Exbury Gardens Spring Season
Set in the New Forest on the banks of the Beaulieu River, this Grade II* listed 200-acre woodland garden bursts each spring with the Rothschild collection of rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias, all accessible by a narrow-gauge steam railway.
Exbury is not a village to wander for its own sake - it has no pub, no shop, and no street life to speak of - but the Grade II* gardens are among the finest woodland gardens in England and reward a half-day visit handsomely, especially in spring.
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"Gateway Square on the last Saturday of the month. New Forest produce, familiar faces, and no particular reason to rush home."
Ringwood Farmers Market
"A market under the Hartley Wintney oaks on the last Sunday of the month, Hampshire smallholders and bakers in a famously leafy village on the old coaching road."
Hartley Wintney Farmers' Market
"The Cathedral city's market, twice monthly. A Sunday morning with the High Street, the close, and nowhere better to be."
Winchester Market
"Three July days at New Park, Brockenhurst: New Forest ponies, cattle from across the south, local food, country sports, and a showground set inside one of England's ancient royal hunting grounds."
New Forest and Hampshire County Show
"Four days of roots, folk and rock music on a Hampshire farm near a medieval village, with headliners alongside comedy, theatre, storytelling and workshops in a festival that has won Best UK Festival for its relaxed, family-friendly atmosphere."
Wickham Festival
"On the first Sunday of August the entire high street of one of England's smallest market towns closes to traffic as local food and craft traders take over Stockbridge's famous single street."
Stockbridge Trout n About
"Each late winter, a privately owned Berkshire estate opens its 5-acre beech wood to reveal one of the UK's largest carpets of snowdrops alongside the River Lambourn, in a tradition running for over 50 years."
Welford Park Snowdrop Season
"Tutti-men carrying flower-topped poles call on every common-right house to collect a kiss and a coin."
Hungerford Hocktide and Tutti Day
"The Swallowfield Horticultural Society opens village and countryside gardens for a charity day, drawing nearly 400 visitors last year to this quietly lovely corner of Berkshire."
Swallowfield Village Open Gardens
"A heritage steam and vintage rally held across a beautiful private country estate near Liskeard, celebrating working engines and rural craft."
Boconnoc Steam Fair
"Three wells dressed with intricate flower-and-clay panels anchor a full week of events in this limestone gorge village each late July, including a fell race, model boat race, treasure hunt and brass band on the village green."
Stoney Middleton Well Dressing
"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