Petworth Christmas Market
The narrow streets of this West Sussex market town host a makers Christmas market each late November in the shadow of Petworth House's vast estate wall, a properly artisan alternative to the big city versions with only locally produced gifts on offer.
A genuinely rewarding small town that punches far above its 3,000-person size with a National Trust showpiece, a Michelin-listed restaurant, an artisan bakery, over 30 antique dealers, a monthly farmers market, and a cultural festival calendar that would suit a city.
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"Sixteen days of classical music, jazz and spoken word in the churches, halls and historic spaces of a handsome Sussex market town. Sheku Kanneh-Mason among the 2026 headliners."
Petworth Summer Festival
"The Findon Village Gardens Association fills the hall with prize blooms, vegetables, baking and handicrafts in a friendly South Downs show that has been a fixture of village life for decades."
Findon Village Summer Flower Show
"Ten August days and over 200 events transform this castle town into a celebration of music, drama, street art and bathtub racing, with Shakespeare performed in the Arundel Castle gardens each evening as the sun goes down."
Arundel Festival
"The Goodwood motor circuit returns to its 1948 specification each September for a three-day historic racing meeting where spectators and competitors alike wear period dress, the paddock smells of Castrol R, and ERA and pre-war Bentley machinery is raced in anger as though the last seventy years had not happened."
Goodwood Revival
"A South Downs village fair that has been trading sheep since the 12th century, still entirely about the sheep, still held on the village green, and still rather pleased with itself about both."
Findon Sheep Fair
"Over 110,000 tulips in 120 varieties bloom across the 38-acre grounds of a medieval ducal castle, creating one of the largest spring bulb displays in Europe."
Arundel Castle Tulip Festival
"A multi-award-winning north Oxfordshire market where thirty stalls fill the Market Place and craft sellers spill into the church, even a Swedish cook in the mix."
Deddington Farmers' Market
"Sixty handpicked chalets fill the Great Court of Blenheim Palace for five weeks, with artisan gifts, seasonal food and drink and a Cinderella-themed illuminated light trail winding through the palace grounds after dark."
Blenheim Palace Christmas Market
"The wide High Street of this Wealden market town fills with over 100 stalls for ten days each November, coinciding with the Christmas tree lights switch-on and drawing visitors from across Kent for street food, artisan groceries and handmade crafts across three outdoor stages."
Tenterden Christmas Market
"The handsome market town at the gates of Blenheim Palace dresses its stone streets for a Victorian Christmas each late November, with costumed traders, a Santa parade and independent shops that have been taking Christmas seriously in this Oxfordshire town for longer than the great park next door has had public visitors."
Woodstock Victorian Christmas
"Around forty-five stalls of farmed goods and crafts gather on Ripley's beautiful village green, all run by volunteers who plough the profits back into local charities."
Ripley Farmers' Market
"On the last Saturday of the month the Agricultural Business Centre fills with Peak District producers, in the town that gave its name to the pudding."
Bakewell Farmers' Market