"A purpose-built opera house in a Cotswolds village presents Wagner, Handel, Verdi and Humperdinck across a full summer season, one of the UK's most ambitious small opera festivals in a setting of extraordinary rural beauty."

Longborough Festival Opera

"A cliff-top open-air theatre carved from Cornish granite above Porthcurno Bay, where productions from Shakespeare to musicals run each summer with the Atlantic as backdrop and Rowena Cade's extraordinary creation as the stage."

Minack Theatre Season

"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

"Over 330 artists open bars, barns, cafes, churches and hallways across Warwickshire and Coventry for two weeks, creating a self-guided trail through villages and towns where you can meet makers working in their own spaces."

Warwickshire Open Studios Summer Art Weeks

"Chester's Victorian park hosts a full summer season of theatre from late June through early September, with Shakespeare, new writing and family shows performed in an intimate outdoor setting a short walk from the city walls."

Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre

"A full village wakes week combining four dressed wells, a scarecrow trail, a carnival parade, wakes royalty crowning, and a car boot sale in one of the Hope Valley's most community-spirited annual gatherings."

Hope Wakes and Well Dressing

"This moorland village at the foot of Kinder Scout dresses its wells with intricate petal-and-clay panels each late June, turning the stone streets of this northern Peak District gateway into a week of living art."

Hayfield Well Dressing

"Three days of curated music, theatre, comedy, literature and family events in the historic grounds of Repton School and village, a South Derbyshire market town with 1,400 years of history as a quiet setting for a quietly brilliant festival."

Repton Festival

"One of Britain's oldest agricultural shows, held at the historic Salesbury Hall estate near Ribchester, packing three days with showjumping, heavyweight livestock, falconry, and the famously competitive Shetland Pony Grand National."

Royal Lancashire Agricultural Show

"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

"A two-day showground spectacular at Thornly Hall Farm featuring livestock competitions, show jumping, monster trucks, Shetland pony racing, and a fun dog show for all the family."

Durham County Show

"For nine July days, artists throw open homes, studios and workshops across Frome alongside the Frome Festival, creating a town-wide trail where you can buy directly from makers working in their own spaces."

Frome Open Art Trail

"A two-day seaside carnival lighting up the streets of Newquay each summer with floats, processions, and community fun."

Newquay Carnival

"Herefordshire's biggest country show packs steam engines, classic vehicles, country pursuits and local produce into one action-packed arena day at Burgess Farm."

Bromyard Gala

"Seven wells dressed in petals and natural materials across the Derbyshire spa town, blessed on a July Sunday, with a funfair on the market place and the Peak District as backdrop."

Buxton Well Dressing

"A week-long celebration of one of Derbyshire's oldest living traditions, culminating in Carnival Day on 11 July with a town-wide parade, crowning of the Well Dressing Queen, funfair, and live bands."

Buxton Well Dressing Festival and Carnival

"Dating back to 1855, this community-run East Yorkshire show brings together livestock, horses, crafts and countryside entertainment at the Ashes Playing Fields in Howden."

Howden Show

"The showground at Sutton on the Forest in the Vale of York hosts one of North Yorkshire's most charming traditional agricultural shows, a family day of livestock, show jumping and produce set in the flat pastoral country between the Moors and the Dales."

Huby and Sutton Show

"Rummage for vintage finds inside the historic Town Hall of one of England's smallest towns, with a veg stall tucked out front."

Bishop's Castle Antiques and Flea Market

"A small village market on the green in one of the prettiest villages in the Howardian Hills. Every first Saturday of the month."

Hovingham Farmers Market

"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

"A tiny Somerset Levels village hall market run by the parish church, serving bacon butties and toasted tea-cakes alongside organic lamb and Burrow Hill cider."

North Curry Produce Market

"Fifty-plus stalls of crafts and provisions spill across the Village Green while young local entrepreneurs hawk their wares and buskers play."

Ruddington Village Market

"A FARMA national award winner where over thirty producers fill the Georgian market square with food reared or made within fifty miles."

Stokesley Farmers' Market

"First Saturday of the month on the Memorial Gardens, with local produce, music and the steep stone streets of a former lead mining town climbing away on every side."

Wirksworth Farmers' Market

"A neighbourhood that takes its food seriously, doing what neighbourhoods should do on the first Sunday morning of every month."

Chapel Allerton Farmers Market

"A curated destination street market closing the streets of this creative Somerset town for contemporary designers, makers, vintage and street food."

The Frome Independent

"A brand-new RHS show debuts in the sweeping deer park of the Badminton Estate, with award-winning show gardens, a lakeside restaurant and talks from leading horticultural names."

RHS Badminton Flower Show

"Six opera productions, including four world premieres, fill Buxton Opera House and the Pavilion Gardens across 18 July days, making this Peak District spa town's festival one of the most ambitious programmes of rare and new opera anywhere in Britain."

Buxton International Festival

"Music, comedy, ideas and long-table dinners in the Warwickshire countryside. A festival for people who want the conversation as much as the line-up."

Also Festival

"Celebrating its 40th year, this small friendly festival pairs a top folk line-up with real ale, morris displays and ceilidhs in the shadow of Ely's cathedral."

Ely Folk Festival

"A volunteer-run festival keeping South Cumbrian folk-arts, clog dance and storytelling alive, spilling out from the Hope and Anchor pub into the streets of Ulverston."

Furness Tradition

"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

"A small, beloved folk festival on a Mendip village green a thousand feet up, old sheep fair country, with the bring your own chair intimacy the big festivals lost years ago."

Priddy Folk Festival

"A warm celebration of Northumbrian piping, fiddle and song spread across the village green, church and pubs of Rothbury, with ceilidhs and a free outdoor stage."

Rothbury Traditional Music Festival

"Cambridge Street on a Thursday morning: local producers, unhurried browsing, and an excellent reason to be somewhere beautiful."

Harrogate Farmers Market

"Local growers and producers gather in the heart of this honey-stone Cotswold wool town high on the wolds."

Stow-on-the-Wold Farmers' Market

"The East Sussex town built on the field of Hastings fills its streets and gardens with scarecrows for two weeks each July, a festival that plays with the history of battle and Norman conquest while somehow ending up being extremely cheerful."

Battle Scarecrow 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

"Brinklow's motte-and-bailey castle mound looks over a village that transforms itself every July into a scarecrow display with over eighty handmade figures spread across gardens and public spaces, combining a weekend of live music, craft stalls and a dog show into a genuinely full-village celebration."

Brinklow Village Festival and Scarecrow Trail

"A 100-year-old village tradition combining a grand horticultural marquee, a carnival parade piped in by the Phoenix Pipes, a funfair and free live bands into the evening."

Burnhams Flower Show Fete and Carnival

"A weekend food festival set in the shadow of Corfe Castle's ruined Norman keep, with local producers, street food, live music and a family atmosphere in one of Dorset's most dramatic village settings."

Corfe Castle Food and Drink Festival

"An 81-year-old village tradition where hundreds of floral, vegetable and craft exhibits fill a marquee on the common beside the church, with a fun dog show and classic cars rounding out the day."

Frenchay Flower Show

"A single great panel on Great Longstone's village green each July displays extraordinary craftsmanship from petals, seeds and bark pressed into clay, with a second children's board made entirely by young villagers."

Great Longstone Well Dressing

"The National Trust village of Lacock, where every street looks like a film set, fills its lanes and cottage gardens with handmade scarecrows based on children's book characters for two July days, a trail that turns the most perfectly preserved medieval village in England into an outdoor picture-book adventure."

Lacock Scarecrow Trail

"A monthly Sunday market in Ludlow's Castle Square blending local crafts, country produce and artisan goods in the shadow of one of the most complete medieval streetscapes in England."

Ludlow Craft & Country Market

"A milestone centenary edition of a cherished Suffolk village fete, marking 100 years of community fundraising and summer celebration in the village of Middleton."

Middleton Village Fete

"The 51st year of this Devon classic, where thousands of historic vehicles parade through the grounds of Powderham Castle on the Exe estuary, with an estuary backdrop, live music each evening and 40 car clubs already signed up for 2026."

Powderham Castle Historic Vehicle Gathering

"A traditional show running since 1948 on the village cricket ground, complete with a parade through the lanes, arena events and fiercely contested marrow and dahlia classes."

Pyrford and Wisley Flower Show

"The island's principal agricultural show brings livestock, horses, show jumping and countryside crafts to the Newport showground each July, a two-day event where the county's farming families have been competing in the same rings since the Victorian era and the judges still know everyone by name."

Royal Isle of Wight County Show

"An annual procession and community carnival held in this mid-Cornwall clay-country village each July."

St Dennis Carnival

"The handsome Cambridgeshire market town on the Great Ouse holds its carnival and music festival in Hill Rise Park each July, a free weekend of live music, community floats and street entertainment in a town whose wide quayside and medieval bridge have been drawing people to the water since the Norman Conquest."

St Ives Carnival and Music Festival

"A classic Cornish village carnival held each July in this quiet north Cornwall farming community."

St Tudy Carnival

"A summer fete set in the Water Gardens of Stanway House, with the gravity-fed fountain as backdrop to a brass band, Morris men, cream teas, pork baps, Pimms and a 1950s vintage wooden rollercoaster raising funds for five local parishes."

Stanway Fete

"Steam traction engines and vintage vehicles parade across the deer park of Parham House, with a free vintage bus service ferrying visitors on the Sunday."

The Sussex Steam Rally

"Teams race handmade rafts along the River Lea from the Town Quay to the Saracens Head and back through the centre of Ware, in a riverside community race that is the highlight of this Hertfordshire market town's summer calendar."

Ware Festival Raft Race

"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

"Witcham's village fete has crowned a world pea shooting champion since 1971, and some marksmen now fit laser sights and gyroscopes to their twelve inch tubes."

World Pea Shooting Championship

"A Midlands agricultural show with over a century of tradition, combining cattle, sheep, horse and show jumping competitions with a family entertainment programme at its rural Leicestershire ground."

Ashby Show

"Successor to one of England's oldest agricultural shows, dating to 1819, the Bakewell Country Festival blends traditional livestock classes, show jumping, and stunt riders with a lively festival atmosphere at the Bakewell Showground."

Bakewell Country Festival

"The Derbyshire village of Tansley on the edge of the Peak District invites its residents to place scarecrows in their gardens and on their lanes for a summer Sunday, turning a quiet village walk into a tour of local humour and ingenuity that draws visitors from across the county."

Tansley Village Scarecrows

"A FARMA-accredited market spilling out of the historic Market Hall in a Westmorland Dales village just minutes off the M6, with church teas and primary-school stalls."

Orton Farmers' Market

"Around forty-five stalls of farmed goods and crafts gather on Ripley's beautiful village green, all run by volunteers who plough the profits back into local charities."

Ripley Farmers' Market

"Bamford village dresses its wells each mid-July with petal-and-clay panels set against the backdrop of the Peak District reservoirs, in a community tradition that draws visitors from across the Hope Valley."

Bamford Well Dressing

"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

"A Cornish agricultural show held on a purpose-built showground between Truro and Helston, still run by volunteers, still entirely serious about its livestock, and still the kind of July afternoon that justifies the drive."

Stithians Show

"An honest market town doing what market towns do, on the second Sunday of every month. The kind of morning that stays with you."

Bedale Farmers Market

"Cheese, bread and chocolate stalls set up in Roberts Park within Titus Salt's perfectly preserved Victorian model village and World Heritage Site."

Saltaire Farmers' Market

"Five Shakespeare productions performed in the candlelit college gardens of King's, Trinity, St John's and Downing every evening from mid-July through August, the UK's best-loved open-air Shakespeare festival."

Cambridge Shakespeare Festival

"The 167th Great Yorkshire Show at Harrogate: 35,000 visitors a day, sell-out every year, and the moment when Yorkshire's farming community gathers under its biggest and most unself-conscious sky."

Great Yorkshire Show

"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

"Sixty artists scatter site-specific work themed on Ritual through three acres of semi-wild meadow, pond and woodland around a Tudor farmhouse."

Raveningham Sculpture Trail

"A country music festival set against the dramatic fells backdrop of Muncaster Castle in the Eskdale valley, featuring UK country acts across a weekend on one of Cumbria's most spectacular private estates."

Country By The Castle

"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

"A village hall beer festival on the Broads beside the Humpty Dumpty Brewery, reached if you like by the last working chain ferry on the river."

Reedham Beer Festival

"A not-for-profit greenfield arts festival founded in 1969, rooted in folk and world music under canvas in a Derbyshire hamlet, complete with a willow-circle opening ceremony."

Stainsby Festival

"For ten July days, Ventnor's clifftop streets, caves, gardens and secret spaces become venues for over 130 shows spanning circus, comedy, cabaret and family theatre in the Isle of Wight's multi-award winning arts festival."

Ventnor Fringe Festival

"A 170-acre Breckland farm hosts steam engines, chainsaw carving, model train rides and ninety trade stalls over a nostalgic three-day weekend."

Weeting Steam Engine Rally & Country Show

"East Yorkshire's premier Wolds village show since 1897, gathering thousands for livestock, crafts and the gruelling Bishop Wilton Beast run."

Bishop Wilton Show

"Now in its tenth anniversary year, this entirely volunteer-run festival brings full-scale Viking battle re-enactments, a living history encampment, and a Viking parade to the ancient coastal village of Heysham, all completely free to attend."

Heysham Viking Festival

"A proper village fayre that runs from afternoon to late evening, with a dog show, circus skills workshops and local bands playing under the Hertfordshire sky."

Little Hadham Summer Fayre

"A monthly antiques and collectables market on Castle Square in Ludlow, drawing dealers and browsers from across the Marches to one of the best-preserved Tudor market towns in England."

Ludlow Antiques Market

"Hundreds of working engines and elaborately restored fair organs gather at Marfield, with every penny of profit going to keep Masham Town Hall alive."

Masham Steam Engine & Fair Organ Rally

"The 40th year of this Herefordshire countryside rally, where steam ploughing and threshing demonstrations, fairground organs and a Saturday auction bring thousands to a cider orchard village between the Malverns and the Wye."

Much Marcle Steam Rally

"A proper Cumbrian one-day show since 1834 at Brougham Hall Farm with sheepdog trials, fell ponies, ferret and birds of prey displays set against the backdrop of the Lake District fells."

Penrith Agricultural Show

"A popular street carnival parade through the centre of this north Cornwall market town each summer."

Wadebridge Carnival

"Two dressed wells on Whitwell's village green are blessed in a procession from Jubilee Road, with the making open to visitors each evening the preceding week at the Scout and Guide HQ."

Whitwell Well Dressing

"Around two hundred garden snails race outward from a central circle on a damp Norfolk cloth, bred in a county that suits them, to the starter's cry of ready, steady, slow."

World Snail Racing Championships

"In its 52nd year, the world's only toe wrestling championship returns to Ashbourne Market Place where barefoot competitors lock toes and try to pin each other's foot to the ground in a sport invented in 1974 and officially rejected by the International Olympic Committee."

World Toe Wrestling Championship

"A marquee on the playing field brims with flowers, fruit, vegetables, floral art, cooking and children's competitions, with a special prize for the household scoring the most points."

Wellow Village Show

"The 64th Cattistock Show in Dorset's rolling hills hosts horses, ponies, dogs and the home of the Dorset Knob Throwing Championship, a contest involving hard biscuits, distance and great dignity that defies easy explanation."

Cattistock Countryside Show

"Folk and roots music in the grounds of a Jacobean country house. The setting does most of the work; the line-up does the rest."

Folk by the Oak

"The village of Weeton near Harrogate holds its annual show on a Sunday in July when the hedged fields of the Leeds-Harrogate corridor are at their greenest, a genuine local show run by and for the community of the surrounding parishes."

Weeton Show

"A friendly community market held every third Saturday in the ancient village of Clun, running from 10am to noon and now established at Clun Memorial Hall, offering locally produced goods in the heart of one of South Shropshire's most picturesque villages."

Clun Village Market

"Broad Street in a cress-farm town, third Sunday of the month. Everything local. Nothing superfluous. The right kind of Sunday."

Alresford Farmers Market

"Dales farmers and makers fill the cobbled Market Square of this Wharfedale village with artisan bread, preserves and locally reared meat."

Grassington 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

"The 150th Driffield Show in 2026 brings livestock, horses, trade stands and countryside crafts to the East Riding's principal agricultural showground, the only major one-day show in the Wolds country and a gathering that the farming families of the East Riding have been attending since the same year as the Education Act."

Driffield Show

"A spectacular new RHS show opens at the private royal estate in Norfolk, with show gardens personally chosen by King Charles III and a full programme of horticultural talks."

RHS Sandringham Flower Show

"A boutique music and food festival on the Camel Estuary in North Cornwall, where Michelin-starred chefs cook alongside headlining musicians on the banks of the estuary, with kayaking, wild swimming and oysters at the heart of the programme."

Rock Oyster Festival

"The world's largest crime writing festival packs four July days with over 140 authors for its biggest year in 23 editions, with Ann Cleeves, Anthony Horowitz and David Baldacci among the names filling Harrogate's Old Swan Hotel."

Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival

"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

"Traditional and contemporary folk fills the green fields around Warwick Castle, with morris sides, a festival choir and a fringe winding through the historic market town."

Warwick Folk Festival

"A three-day seaside carnival on the Suffolk coast with a Battle of the Bands theme for 2026, featuring a decorated shields procession, fairground, fireworks finale, and live music across the weekend on the esplanade."

Felixstowe Carnival

"England's grandest countryside sports gathering at Ragley Hall, where tens of thousands of people come for clay shooting, falconry, working dogs, fly fishing and the unexpected pleasure of bumping into someone carrying a hawk."

Game Fair at Ragley Hall

"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

"Traction engines steam away in the shadow of the Malvern Hills while a Victorian fairground lights up the night camp."

Welland Steam & Country Rally

"A regular monthly market on Ludlow's historic Castle Square showcasing local growers, bakers, cheesemakers and food producers from across South Shropshire and the Marches."

Ludlow Local Producers' Market

"The Nidderdale village of Birstwith hosts a show that is celebrating over 130 years in 2026, an intimate gathering of livestock, produce and family sports that has never grown beyond the size of the village green and never needed to."

Birstwith Show

"A heritage steam and vintage rally held across a beautiful private country estate near Liskeard, celebrating working engines and rural craft."

Boconnoc Steam Fair

"The small village of Borrowby in the Hambleton Hills hosts its agricultural show at Knayton in the heart of the North Yorkshire plain, a show where every competitor has usually driven less than twenty minutes from home and the results are discussed in the local pub for weeks afterwards."

Borrowby Show

"The Lake District's premier steam event on Cark Airfield beside Morecambe Bay, where traction engines, vintage vehicles and an autojumble spread across the old runway with Lakeland fells visible on clear days."

Cumbria Steam Gathering

"Self-described as the largest village show in England, held over a Saturday and Sunday in a Lincolnshire fenland village with a working windmill. The firework concert after dark is its own tradition."

Heckington Show

"Traction engines, vintage vehicles and stationary engines gather in the shadow of the Humber Bridge for a family rally that brings working steam back to the East Riding each summer, with the world's fourth-longest single-span bridge making an unusual and spectacular backdrop."

Humber Bridge Garden Centre Steam and Vintage Rally

"The 1st Kirkbymoorside Scouts organise this annual trail through the North York Moors market town, where scarecrows in gardens and on doorsteps can only be found by buying a trail map from local shops, turning the search itself into a reason to walk every lane of a town most visitors drive straight through."

Kirkbymoorside Scarecrow Trail

"Fairies, alchemists, water nymphs and wizards take over a moated Tudor manor's gardens for a weekend of enchanted imagination where dressing up is warmly expected."

Magic Weekend at Kentwell Hall

"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

"Running since 1863, still held on the same show field by the sea in North Somerset. A produce show, country fair and community reunion that operates purely on tradition, and is better for it."

Portishead Summer Show

"The Isle of Wight's carnival season opens at Sandown with a children's carnival and evening procession, the start of a summer-long circuit of illuminated parades around the Island run entirely by volunteers."

Sandown Carnival

"Three wells dressed with intricate flower-and-clay panels anchor a full week of events in this limestone gorge village each late July, including a fell race, model boat race, treasure hunt and brass band on the village green."

Stoney Middleton Well Dressing

"Over 100 events in 8 days on the Jurassic Coast, with a Wild West theme for 2026, a carnival procession, air display, fireworks finale, Titan the Robot, Granny Turismo shopping trolley dancers and open water swimming, all free and raising £40k for local charities."

Swanage Carnival Week

"Sixty years of Norfolk's biggest village shindig, where Lego fans and chefs share a field, the church fills with flowers, and everyone dances to live bands until Sunday evening."

Worstead Festival

"Set within the award-winning grounds of Newby Hall near Ripon, this well-established show is known as a small show with a big personality, with traditional country classes and one of North Yorkshire's finest showground settings."

Aldborough and Boroughbridge 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

"On the last Saturday of the month the Agricultural Business Centre fills with Peak District producers, in the town that gave its name to the pudding."

Bakewell Farmers' Market

"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

"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 week-long seaside carnival in the fishing town of Looe, with a traditional Furry Dance, live music, and the Polperro Fisherman's Choir."

Looe Carnival Week

"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 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

"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

"One of the largest one-day agricultural shows in the North of England, set in the magnificent parkland of Duncombe Park with over 250 trade stands, sheepdog trials, a brass band and a showcase of local livestock and crafts."

Ryedale Show

"Singers and players gather from across the world to perform opera and a new chamber version of Britten's War Requiem inside a tiny medieval collegiate church a mile from the wild North Cornwall coast."

St Endellion Summer Festival

"West Somerset's biggest country fair, held on the lawns below a National Trust castle for its 45th year. Livestock, falconry, crafts, food and a strong argument for leaving the city behind."

Dunster Country Fair

"The world's largest independent cheese competition, judging entries from over 50 countries, sits at the centre of the Nantwich Show's full day of livestock, rural crafts, food and family entertainment at Reaseheath College."

Nantwich Show and International Cheese Awards

"A traditional one-day agricultural show held at Kitley Lawns each summer, a much-loved fixture on the South Devon rural calendar."

Yealmpton Show

"The original. Outdoor stages, Cherry Hinton Hall, world-class folk since 1965. The standard everything else is quietly measured against."

Cambridge Folk Festival

"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

"Named for the spectral black dog that terrorised St Mary's Church in 1577, this brilliant folklore festival fills the town with art, parade, storytelling and a ritual burning of demons."

Black Shuck Festival

"Three days at South Cerney Airfield bring together one of the largest gatherings of vintage vehicles, steam engines, working horses, buses and stationary engines in the South West, a complete world of working mechanical heritage set out across a former wartime airfield with the Cotswold Water Park shimmering beyond."

Gloucestershire Vintage and Country Extravaganza

"A solar-powered green gathering in the woodlands of a West Norfolk estate, small enough that you know your campsite neighbours by Saturday night."

Harlequin Fayre

"A week of folk music, dance and song fills this Regency seaside town and its clifftop arena."

Sidmouth Folk Festival

"Over a century old and still packing the quayside with parade floats, a town crier contest, gillying competitions and the most celebrated sandcastle battle in North Norfolk."

Wells Carnival

"A century-old North Norfolk coastal carnival week packed with a raft race, sandcastle competitions, fancy dress, a fete, and a grand procession through town on Carnival Day."

Wells-next-the-Sea Carnival Week

"Traction engines, showman's engines and road rollers gather above Whitby for a summer rally that ends each Saturday with fireworks over the abbey ruins, in one of the most dramatic settings for any steam event in England."

Whitby Traction Engine Rally

"At the Barley Mow pub in Bonsall village, hens race over a thirty-foot course in heats building to a grand final, watched by enthusiastic crowds who take this Derbyshire Peak District tradition with exactly the gravity it deserves."

Bonsall World Championship Hen Racing

"A well-loved Peak District village custom in the heart of the Hope Valley, where Bradwell's community gathers each August to display and bless its hand-crafted petal mosaics."

Bradwell Well Dressing

"The Island's largest horticultural show at Chale Recreation Ground draws over 1,500 entries and thousands of visitors to a village on the wild south coast of the Isle of Wight, with OG Performance Horses in the main arena."

Chale Show

"Derbyshire's premier steam and heritage show on a hillside farm in the Peak District fringes, with a working plant area, military living history groups, a wall of death and over 300 years of machinery on display in a single field."

Cromford Steam Rally

"A classic moorland village show under the famous Emley Moor mast, packed with prize sheep, vintage machinery and the local brass band."

Emley Show

"A weekend of street food, chef demos and artisan stalls in the parkland of a Palladian house on the edge of Swindon, part of the series Villagly already lists at Compton Verney."

Great British Food Festival, Lydiard Park

"Children carry rush bearings woven into crosses and harps through Wordsworth's village to St Oswald's church, handed gingerbread at the end by the same shop that has made it for generations."

Grasmere Rushbearing

"A classic Cornish market-town carnival parade held each summer in the medieval stannary capital of Lostwithiel."

Lostwithiel Carnival

"A free and friendly folkie takeover of 13 atmospheric venues with Morris dancing, sing-arounds and an outdoor market stage across the old market town."

Melton Folk Festival

"A beloved carnival night in one of Cornwall's most picturesque fishing villages, with a harbour-lit procession drawing crowds from across the peninsula."

Mousehole Carnival

"A fortnight of concerts, masterclasses and ensemble music-making at Gresham's School in the Georgian market town of Holt, continuing the tradition of the renowned Dartington International Summer School in a Norfolk setting."

Music Summer School and Festival

"The Isle of Wight's capital transforms for its annual summer carnival, with the illuminated procession on 20 August filling the town centre with floats, music and light."

Newport Carnival

"The beautiful village of Osmotherley above the Vale of Mowbray holds its annual show at Thimbleby each August, a hill-country gathering where the Cleveland Hills form an unbroken skyline above the ring and the sheep and cattle classes are judged with an intimacy impossible in any larger show."

Osmotherley Show

"The 40th anniversary edition fills Sherwood Forest with jousting tournaments, medieval encampments, archery demonstrations and arena performances across three weekends in August, drawing tens of thousands into the ancient Nottinghamshire woodland."

Robin Hood Festival

"A coastal food celebration on the Durham seafront featuring street food, cookery classes, live music, TV chefs, and locally sourced produce from across the North East."

Seaham Food Festival

"A vibrant coastal carnival parade led by the legendary Giant Bolster through the streets of St Agnes, combining floats, dance routines, and local pride."

St Agnes Carnival

"Ripon celebrates the return of St Wilfrid from Rome in 672 AD with a costumed procession through the city each August Bank Holiday Saturday, a piece of living medieval pageantry that has run continuously for well over a thousand years and remains entirely in the hands of the city's own community."

St Wilfrid Procession

"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

"A combined food and craft market held monthly on Ludlow's Castle Square, uniting independent food traders with local craft makers in one of England's finest market town settings."

Ludlow Food & Craft Market

"From Crowning Day to the main parade, Sheringham gives itself over for a week to duck racing, sandcastle contests and floats that bring out every family on the North Norfolk coast."

Sheringham Carnival

"Hosted by actor Martin Clunes on his West Dorset farm near Beaminster, Buckham Fair is a classic countryside show fundraiser featuring heavy horses, dog shows, main ring displays and a funfair."

Buckham Fair

"For one Sunday the whole village of Leadenham fills with unpaid musicians, dancers and storytellers performing across indoor and outdoor stages purely as a labour of love."

Day of Lincolnshire Folk

"Over 1,200 vehicles from 1928 to now sweep the driveway of a Grade I listed moated hall, with birds of prey, swing dancing and Grade I garden entry included in one day."

Festival of Classic and Sports Cars at Helmingham Hall

"Pete Tye Farm at Abberton on the Essex coast has hosted this community show for over ninety years, combining the five parishes of Abberton, Langenhoe, Peldon and the Wigboroughs in a day of livestock, produce, stalls and main ring entertainment that remains entirely and proudly local."

Five Parishes Show

"The village of Heather, Kings Award winner, goes cheerfully insane each August as gardens fill with hundreds of scarecrows depicting celebrities and topical characters, all competing for votes from the crowds who walk the trail with a guide booklet."

Heather Scarecrow Festival

"A proper Exmoor community fair on the recreation ground, with craft displays, a hog roast, beer tent and stalls arranged against the backdrop of some of the most dramatic coastal scenery in England."

Porlock Country Fair

"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

"One of the Vale of York's biggest village shows, handing out more than 120 trophies across livestock, horticulture and a different farm-animal theme each year."

Tockwith Show

"An open-air Shakespeare company performing since 1964, now staged in the purpose-built amphitheatre at Canford School near Wimborne, with The Tempest on the programme and a picnic lawn under Dorset skies."

Brownsea Open Air Theatre

"The 225th running: the Egton Bridge Old Gooseberry Society meets in a North York Moors village to weigh berries that have been grown in secret since March, and the champion is measured in drams, not centimetres."

Egton Bridge Old Gooseberry Show

"A popular Lincolnshire estate fair offering equine events, dog competitions, country pursuits and the finest local food and drink producers against the backdrop of the historic Revesby Estate."

Revesby Country Fair

"A traditional one-day agricultural show set in the heart of South Lakeland near the famous Cartmel Priory, drawing livestock breeders and farming families from across Cumbria and beyond each summer."

Cartmel Agricultural Show

"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

"In its 105th year, this show in one of the prettiest villages on the edge of the North York Moors is considered the best and friendliest traditional rural show in the locality, with livestock, crafts, produce and local food."

Thornton-le-Dale Show

"One of the oldest one-day country shows in the Welsh Marches, held annually on the Boyne estate beneath the Clee Hills and featuring livestock classes, equestrian events, local trade stands and traditional countryside pursuits."

Burwarton Show and Country Fair

"The pinnacle of English sheepdog competition, run across four days on a Cheshire hillside where the country's finest handlers and their Border Collies compete for a place at the International."

English National Sheepdog Trials

"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

"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 sailing regatta with roots going back to 1837, combining competitive racing on the water with a Marching Carnival, live music, and a Pink Wig Parade ashore."

Falmouth Week

"Now in its 155th year, this Cleveland coast show near Saltburn-by-the-Sea is said to have originated from an argument over who owned the finest Cleveland Bay foal, and retains deep roots in equine and agricultural tradition."

Hinderwell Horse and Agricultural Show

"A volunteer-run, not-for-profit gathering that scatters concerts, ceilidhs, puppetry and street performance through a historic Victorian seaside town on the cliffs."

Saltburn Folk Festival

"A free three-day community celebration that grew from a grassroots music idea into Suffolk's friendliest festival, with tribute acts, children's workshops, street food and a stage for all."

Saxmundham Community Fest

"One of Cheshire's biggest steam gatherings fills Astle Park with showman's engines and fairground organs, capped by a Saturday-night firework display."

Astle Park Traction Engine Rally

"The 6th year of this East Yorkshire showground fair, where hundreds of vintage and classic vehicles gleam across the weekend alongside steam engines, an indoor craft hall and a fairground in the heart of the Wolds."

Driffield Steam Fair

"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

"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

"For nine days every August this Wharfedale village fills its gardens, walls and doorways with handmade scarecrows, and half the fun is the treasure hunt of finding them all."

Kettlewell Scarecrow Festival

"This North Yorkshire village between Bedale and Northallerton holds its annual feast on a summer Saturday in a tradition that predates the railway and the motor car, an intensely local occasion where the village green is the venue and the whole community is both performer and audience."

Kirkby Fleetham Feast

"Founded in 1980 to unite parishes bordering the River Manifold, this strictly local-entry show is beloved for its Slow Tractor Race and genuine community spirit set against the spectacular scenery of the Staffordshire moorland valley."

Manifold Valley Show

"The Northumberland Vintage Tractor Club's rally draws vintage machinery and working steam to the castle town of Alnwick each August, a show that fits naturally in a county where working farms still outnumber tourist coaches and the pace of harvest has not changed as much as people think."

NVTC Vintage Rally

"Three stages in a Norfolk market-town meadow, run entirely by volunteers since 2008, with every surplus penny donated to local good causes."

Reepham Festival

"A traditional one-day village agricultural show held at Townhead Farm in the Northumberland countryside, drawing local livestock, vintage vehicles, and classic car displays."

Slaley Show

"A traditional Cornish market-town carnival in St Columb Major, home also to the ancient Cornish hurling custom, with a decorated float procession each August."

St Columb Major Carnival

"West Cumbria's biggest food weekend takes over Maryport's waterfront with a producers' market, fresh seafood stalls, chef demos with nationally known names, sea shanties and free live music across two harbourside stages."

Taste Cumbria Maryport

"An annual summer carnival parade through the legendary Arthurian clifftop village of Tintagel on the north Cornwall coast."

Tintagel Carnival

"Two August days at Bowood House bring clay shooting, falconry, lurcher racing, gun dog scurries, chainsaw speed carving and a craft village together in the grounds of a Wiltshire stately home."

Wiltshire Game and Country Fair

"The model village of Ripley, built in the 1820s in a French Alsatian style by Sir William Amcotts Ingilby to house his estate workers, hosts its agricultural show in the castle grounds each August, a day of livestock and country sports in one of Yorkshire's most unusual and picturesque villages."

Ripley Agricultural Show

"A beloved traditional show held near Harrogate celebrating the best of rural Yorkshire with show jumping, livestock, light and heavy horses, and a parade of Hurworth Hunt Hounds."

Ripley Show

"A one-day country show in the Peak District foothills where horticulture classes sit beside heavy horses, sheep, vintage machinery and a 1:30pm dog show on Rectory Fields."

Ashover Agricultural and Horticultural Show

"A traditional village agricultural show set in the charming limestone village of Ashover in the Amber Valley, featuring livestock, craft, and horticultural competitions in a quintessentially Derbyshire setting."

Ashover Show

"One of the last Derbyshire wells dressed entirely in the old way with no nails or glue, just clay boards pressed petal by petal, blessed with a service and kept up for five days."

Barlow Well Dressing

"The 164th Danby Show brings horses, horticulture, ferrets, sheepdog trials, Whitby Falconers and Bilsdale Silver Band to a North York Moors village tucked in the Esk Valley."

Danby Agricultural Show

"A traditional North York Moors show featuring ferrets, horses, horticulture, vintage machinery, sheepdog trials and the Bilsdale Silver Band in a dramatic moorland setting."

Danby Show

"Fairport Convention host a vast folk-rock reunion in a field beside this Oxfordshire canal village each August."

Fairport's Cropredy Convention

"The 122nd year of this gorgeous one-day show in Rydal Park, with sheepdog trials, foxhound and terrier classes, hound trails, a shepherd's crook show and a fell race packed into a single Lakeland afternoon."

Vale of Rydal Sheepdog Trials and Hound Show

"Run by a Yorkshire transatlantic folk band, this family-friendly weekend sets transatlantic roots music among the parkland and gardens of a stately home."

The Magpies Festival

"The biggest steam engine rally in Cornwall brings around 70 full-size engines to Stithians Showground for three August days of steam trailer rides, threshing, wood sawing, stone crushing and a Saturday evening sheaf-pitching competition."

West of England Steam Engine Society Rally

"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

"Suffolk's award-winning seaside carnival fills the shingle beach town of Aldeburgh across a summer Bank Holiday weekend, with a procession, 10K Mini Marathon, community events and the particular magic of carnival lights on the North Sea."

Aldeburgh Carnival

"A classic upland agricultural show on the Allendale showfield celebrating the livestock, horticultural, and rural craft traditions of the North Pennine Dales."

Allendale Show

"An annual one-day agricultural show in the southern Peak District gateway town of Ashbourne, celebrating local livestock, rural skills and Derbyshire farming heritage."

Ashbourne Show

"A full week of Derbyshire village carnival life with well dressings, a flower festival, a scarecrow competition and then the spectacular Saturday parade of floats, fancy dress and Carnival Royalty through the village, followed by classic cars, alpacas and children's entertainment on the recreation ground."

Barlow Carnival

"402 years old and still going: the parade winds through the market town to the riverside quay for a weekend of live music, a fun dog show and genuine community spirit."

Beccles Carnival

"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

"One of Cornwall's largest inland town carnivals, with an illuminated evening procession through the historic streets of Bodmin each August."

Bodmin Carnival

"A colourful summer carnival parade through the surf town of Bude, one of the highlights of the north Cornwall seaside summer calendar."

Bude Carnival

"A charming village carnival in the wooded Helford valley community of Constantine, keeping alive a cherished local summer tradition."

Constantine Carnival

"A full week of North Norfolk seaside pageantry crowned by the Red Arrows over the pier, a revived town-centre parade and a sandcastle competition that the whole family takes very seriously."

Cromer Carnival

"A packed week of boat racing, carnival processions, a Giant Pasty Ceremony, fireworks, and live music on the quayside of this beloved south Cornwall estuary town."

Fowey Royal Regatta and Carnival

"Food stalls and live music in the grounds of the longest country house facade in Europe, in the estate village of Wentworth."

Great British Food Festival, Wentworth Woodhouse

"Since 1983 the Island's biggest summer show at Fighting Cocks Crossroads near Newchurch has celebrated garlic grown on the Isle of Wight, with star chefs, live music and a Garlic Queen."

Isle of Wight Garlic Festival

"Founded in 1871 and held in the Milburn Arms Field in the tranquil valley village of Rosedale Abbey, this long-running show features foxhound and terrier shows, gundog displays, terrier races, hound trails, and a gymkhana."

Rosedale and District Show

"Founded in 1871, this intimate show at Milburn Arms Field in the heart of Rosedale Abbey showcases heavy horses, cattle, goats, vintage tractors and local produce against the backdrop of a former ironstone mining valley."

Rosedale Show

"West Mersea Island has held its town regatta since 1838 and the August event on the Blackwater estuary combines sailing races with watersports and a fireworks finale, an evening on an island famous for its oysters where the Essex marshes glow gold in the late summer light."

West Mersea Town Regatta

"A full week of summer fun in the tiniest town on the Isle of Wight: river sports, boat racing, sandcastle competitions, treasure hunts, a dog show and a grand procession through Yarmouth's medieval streets."

Yarmouth Carnival Week

"Over 160 years old and still the only one-day agricultural show in the South West with free pedestrian entry, bringing livestock, cheese tasting, craft stalls, Somerset cider and horticultural classes to one showground."

Mid-Somerset Show

"Father Time crowns the elected Queen of the Revel in this North Cornwall village on the Monday after August 12th, after which she leads a mounted procession to the Revel Ground for Cornish wrestling, fancy dress, dancing and feasting in a celebration that has marked the founding of the village since the medieval period."

Marhamchurch Revel

"A three-day seaside spectacle in the tiny village of Seaview complete with a greasy pole over the sea, tug of war, swimming races, diving and a fireworks display over the Solent."

Seaview Village Regatta

"A two-day Dorset show on the August hillsides above Blackmore Vale, where the landscape itself is the argument for attending: old breeds in the ring, and Thomas Hardy countryside rolling away on every side."

Gillingham and Shaftesbury Show

"The combined agricultural show for the Brough and Kirkby Stephen area showcases the sheep farming traditions of the Cumbrian Dales, with horticulture, vintage machinery, and livestock classes in the dramatic Upper Eden valley."

Brough and Kirkby Stephen Agricultural Show

"A traditional one-day show on the edge of Dartmoor with livestock, horticulture and terrier racing."

Chagford Show

"A working farm field below the silhouette of Corfe Castle. Five stages, four days, and the particular quiet of the Dorset hills when the music stops between sets."

Purbeck Valley Folk Festival

"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

"Pun-loving villagers craft dozens of scarecrows like Builder's Bum and The Crow Bar along a trail that funds the future-proofing of St Leonard's church."

Flamstead Scarecrow Festival

"Three days of music, ale, art and family on a Suffolk estate, famed for its premieres and firsts and a reputation as one of the best-loved folk weekends in the country."

FolkEast

"A screen-free family festival of wild freedom and glittering wonder where woodland glades, campfires and circus turn a Cheshire estate into a storybook."

Just So Festival

"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

"One of England's most singular calendar customs, this centuries-old West Witton rite sees a chanting crowd carry a glowing-eyed effigy of 'Bartle' through the village at nightfall before stabbing and burning him on the hillside above Wensleydale."

Burning Bartle

"The plague village dresses its wells in late August, the same clay and petal craft as its neighbours, in a place that carries more history per cottage than almost anywhere in England."

Eyam Well Dressing

"Two days of Suffolk country life on the grounds of Framlingham College, with a dedicated dog show, local produce, rural crafts and live music in a properly family-friendly setting."

Framlingham Country Show

"Held in the grounds of Eshton Hall near Skipton, this traditional Dales show blends livestock and horticulture classes with show jumping, sheepdog trials and fell running."

Gargrave Agricultural and Horticultural Show

"Held in the grounds of Eshton Hall in a Dales village near Skipton, the Gargrave Show has cattle, sheep, showjumping and a fell race, a cornerstone of local tradition since the Victorian era."

Gargrave Show

"A tower of rushes twelve feet high is pulled through the Pennine villages of Saddleworth by a hundred Morris dancers from across the country, a weekend of dancing, singing, gurning and walking on the edge of the moors."

Saddleworth Rushcart Festival

"One of the highest-altitude well dressings in Derbyshire, Taddington's boards are dressed and displayed in a windswept limestone plateau village above the Wye Valley."

Taddington Well Dressing

"An effigy is carried through the Wensleydale village to a rhyme before being burned, origins long lost."

Burning of Old Bartle

"Over a hundred concerts plus rapper, clog and Morris teams spill through a clifftop fishing town for a full week of song, dance, shanties and storytelling."

Whitby Folk Week

"A full Wharfedale country show with livestock, horticultural classes, showjumping and local food, run by the Arthington, Bramhope, Pool and District Society since 1906 at the gateway to the Dales."

Arthington Show

"Seventy stalls of crafts and local produce take over the scenic centre of this canal-and-cross Cheshire village beside Lymm Cross."

Lymm Makers Market

"The Calder Valley town of Mirfield holds its annual show at the Huddersfield Road showground each late August, a West Yorkshire agricultural and horticultural show that has been running continuously for well over a century in a part of the county where the textile mill towns and the farming country meet."

Mirfield Show

"One of Derbyshire's most tranquil well dressings appears in this small hamlet near Miller's Dale each August, where the petal-and-clay panel stands in one of the quietest and most beautiful corners of the White Peak."

Wormhill Well Dressing

"The Yorkshire Dales' premier agricultural show since 1897, set in the shadow of Kilnsey Crag and famous for its fell race up the Crag itself, combining keenly contested livestock and sheepdog trials with baking, handicrafts, and traditional Dales sports."

Kilnsey Show and Sports

"A Wednesday show in late August in a North York Moors village that still takes its horses seriously, hunters, heavy breeds, and a showground in a dale that feels entirely self-sufficient."

Egton Horse and Agricultural Show

"More than 70 scarecrows on a single themed trail wind through a Pendle Hill village each August Bank Holiday, with hot food, children's quizzes and a raffle raising funds for the local hall and church."

Higham Scarecrow Festival

"Now in its 157th year, this one-day Buckinghamshire agricultural show at Weedon packs livestock judging, equestrian displays, stunt shows and rural craft competitions into a classic late-summer county show."

Bucks County Show

"A Bank Holiday town takeover with an open-air FAR Stage, Betjeman Sessions, pub music and street entertainment all within walking distance in Wadebridge."

Cornwall Folk Festival

"A historic East Yorkshire village spreads concerts across its Civic Hall, parish church and local pubs over the Bank Holiday weekend."

Cottingham Folk Festival

"Where exceptional arts, courageous activism and open-hearted belief meet in a stately home's parkland, holding its final festival at Boughton before moving home."

Greenbelt

"Five thousand people explore old cabins, dilapidated buildings and woodland in a forgotten Lincolnshire village over August Bank Holiday, soundtracked by international house, techno and electronica with fire-cooked banquets in the forest."

Lost Village Festival

"One of the South West's premier agricultural exhibitions, held at the West Bay showground near Bridport with livestock, horses, homecrafts, horticulture and over 400 trade stands."

Melplash Agricultural Show

"A long-running west Dorset agricultural show on the coast near Bridport with livestock and food halls."

Melplash Show

"The UK's first employee-owned festival is a seriously silly, radically sustainable, meat-free adventure in utopia set in the grounds of a Northamptonshire hall."

Shambala Festival

"The folk family behind sixty years of Towersey start again on the Claydon Estate, the same dances and singarounds in a new Buckinghamshire field."

Found Festival

"Free live folk, shanty singing and ceilidh dancing tumble along the seafront of a Jurassic Coast town, anchored by headline concerts at the Marine Theatre."

Lyme Folk Weekend

"Every other August Bank Holiday since 2000, this compact Bedfordshire market town throws a four-night community extravaganza of music, food and outdoor entertainment that the whole village runs."

Party on Potton Big Weekend

"Four stages of folk, world music and Americana plus a dance tent, craft fair and children's festival fill the showground of a medieval Shropshire market town."

Shrewsbury Folk Festival

"The final ever edition of a 40-year tradition brings Renaissance and Baroque voices to the ancient wool-trade churches of Lavenham, Kersey and Clare for one last magnificent farewell."

Suffolk Villages 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

"A beloved North Tynedale agricultural show at the heart of Northumberland's most remote market town, celebrating 100 years of Kielder Forest in 2026 with inter-farm challenges, vintage vehicles, and livestock classes."

Bellingham Show

"Deep in the Northumberland countryside, a riotous one-day festival with terrier racing, live bands, Northumbrian piping, traditional wrestling, a dog show and fell racing, with the 2026 theme celebrating 100 years of Kielder Forest."

Bellingham Show and Country Festival

"The 114th Bilsdale Show at Thornhill Farm in Chop Gate, a beautiful remote Moors valley show with Swaledale sheep, horses, ferrets, a fell race and Bilsdale Silver Band, raising funds for local charities."

Bilsdale Agricultural Show

"Thornhill Farm in the hidden valley of Bilsdale, running south from the Cleveland Hills between Stokesley and Helmsley, hosts this remote moorland show each late August where the audience is almost entirely made up of people who farm the surrounding hills and have done so for generations."

Bilsdale Show

"A Cotswold-edge fete with a home produce competition, welly wanging and a prize-winning cider bar runs alongside three days of fabulous flower displays adorning the village church."

Childswickham Village Fete and Flower Festival

"Each August Bank Holiday, the medieval church of St Peter ad Vincula in this Essex wool town is transformed into a themed spectacle of flowers that has dazzled visitors for over three decades."

Coggeshall Flower Festival

"A not-for-profit charity fundraiser held over the August Bank Holiday at Dauntsey, combining classic vehicles, country crafts, animals, live music and food in a genuine village showground setting."

Dauntsey Festival of Transport and Country Show

"A Leicestershire village fills its gardens, drives and lamp posts with over a hundred themed scarecrows each August Bank Holiday, inviting visitors to walk the trail and vote for their favourite over three days."

Desford Scarecrow Festival

"The Fellside Royal since 1864, a pure Eden Valley agricultural show in a remote Cumbrian village with sheepdog trials, fell races, quoits, children's fancy dress and the quiet pride of hill farming families on show."

Dufton Agricultural Show

"Built around a duck pond, a medieval cross and a bull ring, Foolow is the quintessential Peak District village and its well dressings in late August draw visitors who discover what the White Peak looks like when nobody planned a car park for it."

Foolow Well Dressing

"A border shepherd's show in the shadow of the Cheviots, one of Northumberland's most traditional agricultural gatherings, with Cheviot sheep, cattle, horses and the Border hills right there on the horizon."

Glendale Show

"A small and cherished late-August fete in one of Dorset's quietest hill villages, combining the Gardening Club's annual show with stalls, homemade teas and the particular peace of a village afternoon that has barely changed in decades."

Halstock Fete

"The town famous for its sea salt fills the quayside with street food from around the world, craft beer, artisan cheese, cider and gin bars over August Bank Holiday weekend."

Maldon Food and Drink Festival

"Bank Holiday Saturday in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales: limestone pavements above, Swaledale sheep in the ring below, a show that has run for over a hundred years without ever trying to be anything it is not."

Malham Show

"The 120th year of this tiny, utterly traditional Lakeland show at the foot of Helvellyn, with open sheepdog trials, foxhound and terrier judging and a fell race while the ancient sound of Cumbrian dialect fills the valley."

Patterdale Dog Day

"A tiny Northumberland hamlet between Alnwick and Craster springs to life each August Bank Holiday with a scarecrow trail quiz, tombola, sausage sizzle and refreshments raising funds for the village hall and church."

Rennington Scarecrow Festival

"Bank Holiday Saturday in the limestone heart of the Yorkshire Dales: Wensleydale sheep in the ring, fell races up the hillsides, cheese in the tent, and the dale doing exactly what it does best."

Wensleydale Agricultural Show

"The medieval market town of Bury St Edmunds fills its Abbey Gardens and town centre with artisan food and drink producers each August Bank Holiday, a free festival that celebrates Suffolk's extraordinary larder of provender from the Breckland and the farmland of west Suffolk."

Bury St Edmunds Food and Drink Festival

"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

"Since 1852 the Showfield at Grasmere has hosted Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling, fell guides racing, hound trailing and tug-of-war on the August Bank Holiday Sunday, and in 2026 entry is completely free."

Grasmere Sports

"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

"Forty local makers and artisan producers fill the medieval village hall and its glebe field in one of Suffolk's most photographed timber-framed villages, with street food trucks and barista coffee outside."

Lavenham Summer Craft and Foodie Festival

"Shropshire's largest steam event, with over 1200 exhibits at Onslow Park including shire horses ploughing the working field, steam-powered cultivating, vintage tractor pulling and the famous Grand Parade set to nostalgia poetry."

Shrewsbury Steam Rally

"For its 44th year around forty gardens open across the village with brass bands, Morris dancing and a free vintage bus to ferry weary visitors between cream teas."

Walsham le Willows Open Gardens

"An international event (which means people from Sheringham and further afield take part) on Cromer Pier, where crabbers compete to catch the greatest number and the largest specimen in two hours, with all crabs returned to the sea to wait for next year."

World Pier Crabbing Championships

"A one-day Norfolk agricultural show at the end of August on the market town's own showground, quiet, well-organised and deeply Norfolk, in a county that does agricultural shows as well as anywhere."

Aylsham Show

"The 117th Farndale Show at Low Mill fills a daffodil valley in the North York Moors with cattle, Swaledale sheep, a hound show, terrier racing, sheepdog trials and Jelly Roll Jazz Band on August bank holiday Monday."

Farndale Agricultural Show

"The Farndale valley on the North York Moors is famous for its wild daffodils in spring and for this bank holiday show in late August, a gathering of moorland farming families in one of the most unspoiled and least-visited dales in all of Yorkshire."

Farndale Show

"A week of music, dance and song for adults of all abilities at England's national centre for folk arts, tucked into a manor in the Quantock Hills."

Halsway Folk Summer School

"One of the Peak District's biggest Bank Holiday events with sheepdog trials running through to Tuesday, show jumping, heavy horses, gundogs and a food village drawing thousands to the Hope Valley in the hills."

Hope Show and Sheepdog Trials

"A much-loved annual show held on August Bank Holiday Monday in the heart of the Peak District's Hope Valley, bringing together livestock, terrier racing, fell running and rural crafts beneath the Dark Peak moorland."

Hope Valley Show

"Bank Holiday Monday in Swaledale: Dales ponies, Swaledale sheep, fell races up the dale sides, and the complete absence of any reason to go anywhere else."

Reeth Show

"Grown adults in fancy dress grapple for two minutes in a pool of cold Lancashire gravy on August bank holiday, scored as much on showmanship as on pins, all for the local hospice."

World Gravy Wrestling Championships

"Overdale, under Kilnsey Crag: the Upper Wharfedale show on the first day of September, where Dales cattle and sheep are judged with the limestone overhang looming fifty feet above the showfield."

Kilnsey Show

"The 119th Muker Show is held in the flower-rich meadows of this remote Swaledale village, featuring fell racing, sheepdog trials, and live music from the celebrated Muker Silver Band against a backdrop of some of the finest Dales scenery in Yorkshire."

Muker Agricultural Show

"The 119th Grand Annual Show in idyllic Upper Swaledale, with Swaledale sheep showing, sheepdog running, a fell race, crafts and produce, followed by the whole village singing with Muker Silver Band at 5pm."

Muker Show

"A whole Suffolk market town turns its churches, pubs and castle bailey into stages for a long weekend of folk where most of the music is free and open to all."

Bungay Folk Festival

"Possibly England's oldest continuous sheepdog trials, running since 1898 in front of Longshaw Lodge on the Peak District moors, where a special train once brought 700 spectators down from Manchester."

Longshaw Sheepdog Trials

"One of the oldest carnivals in the UK dating to 1888, Ryde's illuminated procession closes the Island's summer carnival season with a spectacular parade of floats, marching bands and samba groups."

Ryde Carnival

"A riverside marquee at Croft Farm fills with West Country ciders and perries for a weekend of tasting beneath the slopes of Bredon Hill."

Bredon Cider Festival

"Three days of grand ring spectacle in the 1000-acre parkland of Chatsworth House, with hot air balloon ascents, lurcher racing, celebrity chefs, country sports and a vintage fun fair against one of England's great ducal estates."

Chatsworth Country Fair

"Vintage biplanes drone overhead while hard driving bluegrass and old time pickers jam around a bonfire on one of the quirkiest festival fields in the country."

Didmarton Bluegrass 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

"Every first September weekend, the hilltop village of Norland transforms via a self-guided trail through narrow lanes and gardens, with villagers creating hundreds of characters on this year's Sports, Leisure and Games theme, all raising money for local causes."

Norland Scarecrow Festival

"A friendly small scale singing festival in the Surrey countryside where everyone learns a cappella harmonies entirely by ear and ends the weekend performing them around a campfire."

SingFest

"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

"A traditional Dales-edge show of sheep, cattle, poultry, handicraft and horticulture with no horse classes, ending the show season where the Yorkshire moors meet Lancashire."

Bentham Show

"The market town of Devizes at the heart of the Wiltshire countryside holds its food festival in and around the ancient market place each September, celebrating the county's dairy, game, beer and artisan produce in a town whose canal, castle and brewery make it one of the most characterful places to eat well in the south of England."

Devizes Food Festival

"Two September days on the showground at Dorchester with the county at full stretch: livestock from the Purbeck coast and the vale, local cider, local cheese, and Dorset going about its business with its customary lack of fuss."

Dorset County 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

"The tiny village of Kildale in the Cleveland Hills holds its annual show on a September Saturday when the moors above are burning with late heather and the show ring is surrounded by some of the finest high moorland scenery on the North York Moors."

Kildale Show

"A tiny, beloved community show at Lealholm Sports Field in the Esk Valley where farm produce, flowers, baking and local crafts fill the village field, with generations of neighbours competing for honour in every class."

Lealholm Farm Produce and Horticultural Show

"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

"One of the biggest one-day shows in England, held in the Cotswolds on the first Saturday of September, Shetland Pony Grand National, champion cattle, and a showground that fills the whole town with its presence."

Moreton Show

"Traction engines, vintage vehicles and working machinery gather off the A436 near Bourton-on-the-Water for a two-day show in the Cotswold limestone uplands, the kind of event that draws real working-machinery enthusiasts rather than festival-goers and is better for it."

North Cotswold Steam and Vintage Show

"Sixty artisan producers fill the walled garden at Holkham Hall for a free September weekend market, now in its 17th year, with fresh game, bakes, chocolates, local ales and a cookery theatre in one of Norfolk's finest estate settings."

North Norfolk Food and Drink Festival

"More than 60 artisan food and drink producers from across North Norfolk gather in the spectacular Walled Garden of Holkham Hall for a two-day celebration of local produce, live cookery theatre, and street food."

North Norfolk Food Festival

"A traditional illuminated village carnival parade winding through the ancient coastal settlement of Porlock on the edge of Exmoor."

Porlock Carnival

"A sixteen foot thatched rush cart pulled by sixty men in whites and clogs winds between the pubs of the Calder Valley, morris sides dancing it from inn to inn over a September weekend."

Sowerby Bridge Rushbearing

"Claimed to be England's oldest open-air agricultural show, this two-day Weardale event at Scotch Isle Park combines serious livestock competitions with show jumping, birds of prey, an artisan food market, and live music."

Wolsingham Show

"The Malton showground in the Ryedale market town hosts this September traction engine rally where working steam engines from across Yorkshire and the North compete in road runs and working demonstrations, the last major steam show of the Yorkshire summer season."

Yorkshire Traction Engine Rally

"For 16 September days, hundreds of artists and makers open studios, homes and galleries across the Lewes District villages from Lewes to Seaford, Newhaven and the surrounding countryside in its 32nd year as the South East's most accessible open art festival."

Artwave Festival

"A free all-day village fete on Bray's village green, built by the community for the community, with live music, food, family games and village tradition in one of Berkshire's most picturesque Thames-side villages."

Bray Village Fete

"Held on the green beside the River Wharfe since the sixteenth century, with the brutal 1.5 mile dash up Burnsall Fell as its breathless centrepiece."

Burnsall Feast Sports and Classic Fell Race

"Longnor's cobbled market square hosts one of the last well dressings of the season in the Staffordshire Moorlands, a rare continuation of the Derbyshire tradition just over the county border."

Longnor Well Dressing

"One of the oldest Yorkshire Dales sheep shows, established over a century ago at Mossdale near Hawes, with local breeds, home produce, walking-stick carvery and Hawes Silver Band on the windswept moor."

Moorcock Show

"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

"Six dancers carry ancient reindeer antlers, some carbon dated to the eleventh century, twelve miles around a Staffordshire village on Wakes Monday, joined by a hobby horse, a Fool and Maid Marian."

Abbots Bromley Horn Dance

"One of the latest and longest-running well dressings in the season, Hartington's boards grace the stone-clad village square near the duck pond, extending the ancient tradition well into autumn."

Hartington Well Dressing

"Five days of real ale among the steam engines and the great brick viaduct at the East Anglian Railway Museum, the village beer festival that comes with platforms."

Chappel Beer Festival

"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

"Two September days at Crooklands, where Cumbria's livestock and rural skills are given the space they deserve, Herdwick sheep competing in the ring with the Lake District fells as the weather behind them."

Westmorland County Show

"Three days of morris sides, ceilidh and song in a Herefordshire market town surrounded by hop yards and cider orchards."

Bromyard Folk Festival

"Sea shanty crews from across Britain take over five coastal venues, turning the harbour lanes of a tiny North Norfolk village into a roving maritime singalong all weekend."

Brancaster Staithe Sea Shanty Festival

"The most prestigious sheepdog event in the British Isles, held at the Daylesford Estate where the finest handlers from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales compete across three days for the International Supreme title."

International Sheepdog Championship

"One of the original independent food festivals, set in the castle of this celebrated Marches food town."

Ludlow Food Festival

"England's only festival of medieval music fills fourteenth century Bolton Castle and its church with lute, oud and bagpipe as performers explore the forgotten margins of the medieval world."

Medieval Music in the Dales

"Every September the cobbled streets and cottages of this dramatic Yorkshire fishing village open as pop-up galleries for around 100 artists, with heritage talks, lighting installations and live music filling the weekend."

Staithes Festival of Arts and Heritage

"The biggest dance festival in the UK brings over two hundred Morris and dance performances and fifty plus bands to fill a Dorset seaside town with colour and music."

Swanage Folk 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

"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 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

"Somerset in September: a town that has been judging cheese since 1876, Cheddar at its finest, Caerphilly from the Welsh end of things, and a show ring that still takes its goats as seriously as anything."

Frome Cheese Show

"A traditional agricultural show hosted in turn by the farming families of Dunsop Bridge, Newton-in-Bowland and Slaidburn so no two years are the same, set deep in the Forest of Bowland AONB."

Hodder Valley Show

"A 70-acre site in Lower Wensleydale packed with steam ploughing engines, vintage vehicles, falconry, a craft fair and a food market, in a valley setting that makes this one of the most scenic steam events in the north."

Hunton Steam Gathering

"Two days of countryside life at a Ribble Valley village showground, with Vale of Lune Harriers in the main ring, gundog scurries, birds of prey, horse classes and live music drawing families from across the North West."

Lancashire Game and Country Festival

"The Pennine market town of Penistone holds one of the oldest agricultural shows in Yorkshire each September, a show where the Millstone Grit country of the South Yorkshire uplands meets the farming traditions of the Pennine Edge, and where the sheep classes include breeds that have grazed these hills since the medieval wool trade."

Penistone Agricultural Show

"One of Bedfordshire's most traditional village shows held in St Mary's Field, with competitive classes from flower arranging to baking, a craft fair and a barn dance that fills the marquee all evening."

Potton Show

"A one-day Hampshire show by the Test valley with livestock, heavy horses and a grand parade."

Romsey Show

"The Victorian clifftop resort of Saltburn closes its main street to traffic and fills it with artisan food producers from across the North East for this September market, where the restored pier and the cliff tramway form an extraordinary backdrop to a genuinely local food event with no national chains in sight."

Saltburn Food Festival

"A long-running Somerset village carnival bringing illuminated floats and community procession to the streets of South Petherton each autumn."

South Petherton Carnival

"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

"Over 140 artists throw open homes, gardens and public spaces across the historic Derbyshire market town for one autumn weekend, transforming Wirksworth into a walking gallery with free shuttle buses, street music and food stalls."

Wirksworth Festival Art and Architecture Trail

"A traditional village fete held each September in the small West Suffolk village of Barnham, raising over four thousand pounds annually split equally between the local church, school, and village hall."

Barnham Village Fete

"A medieval-rooted fair with onion-eating contests and the heaviest onion competition in a Forest of Dean town."

Newent Onion Fayre

"Jousting, falconry, scurry driving and gun dog displays on the Royal Estate at Sandringham, where traditional country sports play out across two autumn days on the King's own Norfolk ground."

Sandringham Game and Country Fair

"The congregation joins hands around the church in an embracing ceremony in this Peak lead-mining town."

Wirksworth Clypping

"Competitors lob black puddings underarm at a stack of Yorkshire puddings on a plinth, settling an old rivalry."

World Black Pudding Throwing Championships

"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

"Across 400 acres at Old Warden Park, showman's engines power the fairground after dark beneath the Victorian house of the Shuttleworth Collection."

Bedfordshire Steam & Country Fayre

"A 35 year old festival that scatters concerts and slow sessions for beginners between a parish church, the common and snug pub back rooms in a Wharfedale market town."

Otley Folk Festival

"The whole town becomes the 1940s for a weekend, with 20,000 visitors in period dress, a vintage vehicle parade, wartime shop fronts and steam trains running the Poppy Line through to Holt."

Sheringham 1940s Weekend

"For ten September days, Parliament Street and the surrounding streets of historic York fill with over 150 food and drink producers, chef demonstrations, artisan markets, pop-up restaurants and tastings celebrating Yorkshire produce."

York Food and Drink Festival

"One of Somerset's most distinctive named carnivals, the Axbridge Blackberry Carnival celebrates the season with a procession through this handsome medieval market town."

Axbridge Blackberry Carnival

"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

"Crabs (crab apples, thrown from a cart) in the morning, greasy pole and hound trailing through the day, and in the evening competitors push their faces through a horse collar to achieve the most grotesque expression possible, since 1267."

Egremont Crab Fair and World Gurning Championships

"Hardwick Hall's magnificent Elizabethan estate in north Derbyshire provides the setting for this artisan food and drink festival, where producers from across the Midlands set up in the shadow of one of the most celebrated great houses in England on a weekend when the park is at its September best."

Hardwick Hall Artisan Food Festival

"One of the earliest events of the Sussex bonfire season sends costumed societies and burning torches through a pretty Wealden village high street."

Mayfield Bonfire

"In its 21st year, Melbourne Festival opens private gardens, historic halls and family homes not usually accessible to the public, creating a walking art trail through this South Derbyshire market town for 172 artists across 65 venues."

Melbourne Festival Art and Architecture Trail

"Two September days at the Berkshire county showground: livestock, rural crafts, local food and a show ring that has been drawing the county together for well over a century."

Newbury Show

"The North Somerset Agricultural Society's ploughing and hedgelaying match brings competitors to farmland on the edge of the Mendips each September, one of the few places in England where the ancient double craft of ploughing and laying a hedge is still judged in competition on the same day."

North Somerset Ploughing Match

"A one-day North Yorkshire show in September that has been the anchor of the Stokesley social calendar since 1859, prize Cleveland Bays, heavy horses, North York Moors ponies, and a town that turns out completely."

Stokesley Show

"Bewerley Park on the third Sunday of September: the valley gathers itself for one more great day before autumn sets in, with Dales ponies, produce and the particular amber light of Nidderdale in September."

Nidderdale Show

"Parishioners join hands to embrace their church among the famous 99 yews of this Cotswold wool village."

Painswick Clypping Ceremony

"The Staffordshire village of Pattingham mounts scarecrows through its streets and gardens for three late September days, running alongside fairground rides and food stalls at the village club in a festival that has quietly become one of the best attended scarecrow events in the Midlands."

Pattingham Scarecrow Festival

"Five days of classical music, recitals and choral performances in and around the magnificent 7th-century Hexham Abbey, one of the finest ecclesiastical settings for live music in northern England."

Hexham Abbey Festival of Music and Arts

"A small but perfectly formed music festival with a heart of folk spread across barns and an orchard on a working farm on the wild North Norfolk coast."

Deepdale Festival

"A volunteer run weekend of folk in a North Pennine village that climaxes with the marketplace burning of a wooden sculpture of the legendary Allendale Wolf."

Allen Valleys Folk Festival

"Suffolk producers gather at Snape Maltings by the river for two days of tastings and demonstrations."

Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival

"The Staffordshire County Showground organises district ploughing and hedgelaying matches each autumn, and the Eccleshall round draws competitors from across the county to farmland around one of Staffordshire's quieter market towns for a full day of working countryside skills."

Eccleshall District Ploughing and Hedgelaying Match