Tenterden Christmas Market
The wide High Street of this Wealden market town fills with over 100 stalls for ten days each November, coinciding with the Christmas tree lights switch-on and drawing visitors from across Kent for street food, artisan groceries and handmade crafts across three outdoor stages.
A well-stocked, good-looking Wealden market town with a heritage steam railway, a weekly Friday market, multiple pubs, a bakery, abundant cafes, a Waitrose, and a genuine food and drink culture rooted in English wine country - more substance than postcard prettiness.
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"A beloved volunteer-run community show at Holden Farm gathering up to 300 vintage and classic tractors alongside family entertainment, live music and rural crafts to raise funds for local causes."
Biddenden Tractorfest
"A Surrey and Kent border show that runs across August Bank Holiday weekend with genuine character: horses, cattle, show jumping, and the Weald at its most golden."
Edenbridge and Oxted Agricultural Show
"Set in the grounds of the historic Quex Park estate, this established two-day country show celebrates British countryside traditions with main-ring displays, crafts and family entertainment."
Kent Country Show
"Hop-picking made this Kentish market town. Every September the harvest reclaims the streets: real ale, folk dancing, a parade, stalls and the smell of hops in the air. Free to attend."
Faversham Hop Festival
"Whitstable's reborn oyster festival, in its 5th year, fills the Grading Shed, East Quay and Long Beach with the historic Oyster Landing Ceremony, live music, a mud tug-of-war, a samba procession and Marshall Jefferson on the Saturday night."
Whitstable Rocks Oyster Festival
"Horse and tractor ploughing judged furrow by furrow across a Kent stubble field, with a farmers market, gymkhana and the unhurried social weather of a working country day."
Weald of Kent Ploughing Match
"Sixty handpicked chalets fill the Great Court of Blenheim Palace for five weeks, with artisan gifts, seasonal food and drink and a Cinderella-themed illuminated light trail winding through the palace grounds after dark."
Blenheim Palace Christmas Market
"The narrow streets of this West Sussex market town host a makers Christmas market each late November in the shadow of Petworth House's vast estate wall, a properly artisan alternative to the big city versions with only locally produced gifts on offer."
Petworth Christmas Market
"The handsome market town at the gates of Blenheim Palace dresses its stone streets for a Victorian Christmas each late November, with costumed traders, a Santa parade and independent shops that have been taking Christmas seriously in this Oxfordshire town for longer than the great park next door has had public visitors."
Woodstock Victorian Christmas
"A multi-award-winning north Oxfordshire market where thirty stalls fill the Market Place and craft sellers spill into the church, even a Swedish cook in the mix."
Deddington Farmers' Market
"Around forty-five stalls of farmed goods and crafts gather on Ripley's beautiful village green, all run by volunteers who plough the profits back into local charities."
Ripley Farmers' Market
"Seventy stalls of crafts and local produce take over the scenic centre of this canal-and-cross Cheshire village beside Lymm Cross."
Lymm Makers Market