Tavistock Goosey Fair
A charter fair famous in Devon song, filling the stannary town's streets with stalls and rides each October.
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"A traditional one-day show on the edge of Dartmoor with livestock, horticulture and terrier racing."
Chagford Show
"The Levellers' fiercely independent family festival runs six stages with no sponsorship, a Magic Teapot, folk sessions and a different fancy-dress theme every Sunday."
Beautiful Days
"A fair running since 1888 in honour of a farmer who baked an enormous apple pie from his windfall apples, still serving apple pie and cream alongside falconry and a novelty dog show."
Marldon Apple Pie Fair
"The Dartmoor fair of the Uncle Tom Cobley song, still run on the second Tuesday of September with sheep, ponies, bale tossing and a downhill race, in a village that wears its own folk legend lightly."
Widecombe Fair
"Young world-class singers and players perform vocal and chamber music in the ancient parish churches of the Dartmoor villages around Chagford, with free entry for the under-25s."
Whiddon Autumn Festival
"Devon's county ploughing championship brings competitors to Mid Devon farmland each autumn, where red soil and deep Devon banks create the conditions for what ploughmen here consider among the most technically demanding ploughing ground in England."
Devon County Ploughing Championship
"The prettiest village in Wiltshire opens its village hall for a handful of December market days, the kind of small, candlelit affair the postcard villages do best."
Castle Combe Christmas Market
"Bonnets, top hats and candlelight transform the timber framed National Trust village into a living Dickens novel for one twilit evening."
Dickensian Lacock
"The medieval village of Dunster, complete with castle and octagonal market house, transforms each December into a torch-lit winter festival with medieval re-enactment, a banquet, live music and a torchlit procession through the ancient streets."
Dunster Winter Festival
"Tetbury's beloved annual Christmas Fayre fills the streets around the historic Market House with craft and gift stalls, live music from the Silver Band, Santa's grotto, and a community lights switch-on at 6pm that draws the whole town together."
Tetbury Christmas Fayre and Market
"The most perfect high street in the Cotswolds hosts its Christmas market each early December, with honey-gold limestone buildings lit by torches, stalls that seem to belong to another century and the smell of mulled wine drifting past the fourteenth-century Market Hall."
Chipping Campden Christmas Market
"This Somerset village built around a turreted castle and a working octagonal Yarn Market fills its cobbled streets for a December market, where the medieval buildings and the Exmoor hills rising beyond provide a backdrop that would be impossible to fabricate."
Dunster Christmas Market