Burnham Market Christmas
The village green of this pretty Georgian North Norfolk village is wrapped in festoon lights for its annual Christmas light switch-on, surrounded by food stalls, craft sellers, ponies, Santa and fairground rides in a scene that somehow looks exactly like a Christmas card should.
Burnham Market punches well above its weight for a village of its size: a handsome Georgian green ringed by independent butchers, bakers, delis, galleries and boutiques, with a Michelin-noted restaurant and three real ale pubs, all of which makes it a genuine destination rather than a pretty accident.
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"A fortnight of concerts, masterclasses and ensemble music-making at Gresham's School in the Georgian market town of Holt, continuing the tradition of the renowned Dartington International Summer School in a Norfolk setting."
Music Summer School and Festival
"A full week of North Norfolk seaside pageantry crowned by the Red Arrows over the pier, a revived town-centre parade and a sandcastle competition that the whole family takes very seriously."
Cromer Carnival
"An international event (which means people from Sheringham and further afield take part) on Cromer Pier, where crabbers compete to catch the greatest number and the largest specimen in two hours, with all crabs returned to the sea to wait for next year."
World Pier Crabbing Championships
✦ Weird and Wonderful"A one-day Norfolk agricultural show at the end of August on the market town's own showground, quiet, well-organised and deeply Norfolk, in a county that does agricultural shows as well as anywhere."
Aylsham Show
"Sixty artisan producers fill the walled garden at Holkham Hall for a free September weekend market, now in its 17th year, with fresh game, bakes, chocolates, local ales and a cookery theatre in one of Norfolk's finest estate settings."
North Norfolk Food and Drink Festival
"More than 60 artisan food and drink producers from across North Norfolk gather in the spectacular Walled Garden of Holkham Hall for a two-day celebration of local produce, live cookery theatre, and street food."
North Norfolk Food Festival
"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
"Forty local crafters and artisan makers fill the medieval village hall of this Suffolk wool town for a two-day Christmas market, running alongside the award-winning Lavenham Farmers Market and a pop-up cafe in one of England's best-preserved medieval streetscapes."
Lavenham Christmas Craft Market
"Hundreds of stalls spill through Georgian streets and around the cathedral in one of East Anglia's most atmospheric small-town festive markets."
Bury St Edmunds Christmas Fayre
"The Suffolk market town whose Norman castle looms over its rooftops brings its square alive with stalls each December, a small and properly local market where the castle walls provide a backdrop that no purpose-built Christmas market could ever replicate."
Framlingham Christmas Market
"The medieval hilltop village comes alive with 40 stalls, live music and the flavours of East Suffolk in a community market that refreshes four times a year."
Wickham Market Summer Market on the Hill
"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