Chelsworth Open Gardens
In its 57th year and the first open gardens event of its kind in the country, around twenty gardens welcome visitors with a vintage tractor rally and Morris dancers winding through a timbered Brett valley village.
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"Suffolk's award-winning seaside carnival fills the shingle beach town of Aldeburgh across a summer Bank Holiday weekend, with a procession, 10K Mini Marathon, community events and the particular magic of carnival lights on the North Sea."
Aldeburgh Carnival
"402 years old and still going: the parade winds through the market town to the riverside quay for a weekend of live music, a fun dog show and genuine community spirit."
Beccles Carnival
"Three days of music, ale, art and family on a Suffolk estate, famed for its premieres and firsts and a reputation as one of the best-loved folk weekends in the country."
FolkEast
"Two days of Suffolk country life on the grounds of Framlingham College, with a dedicated dog show, local produce, rural crafts and live music in a properly family-friendly setting."
Framlingham Country Show
"The final ever edition of a 40-year tradition brings Renaissance and Baroque voices to the ancient wool-trade churches of Lavenham, Kersey and Clare for one last magnificent farewell."
Suffolk Villages Festival
"The medieval market town of Bury St Edmunds fills its Abbey Gardens and town centre with artisan food and drink producers each August Bank Holiday, a free festival that celebrates Suffolk's extraordinary larder of provender from the Breckland and the farmland of west Suffolk."
Bury St Edmunds Food and Drink Festival
"Each August Bank Holiday, the medieval church of St Peter ad Vincula in this Essex wool town is transformed into a themed spectacle of flowers that has dazzled visitors for over three decades."
Coggeshall Flower Festival
"The whole town becomes the 1940s for a weekend, with 20,000 visitors in period dress, a vintage vehicle parade, wartime shop fronts and steam trains running the Poppy Line through to Holt."
Sheringham 1940s Weekend
"Millions of snowdrops naturalised over centuries carpet 18 acres of medieval abbey grounds in Norfolk, opening daily from the last Monday of January through the first Sunday of March."
Walsingham Abbey Snowdrops
"A supersize village fete run by 400 volunteers fills the lanes with daffodils, a working blacksmith's forge, Morris dancers, heavy-horse dray rides and live music for a springtime charity celebration."
Thriplow Daffodil Weekend
"Twenty acres of gardens and lakeside walks open around a medieval moated manor in a quiet corner of north Norfolk, with roses grown here for centuries and woodland beyond."
Mannington Estate Gardens
"A spectacular new RHS show opens at the private royal estate in Norfolk, with show gardens personally chosen by King Charles III and a full programme of horticultural talks."
RHS Sandringham Flower Show