Hardwick Hall Artisan Food Festival
Hardwick Hall's magnificent Elizabethan estate in north Derbyshire provides the setting for this artisan food and drink festival, where producers from across the Midlands set up in the shadow of one of the most celebrated great houses in England on a weekend when the park is at its September best.
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"One of the last Derbyshire wells dressed entirely in the old way with no nails or glue, just clay boards pressed petal by petal, blessed with a service and kept up for five days."
Barlow Well Dressing
"An annual one-day agricultural show in the southern Peak District gateway town of Ashbourne, celebrating local livestock, rural skills and Derbyshire farming heritage."
Ashbourne Show
"A full week of Derbyshire village carnival life with well dressings, a flower festival, a scarecrow competition and then the spectacular Saturday parade of floats, fancy dress and Carnival Royalty through the village, followed by classic cars, alpacas and children's entertainment on the recreation ground."
Barlow Carnival
"The plague village dresses its wells in late August, the same clay and petal craft as its neighbours, in a place that carries more history per cottage than almost anywhere in England."
Eyam Well Dressing
"One of the highest-altitude well dressings in Derbyshire, Taddington's boards are dressed and displayed in a windswept limestone plateau village above the Wye Valley."
Taddington Well Dressing
"One of Derbyshire's most tranquil well dressings appears in this small hamlet near Miller's Dale each August, where the petal-and-clay panel stands in one of the quietest and most beautiful corners of the White Peak."
Wormhill Well Dressing
"A riverside marquee at Croft Farm fills with West Country ciders and perries for a weekend of tasting beneath the slopes of Bredon Hill."
Bredon Cider Festival
"One of the original independent food festivals, set in the castle of this celebrated Marches food town."
Ludlow Food Festival
"The Three Counties Showground at the foot of the Malvern Hills hosts its annual autumn show each late September, combining fine food and drink producers from the Welsh Marches with garden produce, livestock and countryside crafts in one of the best-attended autumn shows in the Midlands."
Malvern Autumn Show
"This market-town celebration brings apple pressing, cider tastings and orchard stalls to the streets above the River Wye as part of Herefordshire's apple fortnight."
Ross-on-Wye AppleFest
"More than three hundred varieties of apple are laid out for tasting alongside local ciders pressed from the orchards of three neighbouring counties."
Tenbury Applefest
"Across hidden farms, cider barns and manor gardens around the Marcle Ridge you can watch perry pears being pressed and taste makers' wares straight from the cask."
Big Apple Harvestime