Attleborough Summer Carnival and Party on the Park
A Norfolk market town throws its biggest party of the year with a thumping music stage, a growing carnival parade and three days of community fun on the recreation ground.
A working Norfolk market town rather than a showpiece village, but St Mary's church with its exceptional medieval rood screen and a Thursday market with roots stretching back to 1285 give a purposeful visitor two solid reasons to stop.
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"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
"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
"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
✦ Weird and Wonderful"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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