Shrewsbury Folk Festival
Four stages of folk, world music and Americana plus a dance tent, craft fair and children's festival fill the showground of a medieval Shropshire market town.
Shrewsbury is a county town rather than a village, but its extraordinary density of timber-framed medieval streets, a Grade I castle, a three-time award-winning indoor market, and a thriving real-ale scene make it one of the most rewarding historic towns in the English Midlands.
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"A combined food and craft market held monthly on Ludlow's Castle Square, uniting independent food traders with local craft makers in one of England's finest market town settings."
Ludlow Food & Craft Market
"Rummage for vintage finds inside the historic Town Hall of one of England's smallest towns, with a veg stall tucked out front."
Bishop's Castle Antiques and Flea Market
"One of the oldest one-day country shows in the Welsh Marches, held annually on the Boyne estate beneath the Clee Hills and featuring livestock classes, equestrian events, local trade stands and traditional countryside pursuits."
Burwarton Show and Country Fair
"Shropshire's largest steam event, with over 1200 exhibits at Onslow Park including shire horses ploughing the working field, steam-powered cultivating, vintage tractor pulling and the famous Grand Parade set to nostalgia poetry."
Shrewsbury Steam Rally
"One of the original independent food festivals, set in the castle of this celebrated Marches food town."
Ludlow Food Festival
"A makers market, castle light trail and a young farmers tractor run kick off Christmas in one of England's finest medieval food towns."
Ludlow Winter Festival
"A well-loved Peak District village custom in the heart of the Hope Valley, where Bradwell's community gathers each August to display and bless its hand-crafted petal mosaics."
Bradwell Well Dressing
"A free and friendly folkie takeover of 13 atmospheric venues with Morris dancing, sing-arounds and an outdoor market stage across the old market town."
Melton Folk Festival
"For one Sunday the whole village of Leadenham fills with unpaid musicians, dancers and storytellers performing across indoor and outdoor stages purely as a labour of love."
Day of Lincolnshire Folk
"One of the highest-altitude well dressings in Derbyshire, Taddington's boards are dressed and displayed in a windswept limestone plateau village above the Wye Valley."
Taddington Well Dressing
"Where exceptional arts, courageous activism and open-hearted belief meet in a stately home's parkland, holding its final festival at Boughton before moving home."
Greenbelt
"Five thousand people explore old cabins, dilapidated buildings and woodland in a forgotten Lincolnshire village over August Bank Holiday, soundtracked by international house, techno and electronica with fire-cooked banquets in the forest."
Lost Village Festival