South Downs Food Festival
A walled park, 100+ local producers, and an afternoon that has a habit of turning into a very good evening.
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"One of Hampshire's finest one-day agricultural shows at Tichborne Park since 1908, with prize livestock, horse competitions, vintage machinery, local food and a full countryside celebration."
Alresford Show
"The grounds of the National Motor Museum in the New Forest become the largest outdoor sale of motoring items in Europe each September, where thousands of traders spread automobiliana, spares, tools and historic vehicles across the fields of Beaulieu estate in a weekend that the motoring world plans its diary around."
Beaulieu International Autojumble
"A one-day Hampshire show by the Test valley with livestock, heavy horses and a grand parade."
Romsey Show
"Whitewool Farm at East Meon, tucked in the chalk valley below Old Winchester Hill in the South Downs, hosts the Petersfield district ploughing match each autumn where the downland light and the long views south give ploughing competition a backdrop rarely matched in southern England."
Petersfield District Ploughing Match
"A warm Hampshire village evening of handbell ringers, mulled wine and local small businesses opening in the parish hall on a late November Thursday, the kind of Christmas market that has never tried to be anything other than itself."
Ropley Christmas Market
"The de Rothschild gardens in the New Forest open their gates for two festive weekends with more than 75 local producers, a Father Christmas in a steam railway carriage and an illuminated night train through the woodland after dark."
Exbury Christmas Fair
"Since 1983 the Island's biggest summer show at Fighting Cocks Crossroads near Newchurch has celebrated garlic grown on the Isle of Wight, with star chefs, live music and a Garlic Queen."
Isle of Wight Garlic Festival
"Dinton Pastures Country Park on the edge of Wokingham hosts the Berkshire edition of the Great British Food Festival, a weekend of artisan producers, street food, chef demonstrations and local drink that brings the best of Thames Valley food to a green country park setting."
Great British Food Festival Berkshire
"Coracle racing on the Teifi and a quayside food market in this old Ceredigion port town."
Cardigan River and Food Festival
"Food stalls and live music in the grounds of the longest country house facade in Europe, in the estate village of Wentworth."
Great British Food Festival, Wentworth Woodhouse
"A leisurely ride through mid-Wales hills where every checkpoint hands you cider and perry, capped by a BBQ and free live music in town."
Summer Cider Cycle
✦ Weird and Wonderful"The elegant Georgian village of Hillsborough in County Down hosts its oyster festival each August, where Carlingford and Strangford Lough oysters are opened in competition for a world title and served with champagne in the village square while chef demonstrations and live music fill the streets of one of Northern Ireland's prettiest villages."
Hillsborough International Oyster Festival