Hope Well Dressing
Tucked between Mam Tor and Win Hill in the Hope Valley, this charming village presses vivid petalled panels beside its springs each summer while the great ridgelines of the Peak stand watch overhead.
A well-served, unpretentious Peak District village with a proper railway station, a Good Beer Guide pub, a deli, cafes, a Spar, a fortnightly market, and enough walking country on its doorstep to justify a full day without ever needing to get back in the car.
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"Three wells dressed with intricate flower-and-clay panels anchor a full week of events in this limestone gorge village each late July, including a fell race, model boat race, treasure hunt and brass band on the village green."
Stoney Middleton Well Dressing
"On the last Saturday of the month the Agricultural Business Centre fills with Peak District producers, in the town that gave its name to the pudding."
Bakewell Farmers' Market
"At the Barley Mow pub in Bonsall village, hens race over a thirty-foot course in heats building to a grand final, watched by enthusiastic crowds who take this Derbyshire Peak District tradition with exactly the gravity it deserves."
Bonsall World Championship Hen Racing
✦ Weird and Wonderful"A well-loved Peak District village custom in the heart of the Hope Valley, where Bradwell's community gathers each August to display and bless its hand-crafted petal mosaics."
Bradwell Well Dressing
"Derbyshire's premier steam and heritage show on a hillside farm in the Peak District fringes, with a working plant area, military living history groups, a wall of death and over 300 years of machinery on display in a single field."
Cromford Steam Rally
"First Saturday of the month on the Memorial Gardens, with local produce, music and the steep stone streets of a former lead mining town climbing away on every side."
Wirksworth Farmers' Market
"A Cotswold-edge fete with a home produce competition, welly wanging and a prize-winning cider bar runs alongside three days of fabulous flower displays adorning the village church."
Childswickham Village Fete and Flower Festival
"Six dancers carry ancient reindeer antlers, some carbon dated to the eleventh century, twelve miles around a Staffordshire village on Wakes Monday, joined by a hobby horse, a Fool and Maid Marian."
Abbots Bromley Horn Dance
Villagly Award · Oldest Dance in the UK ✦ Weird and Wonderful"A 12-acre restored Lincolnshire garden fills with carpets of snowdrops each February, drawing visitors through a yew tunnel and along the River Witham as the first winter blooms of the year emerge."
Easton Walled Gardens Snowdrop Season
"Gardens of every size open in a sandstone village beneath Harpole Hills, mixing lush tropical plantings, water features, herb gardens and lovingly tended kitchen plots."
Harpole Open Gardens
"Up to eight gardens open beside the River Ise, from small terraced plots to the sweeping grounds of Bosworth House, with a medieval church, a friendly pub and a little bridge to cross."
Arthingworth Open Gardens
"A village that has opened its gardens and decked its church with themed floral art since 1963, with over 20 plots ranging from classic cottage to lovably eccentric."
Flore Flower Festival and Open Gardens