Blenheim Palace Christmas Market
Sixty handpicked chalets fill the Great Court of Blenheim Palace for five weeks, with artisan gifts, seasonal food and drink and a Cinderella-themed illuminated light trail winding through the palace grounds after dark.
Woodstock earns its day: a handsome Georgian market town of warm Cotswold stone, a farmers market, good independent cafes and pubs, and Blenheim Palace - a UNESCO World Heritage Site - opening through a triumphal arch directly onto the Market Place.
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"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
"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
"The handsome Oxfordshire market town of Thame fills its wide high street with artisan food and drink producers on the last weekend of September, a free festival that draws chefs for demonstrations and locals for the kind of independent food stalls that national food courts have been failing to replicate for thirty years."
Thame Food Festival
"Ten days of author talks, debates and performances filling the regatta town of Henley-on-Thames each October, one of England's most distinguished literary festivals in one of its most beautiful river settings."
Henley Literary Festival
"An autumn celebration of heritage and unusual apple varieties held in the beautiful walled gardens at Waterperry, featuring specialist nurseries, tastings and seasonal planting advice."
Apple Weekend at Waterperry Gardens
"The FFF&B Ploughing Society rotates its autumn competition between farms in the Cotswold Water Park country south of Burford, where the flat river gravel fields and the stone walls of the Windrush villages provide a classic setting for working horses and steel ploughs to contest the straightest furrow."
Fairford Faringdon Filkins and Burford Ploughing Match
"The wide High Street of this Wealden market town fills with over 100 stalls for ten days each November, coinciding with the Christmas tree lights switch-on and drawing visitors from across Kent for street food, artisan groceries and handmade crafts across three outdoor stages."
Tenterden Christmas Market
"The narrow streets of this West Sussex market town host a makers Christmas market each late November in the shadow of Petworth House's vast estate wall, a properly artisan alternative to the big city versions with only locally produced gifts on offer."
Petworth Christmas Market
"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
"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