Newent Onion Fayre
A medieval-rooted fair with onion-eating contests and the heaviest onion competition in a Forest of Dean town.
A genuine, unfussed market town with a handsome timber-framed Market House at its heart, a Friday market still trading, and enough independent pubs and cafes to make a purposeful half-day without tipping into the theme-park Cotswolds.
Cottages, B&Bs and hotels near Newent, Gloucestershire.
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"Vintage biplanes drone overhead while hard driving bluegrass and old time pickers jam around a bonfire on one of the quirkiest festival fields in the country."
Didmarton Bluegrass Festival
"One of the biggest one-day shows in England, held in the Cotswolds on the first Saturday of September, Shetland Pony Grand National, champion cattle, and a showground that fills the whole town with its presence."
Moreton Show
"Traction engines, vintage vehicles and working machinery gather off the A436 near Bourton-on-the-Water for a two-day show in the Cotswold limestone uplands, the kind of event that draws real working-machinery enthusiasts rather than festival-goers and is better for it."
North Cotswold Steam and Vintage Show
"The most prestigious sheepdog event in the British Isles, held at the Daylesford Estate where the finest handlers from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales compete across three days for the International Supreme title."
International Sheepdog Championship
"Parishioners join hands to embrace their church among the famous 99 yews of this Cotswold wool village."
Painswick Clypping Ceremony
"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
"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
"A free four-day celebration of Cornish food and drink set around Padstow harbour, featuring chef demonstrations, an artisan Christmas market, a lantern parade, and a Friday-night fireworks display."
Padstow Christmas Fayre
"A weekend celebration of local food producers, street food, live music and art on the Dorset coast at Highcliffe, where artisan stalls, live cooking demonstrations and family entertainment fill the clifftop town each June."
Highcliffe Food and Arts Festival
"A weekend of street food, chef demos and artisan stalls in the parkland of a Palladian house on the edge of Swindon, part of the series Villagly already lists at Compton Verney."
Great British Food Festival, Lydiard Park
"A boutique music and food festival on the Camel Estuary in North Cornwall, where Michelin-starred chefs cook alongside headlining musicians on the banks of the estuary, with kayaking, wild swimming and oysters at the heart of the programme."
Rock Oyster Festival
"A weekend food festival set in the shadow of Corfe Castle's ruined Norman keep, with local producers, street food, live music and a family atmosphere in one of Dorset's most dramatic village settings."
Corfe Castle Food and Drink Festival