Minack Theatre Season
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.
Porthcurno is not a village you visit for its amenities - the local shop closed in 2012, there is no pub in the cove itself, no station, and no bakery - but it earns its destination status through an extraordinary combination of a National Trust and AONB-protected coastline, a world-famous clifftop theatre, and a multiple award-winning telegraph museum that together make it one of the most culturally and scenically rich small settlements in Cornwall.
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"A sailing regatta with roots going back to 1837, combining competitive racing on the water with a Marching Carnival, live music, and a Pink Wig Parade ashore."
Falmouth Week
"The biggest steam engine rally in Cornwall brings around 70 full-size engines to Stithians Showground for three August days of steam trailer rides, threshing, wood sawing, stone crushing and a Saturday evening sheaf-pitching competition."
West of England Steam Engine Society Rally
"One of Cornwall's largest inland town carnivals, with an illuminated evening procession through the historic streets of Bodmin each August."
Bodmin Carnival
"A colourful summer carnival parade through the surf town of Bude, one of the highlights of the north Cornwall seaside summer calendar."
Bude Carnival
"A charming village carnival in the wooded Helford valley community of Constantine, keeping alive a cherished local summer tradition."
Constantine Carnival
"A packed week of boat racing, carnival processions, a Giant Pasty Ceremony, fireworks, and live music on the quayside of this beloved south Cornwall estuary town."
Fowey Royal Regatta and Carnival
"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
"The UK's largest palaeontology festival spreads talks, palaeoart workshops and hands-on science across a Jurassic Coast town where Mary Anning once hunted fossils."
Lyme Regis Fossil Festival