Castle Combe Christmas Market
The prettiest village in Wiltshire opens its village hall for a handful of December market days, the kind of small, candlelit affair the postcard villages do best.
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"A not-for-profit charity fundraiser held over the August Bank Holiday at Dauntsey, combining classic vehicles, country crafts, animals, live music and food in a genuine village showground setting."
Dauntsey Festival of Transport and Country Show
"The market town of Devizes at the heart of the Wiltshire countryside holds its food festival in and around the ancient market place each September, celebrating the county's dairy, game, beer and artisan produce in a town whose canal, castle and brewery make it one of the most characterful places to eat well in the south of England."
Devizes Food Festival
"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
"Bonnets, top hats and candlelight transform the timber framed National Trust village into a living Dickens novel for one twilit evening."
Dickensian Lacock
"Villagers claim ancient rights to gather wood, then process to Salisbury Cathedral to shout Grovely."
Grovely and Oak Apple Day
"Over 70 sea-themed scarecrows fill a Wiltshire village each June, with musicians, stalls and the Elizabeth Coles charity prize; the festival has raised over £120,000 for good causes since it began in 2000."
Kington Langley Scarecrow Festival
"A charter fair famous in Devon song, filling the stannary town's streets with stalls and rides each October."
Tavistock Goosey Fair
"The medieval village of Dunster, complete with castle and octagonal market house, transforms each December into a torch-lit winter festival with medieval re-enactment, a banquet, live music and a torchlit procession through the ancient streets."
Dunster Winter Festival
"Tetbury's beloved annual Christmas Fayre fills the streets around the historic Market House with craft and gift stalls, live music from the Silver Band, Santa's grotto, and a community lights switch-on at 6pm that draws the whole town together."
Tetbury Christmas Fayre and Market
"The most perfect high street in the Cotswolds hosts its Christmas market each early December, with honey-gold limestone buildings lit by torches, stalls that seem to belong to another century and the smell of mulled wine drifting past the fourteenth-century Market Hall."
Chipping Campden Christmas Market
"This Somerset village built around a turreted castle and a working octagonal Yarn Market fills its cobbled streets for a December market, where the medieval buildings and the Exmoor hills rising beyond provide a backdrop that would be impossible to fabricate."
Dunster Christmas Market
"Set around Wells Cathedral and the historic Market Place, this council-run annual market draws over 100 stalls of handmade gifts, local food and drink, and live music into one of England's smallest and most ancient cities."
Wells Christmas Market