Marlborough Open Studios
Artists across the chalk downs throw open their working studios for a sprawling free art trail through some of the loveliest scenery in the North Wessex Downs.
One of England's finest market towns: a genuinely wide, handsome High Street with real shops, two ancient churches, a twice-weekly market, and enough independent cafes and pubs to reward a half-day stopover without feeling like a tourist trap.
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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
"Villagers claim ancient rights to gather wood, then process to Salisbury Cathedral to shout Grovely."
Grovely and Oak Apple Day
"A cliff-top open-air theatre carved from Cornish granite above Porthcurno Bay, where productions from Shakespeare to musicals run each summer with the Atlantic as backdrop and Rowena Cade's extraordinary creation as the stage."
Minack Theatre Season
"Young world-class singers and players perform vocal and chamber music in the ancient parish churches of the Dartmoor villages around Chagford, with free entry for the under-25s."
Whiddon Autumn Festival
"The world's oldest literary festival fills Cheltenham's Regency venues for ten October days with 500 events, from Booker Prize winners to children's authors, making it the essential autumn gathering for book lovers."
Cheltenham Literature Festival
"A small Exmoor town on the banks of the River Barle draws the likes of Michael Morpurgo and Patrick Gale for an intimate four-day celebration of reading."
Dulverton Exmoor Literary Festival
"A fortnight-long festival rooted in Purbeck since 2001, combining open studios across the Isle of Purbeck with world-class concerts, exhibitions at Rollington Barn and the National Trust's Corfe Castle visitor centre, and a dedicated young artists programme."
Purbeck Art Weeks Festival
"Six days of talks, debates, demonstrations and interactive events bringing together Nobel laureates, astronauts and leading scientists to Cheltenham Racecourse each June in the UK's premier science festival."
Cheltenham Science Festival