Goodwood Revival
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.
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"Sixteen days of classical music, jazz and spoken word in the churches, halls and historic spaces of a handsome Sussex market town. Sheku Kanneh-Mason among the 2026 headliners."
Petworth Summer 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
"Ten August days and over 200 events transform this castle town into a celebration of music, drama, street art and bathtub racing, with Shakespeare performed in the Arundel Castle gardens each evening as the sun goes down."
Arundel Festival
"A South Downs village fair that has been trading sheep since the 12th century, still entirely about the sheep, still held on the village green, and still rather pleased with itself about both."
Findon Sheep Fair
"The narrow streets of this West Sussex market town host a makers Christmas market each late November in the shadow of Petworth House's vast estate wall, a properly artisan alternative to the big city versions with only locally produced gifts on offer."
Petworth Christmas Market
"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
"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
"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
"Set among the National Fruit Collection's two thousand apple varieties, the fair lets you taste forgotten heritage fruit and tour the living orchard library that holds them."
Brogdale Apple Fair
"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
"Each spring, the 10 acres of ancient woodland at this privately owned High Weald estate are carpeted in native bluebells, with a circular walk past a restored 18th-century ice house and a real-time Bluebell Barometer to help visitors catch the peak display."
Hole Park Bluebell Spectacular