"Top of the Pups dog show, hog roast, cream teas, and a licensed bar on the grounds of a Cotswolds manor. The afternoon is the point."
Cowley Village Fete
"A harbour town that comes properly alive in midsummer, stalls on the quayside, live music, and the smell of the sea all day."
Emsworth Summer Festival
"For nine days every August this Wharfedale village fills its gardens, walls and doorways with handmade scarecrows, and half the fun is the treasure hunt of finding them all."
Kettlewell Scarecrow Festival
✦ Weird & Wonderful"Ireland's oldest fair fills a Causeway Coast town for two late August days of horse trading and market stalls, and two things you eat nowhere else, dulse seaweed and the hard toffee called yellowman."
Auld Lammas Fair
"The Dartmoor fair of the Uncle Tom Cobley song, still run on the second Tuesday of September with sheep, ponies, bale tossing and a downhill race, in a village that wears its own folk legend lightly."
Widecombe Fair
"A horse fair and street festival dating to a 17th century charter, the last surviving May fair in Ireland."
Ballyclare May Fair
"A Lune valley village fills its lanes with themed scarecrows for two weeks, ending in a fair on the green."
Wray Scarecrow Festival
"A street fair dating to a 13th century charter, once a pony fair, now stalls and rides through the Devon town."
Bampton Charter Fair
"A week of galas, the famous Galway hooker boat races and street fun where Strangford Lough meets the sea."
Portaferry Gala