Faversham Hop Festival
Hop-picking made this Kentish market town. Every September the harvest reclaims the streets: real ale, folk dancing, a parade, stalls and the smell of hops in the air. Free to attend.
Faversham is one of the most rewarding market towns in Kent: a charter market three days a week, around 500 listed buildings, Britain's oldest brewery still brewing on site, and a Grade I church with a painted medieval column that alone justifies the trip.
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"A beloved volunteer-run community show at Holden Farm gathering up to 300 vintage and classic tractors alongside family entertainment, live music and rural crafts to raise funds for local causes."
Biddenden Tractorfest
"A Surrey and Kent border show that runs across August Bank Holiday weekend with genuine character: horses, cattle, show jumping, and the Weald at its most golden."
Edenbridge and Oxted Agricultural Show
"Set in the grounds of the historic Quex Park estate, this established two-day country show celebrates British countryside traditions with main-ring displays, crafts and family entertainment."
Kent Country Show
"Whitstable's reborn oyster festival, in its 5th year, fills the Grading Shed, East Quay and Long Beach with the historic Oyster Landing Ceremony, live music, a mud tug-of-war, a samba procession and Marshall Jefferson on the Saturday night."
Whitstable Rocks Oyster Festival
"Horse and tractor ploughing judged furrow by furrow across a Kent stubble field, with a farmers market, gymkhana and the unhurried social weather of a working country day."
Weald of Kent Ploughing Match
"On the wide clay plateau of the Hoo Peninsula above the Thames estuary, ploughmen from across Kent compete at Newlands Farm in an autumn match where the vast skies and the distant flicker of the estuary light add a particular melancholy grandeur to the furrows."
Cliffe Ploughing Match
"The Goodwood motor circuit returns to its 1948 specification each September for a three-day historic racing meeting where spectators and competitors alike wear period dress, the paddock smells of Castrol R, and ERA and pre-war Bentley machinery is raced in anger as though the last seventy years had not happened."
Goodwood Revival
"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
"Thirty specialist nurseries gather at Christopher Lloyd's legendary experimental garden for a weekend of rare plants, short plantsmanship talks at the stalls and famous cake."
Great Dixter Autumn Plant Fair
"Over 110,000 tulips in 120 varieties bloom across the 38-acre grounds of a medieval ducal castle, creating one of the largest spring bulb displays in Europe."
Arundel Castle Tulip Festival
"Over 40,000 tulips in more than 100 varieties fill the colour-themed rooms of an 11-acre High Weald garden surrounding a Grade I-listed Tudor manor house, with Bloms Bulbs experts on hand throughout."
Pashley Manor Tulip Festival
"More than 15 hidden gardens open in one of Surrey's most photographed villages, tucked between the North Downs and the Tillingbourne stream with roses round every corner."
Shere Open Gardens