Usk Open Gardens
Around 15 to 20 private gardens open in a small Welsh market town draped in floral displays, with a plant market and picnic spots beside the River Usk.
A handsome Old Red Sandstone market town that punches well above its size: a twelfth-century priory church, Norman castle ruins, a remarkable bloom record, and enough independent pubs, cafes and shops to keep a visitor well fed and occupied for a morning or afternoon.
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"A one day celebration of Wye Valley rural life with ferret racing, falconry and a bustling Home and Garden marquee across 96 acres."
Monmouthshire Show
"Running every year since 1844, this is one of the biggest one day shows in Britain with steam corner, a companion dog show and freestyle motocross."
Usk Show
"The food festival that started the whole British movement, filling a Monmouthshire market town under the Sugar Loaf with Welsh lamb, farmhouse cheese and orchard cider every September."
Abergavenny Food Festival
"Ploughmen from across Monmouthshire turn up to a rotating farm venue each October for their county match, a competition held in the border country between Wales and England where the hedged fields and red Hereford cattle still look much as they always have."
Monmouthshire Ploughing Match
"The magnificent Victorian Market Hall of this Welsh market town at the foot of the Brecon Beacons hosts its Christmas markets on late Sundays in November and December, offering local crafts and food in one of the grandest working market buildings in Wales."
Abergavenny Christmas Market
"Hosted by Widders Border Morris on the ancient border between England and Wales, this January gathering weaves together West Country apple wassailing, the Welsh Mari Lwyd hobby-horse tradition, Morris dancing, mumming, and a ceilidh into a single boisterous riverside procession through Chepstow town centre."
Chepstow Wassail and Mari Lwyd
"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
"A free three-day town-wide immersion in wartime Britain with a real Spitfire, tanks, military vehicles, re-enactors in period dress, swing bands, a blitz ball and the Longest Yarn exhibition bringing the whole of Welshpool back to the 1940s."
Welshpool 1940s Weekend
"A torchlit New Year's Eve procession follows a decorated horse's skull on a pole around town, trading sung Welsh challenges for entry and refreshment."
Mari Lwyd Walk
✦ Weird and Wonderful"Two acres of snowdrops carpet the ancient Pleasure Ground Wood at a 700-year-old Marches castle each February, with optional guided tours led by the former head gardener."
Chirk Castle Snowdrops
"For one July weekend the narrow-gauge railway threading the Mid Wales hills runs its original 1902 locomotive on a mixed train of replica Pickering carriages and goods wagons, alongside Austrian balcony carriages acquired from the Alps in the early days of preservation, recreating scenes from two entirely different railway traditions on the same track."
Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway Vintage Weekend
"A heritage steam and vintage rally held across a beautiful private country estate near Liskeard, celebrating working engines and rural craft."
Boconnoc Steam Fair