Ruddington Village Market
Fifty-plus stalls of crafts and provisions spill across the Village Green while young local entrepreneurs hawk their wares and buskers play.
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"The 40th anniversary edition fills Sherwood Forest with jousting tournaments, medieval encampments, archery demonstrations and arena performances across three weekends in August, drawing tens of thousands into the ancient Nottinghamshire woodland."
Robin Hood Festival
"Wellow is Nottinghamshire's only permanent maypole village, and each Late Spring Bank Holiday Monday its 17-metre painted maypole becomes the centrepiece for the crowning of a May Queen chosen by secret village ballot, maypole dancing with red, white and blue ribbons, and a free open-air celebration on the village green."
Wellow Maypole Celebrations
"A multi-generational village green celebration centred on a 17-metre permanent maypole, with crowning of the May Queen, children's ribbon dances practiced over two months, swing boats, and stalls."
Wellow Maypole Day
"A brilliantly curated lakeside roots gathering that punches far above its size, with three covered stages and a famously warm welcome in the Nottinghamshire fields."
Gate to Southwell Festival
"A charter sheep fair held every October since 1238 in this south Lincolnshire village."
Corby Glen Sheep Fair
"More than 100 craft and food stalls fill the Great Court of Chatsworth House for five weeks each winter, set against one of England's grandest country houses with the Peak District as backdrop and the illuminated light trail running after dark."
Chatsworth Christmas Market
"One of England's finest stone towns fills its streets with stalls for its Christmas market each November, where Georgian and limestone architecture provides a festive backdrop that has been drawing visitors and film crews to Stamford for generations."
Stamford Christmas Market
"England's smallest county town fills its compact market square and the surrounding lanes with stalls each November, a Christmas market in a place most of England has never found that rewards those who do with independent shops and a genuinely unspoiled market town atmosphere."
Uppingham Christmas Market
"On two consecutive Fridays in late November and early December, Broadway's honey-stone High Street stays open until 8.30pm with Christmas lights, live music, mulled wine, street entertainers, and pony sleigh rides drawing festive crowds to the village."
Broadway Late Night Christmas Shopping
"This steep, stone-built Peak District town strings up its lights, gathers carol singers and even brings alpacas to its farmers and craft market."
Wirksworth Christmas Weekend