Wirksworth Farmers' Market
First Saturday of the month on the Memorial Gardens, with local produce, music and the steep stone streets of a former lead mining town climbing away on every side.
A genuinely characterful Derbyshire market town with an independent spirit, a working Tuesday market, a heritage railway, strong pub and cafe offer, and a creative arts scene that punches well above its modest size.
Cottages, B&Bs and hotels near Wirksworth, Derbyshire.
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"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
"An annual one-day agricultural show in the southern Peak District gateway town of Ashbourne, celebrating local livestock, rural skills and Derbyshire farming heritage."
Ashbourne Show
"A full week of Derbyshire village carnival life with well dressings, a flower festival, a scarecrow competition and then the spectacular Saturday parade of floats, fancy dress and Carnival Royalty through the village, followed by classic cars, alpacas and children's entertainment on the recreation ground."
Barlow Carnival
"The plague village dresses its wells in late August, the same clay and petal craft as its neighbours, in a place that carries more history per cottage than almost anywhere in England."
Eyam Well Dressing
"One of the highest-altitude well dressings in Derbyshire, Taddington's boards are dressed and displayed in a windswept limestone plateau village above the Wye Valley."
Taddington Well Dressing
"One of Derbyshire's most tranquil well dressings appears in this small hamlet near Miller's Dale each August, where the petal-and-clay panel stands in one of the quietest and most beautiful corners of the White Peak."
Wormhill Well Dressing
"A charter sheep fair held every October since 1238 in this south Lincolnshire village."
Corby Glen Sheep Fair
"One of England's finest stone towns fills its streets with stalls for its Christmas market each November, where Georgian and limestone architecture provides a festive backdrop that has been drawing visitors and film crews to Stamford for generations."
Stamford Christmas Market
"England's smallest county town fills its compact market square and the surrounding lanes with stalls each November, a Christmas market in a place most of England has never found that rewards those who do with independent shops and a genuinely unspoiled market town atmosphere."
Uppingham Christmas Market
"On two consecutive Fridays in late November and early December, Broadway's honey-stone High Street stays open until 8.30pm with Christmas lights, live music, mulled wine, street entertainers, and pony sleigh rides drawing festive crowds to the village."
Broadway Late Night Christmas Shopping
"Rummage for vintage finds inside the historic Town Hall of one of England's smallest towns, with a veg stall tucked out front."
Bishop's Castle Antiques and Flea Market
"Fifty-plus stalls of crafts and provisions spill across the Village Green while young local entrepreneurs hawk their wares and buskers play."
Ruddington Village Market