The Frome Independent
A curated destination street market closing the streets of this creative Somerset town for contemporary designers, makers, vintage and street food.
Frome punches well above its weight as a Somerset market town, with a thriving independent food scene, nationally recognised monthly markets, a working railway station and a civic energy that has earned it repeated national best-place-to-live recognition.
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"Over 160 years old and still the only one-day agricultural show in the South West with free pedestrian entry, bringing livestock, cheese tasting, craft stalls, Somerset cider and horticultural classes to one showground."
Mid-Somerset Show
"A week of music, dance and song for adults of all abilities at England's national centre for folk arts, tucked into a manor in the Quantock Hills."
Halsway Folk Summer School
"A traditional illuminated village carnival parade winding through the ancient coastal settlement of Porlock on the edge of Exmoor."
Porlock Carnival
"Somerset in September: a town that has been judging cheese since 1876, Cheddar at its finest, Caerphilly from the Welsh end of things, and a show ring that still takes its goats as seriously as anything."
Frome Cheese Show
"A long-running Somerset village carnival bringing illuminated floats and community procession to the streets of South Petherton each autumn."
South Petherton Carnival
"One of Somerset's most distinctive named carnivals, the Axbridge Blackberry Carnival celebrates the season with a procession through this handsome medieval market town."
Axbridge Blackberry Carnival
"A charter fair famous in Devon song, filling the stannary town's streets with stalls and rides each October."
Tavistock Goosey Fair
"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
"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
"Now in its third decade, every stall on the Quay is run by the Devon grower or cook who made the produce, rain, shine, snow or wind."
Kingsbridge Farmers' Market