Grovely and Oak Apple Day
Villagers claim ancient rights to gather wood, then process to Salisbury Cathedral to shout Grovely.
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"A not-for-profit charity fundraiser held over the August Bank Holiday at Dauntsey, combining classic vehicles, country crafts, animals, live music and food in a genuine village showground setting."
Dauntsey Festival of Transport and Country Show
"The market town of Devizes at the heart of the Wiltshire countryside holds its food festival in and around the ancient market place each September, celebrating the county's dairy, game, beer and artisan produce in a town whose canal, castle and brewery make it one of the most characterful places to eat well in the south of England."
Devizes Food Festival
"The farm shop team lay out apples gathered from local orchards for sampling against the backdrop of one of England's grandest landscape gardens."
Apple Day at Stourhead
"The prettiest village in Wiltshire opens its village hall for a handful of December market days, the kind of small, candlelit affair the postcard villages do best."
Castle Combe Christmas Market
"Bonnets, top hats and candlelight transform the timber framed National Trust village into a living Dickens novel for one twilit evening."
Dickensian Lacock
"Over 70 sea-themed scarecrows fill a Wiltshire village each June, with musicians, stalls and the Elizabeth Coles charity prize; the festival has raised over £120,000 for good causes since it began in 2000."
Kington Langley Scarecrow Festival
"Traction engines, vintage vehicles and working machinery gather off the A436 near Bourton-on-the-Water for a two-day show in the Cotswold limestone uplands, the kind of event that draws real working-machinery enthusiasts rather than festival-goers and is better for it."
North Cotswold Steam and Vintage Show
"Parishioners join hands to embrace their church among the famous 99 yews of this Cotswold wool village."
Painswick Clypping Ceremony
"Townsfolk hoist barrels soaked in tar and set alight onto their shoulders and run them flaming through packed Devon streets on bonfire night, a roaring, slightly terrifying inheritance passed down through local families."
Ottery St Mary Tar Barrels
Villagly Award · Fieriest Night in the UK ✦ Weird and Wonderful"Set in a hidden Cotswold valley, this 18th-century rococo garden opens each January for its annual snowdrop season, showcasing over five million blooms across fifteen named varieties including the locally discovered Galanthus 'Atkinsii'."
Snowdrops Spectacle at Painswick Rococo Garden
"Six million snowdrops in over 40 varieties carpet the Victorian Fernery, Lime Avenue, and Lady's Walk of this National Trust estate, with volunteer-led early morning walks before the gates open to the public."
Kingston Lacy Snowdrop Season
"A family snowdrop collection rooted in Henry John Elwes's 1874 discovery of Galanthus elwesii in Turkey has grown to over 350 varieties across ten lakeside and woodland acres in the Cotswold Churn valley."
Colesbourne Park Snowdrop Season