Nantwich Show and International Cheese Awards
The world's largest independent cheese competition, judging entries from over 50 countries, sits at the centre of the Nantwich Show's full day of livestock, rural crafts, food and family entertainment at Reaseheath College.
One of England's most intact medieval market towns, with 131 listed buildings, a three-day market, a clutch of CAMRA-listed pubs and a Grade I church at its heart - Nantwich rewards unhurried exploration.
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"Chester's Victorian park hosts a full summer season of theatre from late June through early September, with Shakespeare, new writing and family shows performed in an intimate outdoor setting a short walk from the city walls."
Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre
"A screen-free family festival of wild freedom and glittering wonder where woodland glades, campfires and circus turn a Cheshire estate into a storybook."
Just So Festival
"Seventy stalls of crafts and local produce take over the scenic centre of this canal-and-cross Cheshire village beside Lymm Cross."
Lymm Makers Market
"Black-and-white timbered Tudor streets light up as a festive market lines Churchyardside in this characterful Cheshire market town."
Nantwich Christmas Lights and Festive Market
"One of England's oldest surviving May Day pageants, dating from 1864, where the streets of Knutsford are decorated with coloured sand mottoes before a costumed procession crowns the May Queen on the Heath."
Knutsford Royal May Day
"On a Willaston school field every June, charmers coax worms to the surface with garden forks and music inside a marked plot, eighteen solemn rules and a world record over five hundred worms in half an hour."
World Worm Charming Championships
Villagly Award · Strangest Talent in the UK ✦ Weird and Wonderful"Food stalls and live music in the grounds of the longest country house facade in Europe, in the estate village of Wentworth."
Great British Food Festival, Wentworth Woodhouse
"The Victorian clifftop resort of Saltburn closes its main street to traffic and fills it with artisan food producers from across the North East for this September market, where the restored pier and the cliff tramway form an extraordinary backdrop to a genuinely local food event with no national chains in sight."
Saltburn Food Festival
"For ten September days, Parliament Street and the surrounding streets of historic York fill with over 150 food and drink producers, chef demonstrations, artisan markets, pop-up restaurants and tastings celebrating Yorkshire produce."
York Food and Drink Festival
"Cockermouth's flagship food and drink festival fills the market town where Wordsworth was born with Cumbrian produce, chef demonstrations, artisan stalls and live music each September."
Taste Cumbria Cockermouth
"Ten days of cheese trails, farm tastings, guided walks with cheesemakers and special menus spread across every village and dale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, celebrating the artisan producers behind Wensleydale, Swaledale and more."
Yorkshire Dales Cheese Festival
"East Holmes Field beside the River Wharfe hosts this seventh-year festival that draws artisan food and drink producers from across Yorkshire into the spa town at the foot of the moor, with cookery demonstrations, live music and the kind of local cheese and charcuterie lineup that needs two days to properly work through."
Ilkley Food and Drink Festival