Tichborne Dole
Flour is distributed to villagers on Lady Day under a medieval bequest said to carry a curse if ever stopped.
A tiny hamlet of remarkable depth -- a Grade I Saxon-Norman church with a living Catholic chantry, a scatter of thatched listed cottages, and a Good Beer Guide pub make Tichborne worth a deliberate detour rather than a passing glance.
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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
"A one-day Hampshire show by the Test valley with livestock, heavy horses and a grand parade."
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
"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
"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."
Swallowfield Village Open Gardens
"One of the last Derbyshire wells dressed entirely in the old way with no nails or glue, just clay boards pressed petal by petal, blessed with a service and kept up for five days."
Barlow Well Dressing
"The market town at the heart of the Elan Valley turns its cattle market into a gathering of vintage tractors, steam engines and working machinery each August, a show that could only happen in a part of Wales where the landscape itself feels preserved from an earlier century."
Rhayader District Vintage Show
"Children in elaborate horse costumes parade, then boys plough miniature furrows in the sand at the Hope."
Boys' Ploughing Match and Festival of the Horse