Hollycombe Festival of Steam
Britain's largest working steam collection erupts into life for two days in South Downs woodland, with Edwardian fairground rides, narrow-gauge railways and a traction engine that once pulled a whole circus.
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"Gateway Square on the last Saturday of the month. New Forest produce, familiar faces, and no particular reason to rush home."
Ringwood Farmers Market
"A market under the Hartley Wintney oaks on the last Sunday of the month, Hampshire smallholders and bakers in a famously leafy village on the old coaching road."
Hartley Wintney Farmers' Market
"The Cathedral city's market, twice monthly. A Sunday morning with the High Street, the close, and nowhere better to be."
Winchester Market
"Three July days at New Park, Brockenhurst: New Forest ponies, cattle from across the south, local food, country sports, and a showground set inside one of England's ancient royal hunting grounds."
New Forest and Hampshire County Show
"Four days of roots, folk and rock music on a Hampshire farm near a medieval village, with headliners alongside comedy, theatre, storytelling and workshops in a festival that has won Best UK Festival for its relaxed, family-friendly atmosphere."
Wickham Festival
"On the first Sunday of August the entire high street of one of England's smallest market towns closes to traffic as local food and craft traders take over Stockbridge's famous single street."
Stockbridge Trout n About
"The Island's largest horticultural show at Chale Recreation Ground draws over 1,500 entries and thousands of visitors to a village on the wild south coast of the Isle of Wight, with OG Performance Horses in the main arena."
Chale Show
"Two September days at the Berkshire county showground: livestock, rural crafts, local food and a show ring that has been drawing the county together for well over a century."
Newbury Show
"The Thames-side village of Hurst holds its two-day show each late June with livestock, horticulture, show jumping and a country fayre that draws the farms and market gardens of the Loddon valley together in one of Berkshire's best-attended traditional summer events."
Hurst Show and Country Fayre
"The island's principal agricultural show brings livestock, horses, show jumping and countryside crafts to the Newport showground each July, a two-day event where the county's farming families have been competing in the same rings since the Victorian era and the judges still know everyone by name."
Royal Isle of Wight County Show
"Started as a horse show and still built around the grand parade of Shires, ponies and hounds, Woolsery Show is 120 years of North Devon rural life in a single summer Monday near the dramatic Clovelly coast."
Woolsery Show
"One of the largest one-day agricultural shows in the North of England, set in the magnificent parkland of Duncombe Park with over 250 trade stands, sheepdog trials, a brass band and a showcase of local livestock and crafts."
Ryedale Show