Burford Christmas

"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

"Fairport Convention host a vast folk-rock reunion in a field beside this Oxfordshire canal village each August."

Fairport's Cropredy Convention

"A small, inclusive festival that feels like a weekend-long party, with daily singarounds, sessions and workshops where everyone is invited to play a part."

White Horse Folk Festival

"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

"Costumed Dickens characters, carol singers and guaranteed snow flurries fill the old high street beneath the Norman castle and cathedral."

Rochester Dickensian Christmas

"A traditional free-entry fete on a Surrey village green, with a Fun Dog Show, plant stalls and local entertainment on one of the prettiest commons in the Surrey Hills."

Shamley Green Village Fete

"A long-running Surrey carnival on the A23 Recreation Ground, with a traditional parade, family entertainment and local community stalls drawing the whole town together on a June Saturday."

Horley Carnival

"The Surrey village built around the ornamental lake created for George III holds its annual summer fete each June, a classic English village event on the edge of the Royal landscape of Windsor Great Park where marquees go up on the village green and the smell of cut grass and coconut shy mingles with the lake beyond."

Virginia Water Village Fete

"40 floats parade through Farnham on a Stage and Screen theme, followed by a fayre in Gostrey Meadow from 2pm, organised by the Hedgehogs of Farnham since the 1900s."

Farnham Carnival

"A cherished Kent village parade through decorated streets ending at the recreation field for a traditional fete with arena events, with all entry proceeds going to charity."

Knockholt Village Carnival