Faversham Open Gardens and Garden Market
Dozens of walled town gardens open in one of England's best-preserved medieval market towns, alongside a garden market in the ancient centre.
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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"Kent's largest line-up of traction, wagon, roller and showman engines works a threshing and saw-bench area beside a Victorian carousel at Little Engeham Farm."
Weald of Kent Steam & Country Show
"Eight days, 400 events, 20 venues across a Kentish coastal town. Concerts, ceilidhs, a parade and over 160 free events. The kind of week that makes a modest seaside town briefly essential."
Broadstairs Folk Week
"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
"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 Hop Festival
"The Findon Village Gardens Association fills the hall with prize blooms, vegetables, baking and handicrafts in a friendly South Downs show that has been a fixture of village life for decades."
Findon Village Summer Flower Show
"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