Ballater Christmas Market
The Royal Deeside village that sits at the foot of the hills above Balmoral holds its Christmas market each December in a setting in the Cairngorms National Park that very few other Christmas markets anywhere in Britain can match for sheer backdrop.
A handsome Victorian granite village with genuine royal-railway history, a Michelin-recognised restaurant punching well above its size, and enough independent shops and cafes to reward a proper half-day stop on Royal Deeside.
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"Heavy events, highland dancing and pipe bands on Aboyne Green in a long-running Deeside gathering."
Aboyne Highland Games
"Scotland's largest two-day agricultural show, established in 1864, draws around 24,000 visitors to The Haughs in Turriff for over 1,554 competition classes spanning livestock, working dogs and vintage vehicles."
Turriff Show
"Classic Deeside games of caber, hammer and dancing in a village beside Balmoral."
Ballater Highland Games
"The Royal Deeside market town of Banchory hosts its agricultural show each August at the gateway to the Cairngorms, where Aberdeenshire beef and Highland cattle are judged against a backdrop of the Forest of Birse and the River Dee shining in the valley below."
Banchory Show
"The March of the Lonach Highlanders, kilted men with pikes walking the glen, precedes a day of games at Strathdon."
Lonach Highland Gathering
"One of Scotland's most distinctive gatherings, the Lonach sees kilted clansmen march twelve miles carrying pikes before the Highland Games begin at Bellabeg in the upper Don valley."
Lonach Highland and Friendly Society Gathering
"The multicoloured painted houses of Tobermory harbour are strung with lights as local producers set up their Christmas market by the pontoons, coinciding with the lights switch-on that turns this Isle of Mull town into a winter scene that passengers on the Oban ferry can see from the water."
Tobermory Christmas Market
"This small South Lanarkshire market town, known for its remarkable puppet theatre and its unusually well-preserved High Street, lights up for a December winterfest that draws visitors from across the Clyde Valley for community entertainment and a properly Scottish Christmas welcome."
Biggar Winterfest
"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 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