Isle of Wight Walking Festival
A multi-award-winning walking festival in its 27th year, with guided routes across the Island's chalk downland, hidden coves and ancient woodland over nine autumn days, led by knowledgeable volunteers.
Newport is the busy, workaday capital of the Isle of Wight rather than a quaint village: it earns a visit for its independent food scene, a genuinely strong real ale micropub, Georgian market squares and easy access to Carisbrooke Castle, but anyone expecting rural charm will need to look to the surrounding Island instead.
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"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
"The Isle of Wight's capital transforms for its annual summer carnival, with the illuminated procession on 20 August filling the town centre with floats, music and light."
Newport Carnival
"Since 1983 the Island's biggest summer show at Fighting Cocks Crossroads near Newchurch has celebrated garlic grown on the Isle of Wight, with star chefs, live music and a Garlic Queen."
Isle of Wight Garlic Festival
"A full week of summer fun in the tiniest town on the Isle of Wight: river sports, boat racing, sandcastle competitions, treasure hunts, a dog show and a grand procession through Yarmouth's medieval streets."
Yarmouth Carnival Week
"A three-day seaside spectacle in the tiny village of Seaview complete with a greasy pole over the sea, tug of war, swimming races, diving and a fireworks display over the Solent."
Seaview Village Regatta
✦ Weird and Wonderful"One of the oldest carnivals in the UK dating to 1888, Ryde's illuminated procession closes the Island's summer carnival season with a spectacular parade of floats, marching bands and samba groups."
Ryde Carnival
"Whitewool Farm at East Meon, tucked in the chalk valley below Old Winchester Hill in the South Downs, hosts the Petersfield district ploughing match each autumn where the downland light and the long views south give ploughing competition a backdrop rarely matched in southern England."
Petersfield District Ploughing Match
"Caber-tossing and Highland dancing come to the Alice Littler Memorial Park in the heart of Speyside whisky country."
Aberlour Strathspey Highland Games
"One of Ireland's oldest rural sports comes to the country roads of County Armagh, where competitors hurl a heavy iron bowl along miles of tarmac in the fewest throws, drawing huge roadside crowds in a tradition stretching back centuries."
Irish Road Bowling All Ireland Series
"The 225th running: the Egton Bridge Old Gooseberry Society meets in a North York Moors village to weigh berries that have been grown in secret since March, and the champion is measured in drams, not centimetres."
Egton Bridge Old Gooseberry Show
✦ Weird and Wonderful"Athletes race up Sron a'Chlachain in a punishing hill race while pipers march over the Falls of Dochart bridge at the western end of Loch Tay."
Killin Highland Games
"The pinnacle of English sheepdog competition, run across four days on a Cheshire hillside where the country's finest handlers and their Border Collies compete for a place at the International."
English National Sheepdog Trials