Yarmouth Christmas Craft Market
The small harbour town of Yarmouth transforms its quayside into an evening market run by Island artisans, with carols in the square as the light drops over the Solent and the ferry lights move slowly past in the dark.
A genuinely historic small harbour town whose Tudor castle, Grade II* Georgian hotel, listed pier and Solent views deliver more architectural substance than the compact street plan suggests, enlivened in season by the ferry trade and sailing crowd.
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"The Island's largest horticultural show at Chale Recreation Ground draws over 1,500 entries and thousands of visitors to a village on the wild south coast of the Isle of Wight, with OG Performance Horses in the main arena."
Chale Show
"The Isle of Wight's capital transforms for its annual summer carnival, with the illuminated procession on 20 August filling the town centre with floats, music and light."
Newport Carnival
"Since 1983 the Island's biggest summer show at Fighting Cocks Crossroads near Newchurch has celebrated garlic grown on the Isle of Wight, with star chefs, live music and a Garlic Queen."
Isle of Wight Garlic Festival
"A full week of summer fun in the tiniest town on the Isle of Wight: river sports, boat racing, sandcastle competitions, treasure hunts, a dog show and a grand procession through Yarmouth's medieval streets."
Yarmouth Carnival Week
"A three-day seaside spectacle in the tiny village of Seaview complete with a greasy pole over the sea, tug of war, swimming races, diving and a fireworks display over the Solent."
Seaview Village Regatta
✦ Weird and Wonderful"One of the oldest carnivals in the UK dating to 1888, Ryde's illuminated procession closes the Island's summer carnival season with a spectacular parade of floats, marching bands and samba groups."
Ryde Carnival
"Gateway Square on the last Saturday of the month. New Forest produce, familiar faces, and no particular reason to rush home."
Ringwood Farmers Market
"A market under the Hartley Wintney oaks on the last Sunday of the month, Hampshire smallholders and bakers in a famously leafy village on the old coaching road."
Hartley Wintney Farmers' Market
"The Cathedral city's market, twice monthly. A Sunday morning with the High Street, the close, and nowhere better to be."
Winchester Market
"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
"Pinder Hall in this beautiful Thames-side village fills with local artisan makers each late November, a genuinely community-scale market that supports the Maidenhead Baby Bank and puts carol singers on the street outside."
Cookham Christmas Market