"The King's Swan Marker and Livery Companies row six traditional skiffs upstream from Sunbury to Abingdon over five days, counting and marking every mute swan on the Thames in a ceremony unchanged since the 12th century."
Royal Swan Upping
✦ Weird & Wonderful"Founded in 1998 as a birthday party that got out of hand, Truck is a fiercely independent four-day music festival on a working farm that has championed new British indie and alternative talent for nearly three decades."
Truck Festival
"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
"Fairport Convention host a vast folk-rock reunion in a field beside this Oxfordshire canal village each August."
Fairport's Cropredy Convention
"A small, inclusive festival that feels like a weekend-long party, with daily singarounds, sessions and workshops where everyone is invited to play a part."
White Horse Folk Festival
"Held on Blur bassist Alex James's Cotswolds farm over August Bank Holiday, this festival blends headline music acts with Michelin-starred chefs, street food producers and family activities in an idyllic rural setting."
The Big Feastival
"Specialist nurseries gather in the historic gardens of Adwell House beneath the Chiltern Hills for an autumn Rare Plant Fair, offering unusual and hard-to-find plants in an intimate estate setting."
Rare Plant Fair at Adwell House
"The handsome Oxfordshire market town of Thame fills its wide high street with artisan food and drink producers on the last weekend of September, a free festival that draws chefs for demonstrations and locals for the kind of independent food stalls that national food courts have been failing to replicate for thirty years."
Thame Food Festival
"Ten days of author talks, debates and performances filling the regatta town of Henley-on-Thames each October, one of England's most distinguished literary festivals in one of its most beautiful river settings."
Henley Literary Festival
"An autumn celebration of heritage and unusual apple varieties held in the beautiful walled gardens at Waterperry, featuring specialist nurseries, tastings and seasonal planting advice."
Apple Weekend at Waterperry Gardens
"The FFF&B Ploughing Society rotates its autumn competition between farms in the Cotswold Water Park country south of Burford, where the flat river gravel fields and the stone walls of the Windrush villages provide a classic setting for working horses and steel ploughs to contest the straightest furrow."
Fairford Faringdon Filkins and Burford Ploughing Match
"Sixty handpicked chalets fill the Great Court of Blenheim Palace for five weeks, with artisan gifts, seasonal food and drink and a Cinderella-themed illuminated light trail winding through the palace grounds after dark."
Blenheim Palace Christmas Market
"Burford's historic high street and medieval St John the Baptist Church host a combined Christmas market with over 20 craft stalls and a festive lights switch-on at The Tolsey, drawing the whole town together on the last Saturday of November."
Burford Christmas
"The handsome market town at the gates of Blenheim Palace dresses its stone streets for a Victorian Christmas each late November, with costumed traders, a Santa parade and independent shops that have been taking Christmas seriously in this Oxfordshire town for longer than the great park next door has had public visitors."
Woodstock Victorian Christmas
"Britain's oldest and largest open studios festival, Oxfordshire Artweeks unlocks over a thousand artists' homes, rural studios, Cotswold village halls, and historic gardens across the county for three free weeks each May."
Oxfordshire Artweeks
"One of England's oldest unbroken Morris traditions, three Bampton sides dance through the streets from early morning until dusk on Spring Bank Holiday Monday, accompanied by fiddle and pipe and tabor."
Bampton Morris Dancing
"Tucked into the Chiltern beech woods at Hill Bottom, this friendly village rally lets children in free among the puffing engines and trade stalls."
Stoke Row Steam Rally
"Run by the Banbury Steam Society, this Oxfordshire field fills with steam engines, shire horses, tank driving and a Battle of Britain flypast."
Bloxham Steam & Country Fair
"A quintessential summer fete held in the grounds of Kingston Bagpuize House, a handsome manor garden with unusual planting that doubles as one of Oxfordshire's most charming outdoor settings."
Kingston Bagpuize Village Fete
"A genuinely traditional village fete held in the walled gardens of Sotwell House, combining a competitive flower and produce show with coconut shy, bottle tombola, silver band and homemade teas."
Brightwell cum Sotwell Village Fete and Flower Show