Boconnoc Steam Fair

"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

"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

"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

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

Lostwithiel Carnival

"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 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

"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

"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

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

Painswick Clypping Ceremony

"The farm shop team lay out apples gathered from local orchards for sampling against the backdrop of one of England's grandest landscape gardens."

Apple Day at Stourhead

"Townsfolk hoist barrels soaked in tar and set alight onto their shoulders and run them flaming through packed Devon streets on bonfire night, a roaring, slightly terrifying inheritance passed down through local families."

Ottery St Mary Tar Barrels

"Set in a hidden Cotswold valley, this 18th-century rococo garden opens each January for its annual snowdrop season, showcasing over five million blooms across fifteen named varieties including the locally discovered Galanthus 'Atkinsii'."

Snowdrops Spectacle at Painswick Rococo Garden