Swallowfield Village Open Gardens
The Swallowfield Horticultural Society opens village and countryside gardens for a charity day, drawing nearly 400 visitors last year to this quietly lovely corner of Berkshire.
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"A free all-day village fete on Bray's village green, built by the community for the community, with live music, food, family games and village tradition in one of Berkshire's most picturesque Thames-side villages."
Bray Village Fete
"Two September days at the Berkshire county showground: livestock, rural crafts, local food and a show ring that has been drawing the county together for well over a century."
Newbury Show
"Pinder Hall in this beautiful Thames-side village fills with local artisan makers each late November, a genuinely community-scale market that supports the Maidenhead Baby Bank and puts carol singers on the street outside."
Cookham Christmas Market
"Each late winter, a privately owned Berkshire estate opens its 5-acre beech wood to reveal one of the UK's largest carpets of snowdrops alongside the River Lambourn, in a tradition running for over 50 years."
Welford Park Snowdrop Season
"Tutti-men carrying flower-topped poles call on every common-right house to collect a kiss and a coin."
Hungerford Hocktide and Tutti Day
"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
"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
"Set in the New Forest on the banks of the Beaulieu River, this Grade II* listed 200-acre woodland garden bursts each spring with the Rothschild collection of rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias, all accessible by a narrow-gauge steam railway."
Exbury Gardens Spring Season
"Flour is distributed to villagers on Lady Day under a medieval bequest said to carry a curse if ever stopped."
Tichborne Dole
"A heritage steam and vintage rally held across a beautiful private country estate near Liskeard, celebrating working engines and rural craft."
Boconnoc Steam Fair
"Three wells dressed with intricate flower-and-clay panels anchor a full week of events in this limestone gorge village each late July, including a fell race, model boat race, treasure hunt and brass band on the village green."
Stoney Middleton Well Dressing
"Three days at South Cerney Airfield bring together one of the largest gatherings of vintage vehicles, steam engines, working horses, buses and stationary engines in the South West, a complete world of working mechanical heritage set out across a former wartime airfield with the Cotswold Water Park shimmering beyond."
Gloucestershire Vintage and Country Extravaganza