Royal Swan Upping

"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

"Fairport Convention host a vast folk-rock reunion in a field beside this Oxfordshire canal village each August."

Fairport's Cropredy Convention

"A small, inclusive festival that feels like a weekend-long party, with daily singarounds, sessions and workshops where everyone is invited to play a part."

White Horse Folk Festival

"Held on Blur bassist Alex James's Cotswolds farm over August Bank Holiday, this festival blends headline music acts with Michelin-starred chefs, street food producers and family activities in an idyllic rural setting."

The Big Feastival

"Specialist nurseries gather in the historic gardens of Adwell House beneath the Chiltern Hills for an autumn Rare Plant Fair, offering unusual and hard-to-find plants in an intimate estate setting."

Rare Plant Fair at Adwell House

"The handsome Oxfordshire market town of Thame fills its wide high street with artisan food and drink producers on the last weekend of September, a free festival that draws chefs for demonstrations and locals for the kind of independent food stalls that national food courts have been failing to replicate for thirty years."

Thame Food Festival

"One of the earliest events of the Sussex bonfire season sends costumed societies and burning torches through a pretty Wealden village high street."

Mayfield Bonfire

"This small Wealden village keeps the old Sussex tradition alive with a torchlit procession, costumed marchers and a village bonfire and fireworks."

Northiam Bonfire

"Six rival bonfire societies stage torch-lit processions, burning effigies, and fireworks through the streets of Lewes on the 5th in what is widely regarded as the UK's most spectacular and defiant Bonfire Night tradition."

Lewes Bonfire Celebrations

"Six rival bonfire societies fill the narrow streets with blazing torches, burning crosses and exploding effigies in the wildest Fifth of November spectacle in the world."

Lewes Bonfire Night Celebrations

"Visiting societies and burning torches process past the abbey where the Battle of Hastings was fought, ending with a roaring bonfire and fireworks."

Battle Bonfire

"This Kent town builds an eleven metre satirical effigy of a chosen public figure each year and blows it sky high with gunpowder and flame."

Edenbridge Bonfire