"The medieval market town of Petworth, where Turner painted and Constable walked in the grounds of Petworth House, hosts its summer festival of classical music, literature and the arts across July and August, using the town's churches, the Leconfield Hall and the great house itself as venues in one of England's most quietly distinguished small festivals."
Petworth Festival
"Sixteen days of classical music, jazz and spoken word in the churches, halls and historic spaces of a handsome Sussex market town. Sheku Kanneh-Mason among the 2026 headliners."
Petworth Summer Festival
"The Findon Village Gardens Association fills the hall with prize blooms, vegetables, baking and handicrafts in a friendly South Downs show that has been a fixture of village life for decades."
Findon Village Summer Flower Show
"Ten August days and over 200 events transform this castle town into a celebration of music, drama, street art and bathtub racing, with Shakespeare performed in the Arundel Castle gardens each evening as the sun goes down."
Arundel Festival
"The Goodwood motor circuit returns to its 1948 specification each September for a three-day historic racing meeting where spectators and competitors alike wear period dress, the paddock smells of Castrol R, and ERA and pre-war Bentley machinery is raced in anger as though the last seventy years had not happened."
Goodwood Revival
"A South Downs village fair that has been trading sheep since the 12th century, still entirely about the sheep, still held on the village green, and still rather pleased with itself about both."
Findon Sheep Fair
"The narrow streets of this West Sussex market town host a makers Christmas market each late November in the shadow of Petworth House's vast estate wall, a properly artisan alternative to the big city versions with only locally produced gifts on offer."
Petworth Christmas Market
"Over 110,000 tulips in 120 varieties bloom across the 38-acre grounds of a medieval ducal castle, creating one of the largest spring bulb displays in Europe."
Arundel Castle Tulip Festival
"Three days at Ardingly covering everything from champion cattle to homemade chutneys. One of the south's great annual gatherings."
South of England Show