Biggar Winterfest
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.
A well-stocked historic market town with a CAMRA-awarded pub, an artisan bakery-cafe, independent shops, and a clutch of genuinely unusual museums - more substance than its size suggests, though you will need a car to reach it.
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"One of the largest Hogmanay bonfires in Scotland, lit in the heart of this Borders town every New Year's Eve."
Biggar Bonfire
"Local children race round the parish church swinging paper balls on string to chase away winter."
Whuppity Scoorie
"One of Scotland's oldest surviving civic traditions, Lanark Lanimers commemorates the riding of the town's marches each June, with a week of events building to Lanimer Day when the decorated horse parade and crowning of the Lanimer Queen fills the Royal Burgh with colour."
Lanark Lanimers
"The South Lanarkshire fruit-growing town of Carluke marks its annual summer gala with a procession, the crowning of the Queen and a community street party that has gathered the whole town together on the second Saturday of June for generations in one of Scotland's most cheerfully persistent summer traditions."
Carluke Gala Day
"Craighead Park in this South Lanarkshire village hosts Highland games that have run without interruption for well over a century, a local event that stands apart from the tourist circuit and is attended almost entirely by people who drove twenty minutes from home."
Lesmahagow Highland Games
"Scottish fiddle supergroup Blazin' Fiddles welcomes fiddlers, guitarists and pianists to venues across this Lanarkshire town for a weekend of classes, sessions and craic."
Blazin in Biggar
"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
"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."
Ballater Christmas Market
"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
"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
"Rare breed sheep fill the market square with sheep racing, shearing and Wensleydale crafts."
Masham Sheep Fair
"A charter sheep fair held every October since 1238 in this south Lincolnshire village."
Corby Glen Sheep Fair