and family entertainment in the heart of the Weald."
Spirit of Tenterden Festival
"Three days of free music on the Kent seafront: shanties, folk songs, workshops, jamming sessions and market stalls rolling across a summer weekend by the North Sea."
Herne Bay Folk Festival
"Kent's largest line-up of traction, wagon, roller and showman engines works a threshing and saw-bench area beside a Victorian carousel at Little Engeham Farm."
Weald of Kent Steam & Country Show
"Eight days, 400 events, 20 venues across a Kentish coastal town. Concerts, ceilidhs, a parade and over 160 free events. The kind of week that makes a modest seaside town briefly essential."
Broadstairs Folk Week
"A beloved volunteer-run community show at Holden Farm gathering up to 300 vintage and classic tractors alongside family entertainment, live music and rural crafts to raise funds for local causes."
Biddenden Tractorfest
"A Surrey and Kent border show that runs across August Bank Holiday weekend with genuine character: horses, cattle, show jumping, and the Weald at its most golden."
Edenbridge and Oxted Agricultural Show
"Set in the grounds of the historic Quex Park estate, this established two-day country show celebrates British countryside traditions with main-ring displays, crafts and family entertainment."
Kent Country Show
"Hop-picking made this Kentish market town. Every September the harvest reclaims the streets: real ale, folk dancing, a parade, stalls and the smell of hops in the air. Free to attend."
Faversham Hop Festival
"Whitstable's reborn oyster festival, in its 5th year, fills the Grading Shed, East Quay and Long Beach with the historic Oyster Landing Ceremony, live music, a mud tug-of-war, a samba procession and Marshall Jefferson on the Saturday night."
Whitstable Rocks Oyster Festival
"Horse and tractor ploughing judged furrow by furrow across a Kent stubble field, with a farmers market, gymkhana and the unhurried social weather of a working country day."
Weald of Kent Ploughing Match
"On the wide clay plateau of the Hoo Peninsula above the Thames estuary, ploughmen from across Kent compete at Newlands Farm in an autumn match where the vast skies and the distant flicker of the estuary light add a particular melancholy grandeur to the furrows."
Cliffe Ploughing Match
"Kent's largest free-to-enter food festival takes over the clifftop town of Broadstairs each early October, bringing together the county's cheese, hop, apple and sea-caught fish producers in a harbour town that smells of the sea and autumn simultaneously and where Charles Dickens once came to think."
Broadstairs Food Festival
"Two weeks of classical concerts, theatre, circus, talks and family events filling Canterbury Cathedral and historic venues across this ancient city, one of England's longest-running arts festivals and the cultural heartbeat of Kent each autumn."
Canterbury Festival
"Set among the National Fruit Collection's two thousand apple varieties, the fair lets you taste forgotten heritage fruit and tour the living orchard library that holds them."
Brogdale Apple Fair
"This Kent town builds an eleven metre satirical effigy of a chosen public figure each year and blows it sky high with gunpowder and flame."
Edenbridge Bonfire
✦ Weird & Wonderful"The wide High Street of this Wealden market town fills with over 100 stalls for ten days each November, coinciding with the Christmas tree lights switch-on and drawing visitors from across Kent for street food, artisan groceries and handmade crafts across three outdoor stages."
Tenterden Christmas Market
"Costumed Dickens characters, carol singers and guaranteed snow flurries fill the old high street beneath the Norman castle and cathedral."
Rochester Dickensian Christmas
"One of England's oldest surviving charitable customs, this Easter Monday distribution of bread, cheese, and twin-stamped biscuits from the Old Workhouse on Sissinghurst Road commemorates the legendary 12th-century conjoined Chulkhurst twins who bequeathed their land to the village poor."
Biddenden Dole
"Each spring, the 10 acres of ancient woodland at this privately owned High Weald estate are carpeted in native bluebells, with a circular walk past a restored 18th-century ice house and a real-time Bluebell Barometer to help visitors catch the peak display."
Hole Park Bluebell Spectacular
"A family May Day weekend at a Tudor castle with maypole dancing demonstrations and participation, an interactive Green Man play on the castle forecourt, and a traditional tug of war."
Hever Castle May Day Weekend
"A cherished Kent village parade through decorated streets ending at the recreation field for a traditional fete with arena events, with all entry proceeds going to charity."
Knockholt Village Carnival
"Dozens of walled town gardens open in one of England's best-preserved medieval market towns, alongside a garden market in the ancient centre."
Faversham Open Gardens and Garden Market