Sheringham 1940s Weekend
The whole town becomes the 1940s for a weekend, with 20,000 visitors in period dress, a vintage vehicle parade, wartime shop fronts and steam trains running the Poppy Line through to Holt.
A genuine working seaside town with a heritage steam railway, a proper twice-weekly market, stacked independent high street, Blue Flag beach, and enough pubs, cafes, and bakeries to fill a full day without trying.
Cottages, B&Bs and hotels near Sheringham, Norfolk.
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"A fortnight of concerts, masterclasses and ensemble music-making at Gresham's School in the Georgian market town of Holt, continuing the tradition of the renowned Dartington International Summer School in a Norfolk setting."
Music Summer School and Festival
"A full week of North Norfolk seaside pageantry crowned by the Red Arrows over the pier, a revived town-centre parade and a sandcastle competition that the whole family takes very seriously."
Cromer Carnival
"An international event (which means people from Sheringham and further afield take part) on Cromer Pier, where crabbers compete to catch the greatest number and the largest specimen in two hours, with all crabs returned to the sea to wait for next year."
World Pier Crabbing Championships
✦ Weird and Wonderful"A one-day Norfolk agricultural show at the end of August on the market town's own showground, quiet, well-organised and deeply Norfolk, in a county that does agricultural shows as well as anywhere."
Aylsham Show
"Sixty artisan producers fill the walled garden at Holkham Hall for a free September weekend market, now in its 17th year, with fresh game, bakes, chocolates, local ales and a cookery theatre in one of Norfolk's finest estate settings."
North Norfolk Food and Drink Festival
"More than 60 artisan food and drink producers from across North Norfolk gather in the spectacular Walled Garden of Holkham Hall for a two-day celebration of local produce, live cookery theatre, and street food."
North Norfolk Food Festival
"Each August Bank Holiday, the medieval church of St Peter ad Vincula in this Essex wool town is transformed into a themed spectacle of flowers that has dazzled visitors for over three decades."
Coggeshall Flower Festival
"For its 44th year around forty gardens open across the village with brass bands, Morris dancing and a free vintage bus to ferry weary visitors between cream teas."
Walsham le Willows Open Gardens
"A supersize village fete run by 400 volunteers fills the lanes with daffodils, a working blacksmith's forge, Morris dancers, heavy-horse dray rides and live music for a springtime charity celebration."
Thriplow Daffodil Weekend
"A dozen gardens centred on two village greens open their gates, including the listed serpentine Crinkle Crankle walled garden at Tostock Place, with homemade cakes in the churchyard tea tent."
Tostock Open Gardens
"In its 57th year and the first open gardens event of its kind in the country, around twenty gardens welcome visitors with a vintage tractor rally and Morris dancers winding through a timbered Brett valley village."
Chelsworth Open Gardens
"One of the last Derbyshire wells dressed entirely in the old way with no nails or glue, just clay boards pressed petal by petal, blessed with a service and kept up for five days."
Barlow Well Dressing