Ottery St Mary Carnival
The illuminated carnival procession through Ottery St Mary three weeks before Tar Barrel Night, with floats, fancy dress and the whole town building momentum toward its most extraordinary annual tradition.
A genuinely characterful East Devon market town with real pubs, a farmers market, a working bakery, and one of the finest medieval parish churches in the county - animated further by the famous November tar barrel run and a civic community that is actively keeping its high street alive.
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