The Grange Festival
Three operas including La Boheme, Eugene Onegin and Handel's Giulio Cesare are performed across 26 summer nights in the neo-classical Grange at Northington, a Hampshire country house of exceptional theatrical beauty.
Northington is a tiny, almost entirely residential farming hamlet whose one reason to make a journey is The Woolpack Inn and its AA-rosette kitchen, set against the extraordinary backdrop of The Grange, England's finest Greek Revival ruin and a genuine piece of national heritage.
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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
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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
"For ten July days, Ventnor's clifftop streets, caves, gardens and secret spaces become venues for over 130 shows spanning circus, comedy, cabaret and family theatre in the Isle of Wight's multi-award winning arts festival."
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"A cliff-top open-air theatre carved from Cornish granite above Porthcurno Bay, where productions from Shakespeare to musicals run each summer with the Atlantic as backdrop and Rowena Cade's extraordinary creation as the stage."
Minack Theatre Season
"Chester's Victorian park hosts a full summer season of theatre from late June through early September, with Shakespeare, new writing and family shows performed in an intimate outdoor setting a short walk from the city walls."
Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre
"A fortnight of concerts, masterclasses and ensemble music-making at Gresham's School in the Georgian market town of Holt, continuing the tradition of the renowned Dartington International Summer School in a Norfolk setting."
Music Summer School and Festival
"The 40th anniversary edition fills Sherwood Forest with jousting tournaments, medieval encampments, archery demonstrations and arena performances across three weekends in August, drawing tens of thousands into the ancient Nottinghamshire woodland."
Robin Hood Festival
"Ten August days and over 200 events transform this castle town into a celebration of music, drama, street art and bathtub racing, with Shakespeare performed in the Arundel Castle gardens each evening as the sun goes down."
Arundel Festival