"A village hall beer festival on the Broads beside the Humpty Dumpty Brewery, reached if you like by the last working chain ferry on the river."
Reedham Beer Festival
"A boutique music and food festival on the Camel Estuary in North Cornwall, where Michelin-starred chefs cook alongside headlining musicians on the banks of the estuary, with kayaking, wild swimming and oysters at the heart of the programme."
Rock Oyster Festival
"Dunoon's inaugural food festival in Castle Gardens celebrates Argyll produce with Scotland's National Chef Gary Maclean headlining, artisan cheeses, fresh seafood, rhubarb soft drinks and frozen margaritas from producers across the Firth of Clyde."
Taste Dunoon Food and Drink Festival
"The world's largest independent cheese competition, judging entries from over 50 countries, sits at the centre of the Nantwich Show's full day of livestock, rural crafts, food and family entertainment at Reaseheath College."
Nantwich Show and International Cheese Awards
"A weekend of street food, chef demos and artisan stalls in the parkland of a Palladian house on the edge of Swindon, part of the series Villagly already lists at Compton Verney."
Great British Food Festival, Lydiard Park
"Over 100 food and drink exhibitors fill Parc yr Odyn in Pentraeth each August Bank Holiday weekend, celebrating the exceptional produce of Anglesey and North Wales in a setting looking across the Menai Strait to the mountains of Snowdonia."
Menai Food Festival
"A coastal food celebration on the Durham seafront featuring street food, cookery classes, live music, TV chefs, and locally sourced produce from across the North East."
Seaham Food Festival
"On the first Sunday of August the entire high street of one of England's smallest market towns closes to traffic as local food and craft traders take over Stockbridge's famous single street."
Stockbridge Trout n About
"West Cumbria's biggest food weekend takes over Maryport's waterfront with a producers' market, fresh seafood stalls, chef demos with nationally known names, sea shanties and free live music across two harbourside stages."
Taste Cumbria Maryport
"Coracle racing on the Teifi and a quayside food market in this old Ceredigion port town."
Cardigan River and Food Festival
"Food stalls and live music in the grounds of the longest country house facade in Europe, in the estate village of Wentworth."
Great British Food Festival, Wentworth Woodhouse
"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 leisurely ride through mid-Wales hills where every checkpoint hands you cider and perry, capped by a BBQ and free live music in town."
Summer Cider Cycle
✦ Weird & Wonderful"Held on Blur bassist Alex James's Cotswolds farm over August Bank Holiday, this festival blends headline music acts with Michelin-starred chefs, street food producers and family activities in an idyllic rural setting."
The Big Feastival
"The town famous for its sea salt fills the quayside with street food from around the world, craft beer, artisan cheese, cider and gin bars over August Bank Holiday weekend."
Maldon Food and Drink Festival
"The medieval market town of Bury St Edmunds fills its Abbey Gardens and town centre with artisan food and drink producers each August Bank Holiday, a free festival that celebrates Suffolk's extraordinary larder of provender from the Breckland and the farmland of west Suffolk."
Bury St Edmunds Food and Drink Festival
"Over 50 events across four days in the Orchard County of Northern Ireland, where the apple orchards are heavy with cider fruit and the programme runs from orchard tours and artisan markets to 5-star open-fire dining under the trees."
Armagh Food and Cider Weekend
"A riverside marquee at Croft Farm fills with West Country ciders and perries for a weekend of tasting beneath the slopes of Bredon Hill."
Bredon Cider Festival
"The market town of Devizes at the heart of the Wiltshire countryside holds its food festival in and around the ancient market place each September, celebrating the county's dairy, game, beer and artisan produce in a town whose canal, castle and brewery make it one of the most characterful places to eat well in the south of England."
Devizes Food Festival
"The elegant Georgian village of Hillsborough in County Down hosts its oyster festival each September, where Carlingford and Strangford Lough oysters are opened in competition for a world title and served with champagne in the village square while chef demonstrations and live music fill the streets of one of Northern Ireland's prettiest villages."
Hillsborough International Oyster Festival
"The 12th annual festival fills Newtown's Town Hall Grounds with over 60 local and international food producers, chef demonstrations, live music across genres and a dedicated children's village in the heart of Mid Wales."
Newtown Food Festival
"Sixty artisan producers fill the walled garden at Holkham Hall for a free September weekend market, now in its 17th year, with fresh game, bakes, chocolates, local ales and a cookery theatre in one of Norfolk's finest estate settings."
North Norfolk Food and Drink Festival
"More than 60 artisan food and drink producers from across North Norfolk gather in the spectacular Walled Garden of Holkham Hall for a two-day celebration of local produce, live cookery theatre, and street food."
North Norfolk Food Festival
"Anglesey producers gather in the shadow of the medieval castle on the Menai Strait."
Beaumaris Food Festival
"Five days of real ale among the steam engines and the great brick viaduct at the East Anglian Railway Museum, the village beer festival that comes with platforms."
Chappel Beer Festival
"One of the original independent food festivals, set in the castle of this celebrated Marches food town."
Ludlow Food Festival
"A celebration of Scotland's last remaining wild and native oyster bed in Loch Ryan, with celebrity chef demos, the Scottish Oyster Shucking Championships, live music and a vast oyster bar on Stranraer Harbour."
Stranraer Oyster Festival
"Whitstable's reborn oyster festival, in its 5th year, fills the Grading Shed, East Quay and Long Beach with the historic Oyster Landing Ceremony, live music, a mud tug-of-war, a samba procession and Marshall Jefferson on the Saturday night."
Whitstable Rocks Oyster Festival
"The Victorian clifftop resort of Saltburn closes its main street to traffic and fills it with artisan food producers from across the North East for this September market, where the restored pier and the cliff tramway form an extraordinary backdrop to a genuinely local food event with no national chains in sight."
Saltburn Food Festival
"A medieval-rooted fair with onion-eating contests and the heaviest onion competition in a Forest of Dean town."
Newent Onion Fayre
"Four days of Aberdeenshire artisan food producers, local folk musicians and community spirit in a Royal Deeside village, where the September apple harvest season and the warmth of a rural Scottish gathering make for an unusually nourishing weekend."
Tarland Food and Music Festival
"For ten September days, Parliament Street and the surrounding streets of historic York fill with over 150 food and drink producers, chef demonstrations, artisan markets, pop-up restaurants and tastings celebrating Yorkshire produce."
York Food and Drink Festival
"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
"Hardwick Hall's magnificent Elizabethan estate in north Derbyshire provides the setting for this artisan food and drink festival, where producers from across the Midlands set up in the shadow of one of the most celebrated great houses in England on a weekend when the park is at its September best."
Hardwick Hall Artisan Food Festival
"Flintshire's market town throws a 20th anniversary feast of cookery theatre, live music and the best of north Wales producers."
Mold Food and Drink Festival
"Suffolk producers gather at Snape Maltings by the river for two days of tastings and demonstrations."
Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival
"The Three Counties Showground at the foot of the Malvern Hills hosts its annual autumn show each late September, combining fine food and drink producers from the Welsh Marches with garden produce, livestock and countryside crafts in one of the best-attended autumn shows in the Midlands."
Malvern Autumn Show
"One of the longest established and friendliest food festivals in Wales, spread beside the Town Moor with chefs, stalls and local bands."
Narberth Food Festival
"Cockermouth's flagship food and drink festival fills the market town where Wordsworth was born with Cumbrian produce, chef demonstrations, artisan stalls and live music each September."
Taste Cumbria Cockermouth
"The handsome Oxfordshire market town of Thame fills its wide high street with artisan food and drink producers on the last weekend of September, a free festival that draws chefs for demonstrations and locals for the kind of independent food stalls that national food courts have been failing to replicate for thirty years."
Thame Food Festival
"Norfolk's Rural Capital of Food celebrates its Cittaslow status each October with a weekend market, a Big Slow Brunch and a festival dinner that showcases the county's finest local producers."
Aylsham Food Festival
"Kent's largest free-to-enter food festival takes over the clifftop town of Broadstairs each early October, bringing together the county's cheese, hop, apple and sea-caught fish producers in a harbour town that smells of the sea and autumn simultaneously and where Charles Dickens once came to think."
Broadstairs Food Festival
"An autumn celebration of heritage and unusual apple varieties held in the beautiful walled gardens at Waterperry, featuring specialist nurseries, tastings and seasonal planting advice."
Apple Weekend at Waterperry Gardens
"This market-town celebration brings apple pressing, cider tastings and orchard stalls to the streets above the River Wye as part of Herefordshire's apple fortnight."
Ross-on-Wye AppleFest
"More than three hundred varieties of apple are laid out for tasting alongside local ciders pressed from the orchards of three neighbouring counties."
Tenbury Applefest
"Ten days of cheese trails, farm tastings, guided walks with cheesemakers and special menus spread across every village and dale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, celebrating the artisan producers behind Wensleydale, Swaledale and more."
Yorkshire Dales Cheese Festival
"Across hidden farms, cider barns and manor gardens around the Marcle Ridge you can watch perry pears being pressed and taste makers' wares straight from the cask."
Big Apple Harvestime
"The self styled Rural Capital of Food throws its October festival around the pork pie and the Stilton, with one of the largest gatherings of artisan cheesemakers in the country."
Melton Mowbray Food Festival
"A ten-day celebration of real ale centred on the Neuadd Arms Hotel in Britain's smallest town, anchored by the Real Ale Wobble cycle ride and the Real Ale Ramble walking event across the Mid Wales hills."
Mid Wales Beer Festival
"A waymarked mountain bike ride where beer tokens buy you locally brewed real ale at the finish, followed by a beer while your bike gets washed."
Real Ale Wobble
✦ Weird & Wonderful"A walk through unspoilt countryside with the organisers' own free beer stops at each checkpoint, run alongside the town's 10-day beer festival."
Real Ale Ramble
✦ Weird & Wonderful"A makers market, castle light trail and a young farmers tractor run kick off Christmas in one of England's finest medieval food towns."
Ludlow Winter Festival
"A free four-day celebration of Cornish food and drink set around Padstow harbour, featuring chef demonstrations, an artisan Christmas market, a lantern parade, and a Friday-night fireworks display."
Padstow Christmas Fayre
"Browse 120 Welsh artisan stalls and sip mulled cider amid the Italianate domes and pastel facades of Clough Williams-Ellis's fantasy village."
Portmeirion Christmas Fair
"Each January, Wales's smallest town dresses in togas to race mountain bike chariots around Abernant Lake and toast the Roman winter god Saturn with Welsh real ales at the Neuadd Arms."
Saturnalia Beer Festival
"The Vale of Evesham marks its asparagus season with an auction at the Fleece Inn and the Gus the asparagus man parade."
British Asparagus Festival
"A Hertfordshire market town's CAMRA festival at the Rugby Club: three days, dozens of ales and ciders, and a town that always seemed like it ought to have a good beer festival."
Hitchin Beer and Cider Festival
"The 18th running in Shakespeare's town: real ales and ciders across two days in a setting that already draws visitors for far less interesting reasons than this."
Stratford-upon-Avon Beer and Cider Festival
"Dinton Pastures Country Park on the edge of Wokingham hosts the Berkshire edition of the Great British Food Festival, a weekend of artisan producers, street food, chef demonstrations and local drink that brings the best of Thames Valley food to a green country park setting."
Great British Food Festival Berkshire
"A walled park, 100+ local producers, and an afternoon that has a habit of turning into a very good evening."
South Downs Food Festival
"A beloved coastal Norfolk pub transforms into a three-day celebration of real ales, live music and charitable giving on the edge of the North Norfolk saltmarshes."
Jolly Sailors Annual Ale and Music Festival
"A weekend celebration of local food producers, street food, live music and art on the Dorset coast at Highcliffe, where artisan stalls, live cooking demonstrations and family entertainment fill the clifftop town each June."
Highcliffe Food and Arts Festival
"East Holmes Field beside the River Wharfe hosts this seventh-year festival that draws artisan food and drink producers from across Yorkshire into the spa town at the foot of the moor, with cookery demonstrations, live music and the kind of local cheese and charcuterie lineup that needs two days to properly work through."
Ilkley Food and Drink Festival
"Over 100 local food and drink producers and street food traders gather in the grounds of Kentwell Hall in one of Suffolk's finest wool villages for a June celebration of East Anglian produce."
Taste of East Anglia Food and Drink Festival
"The grounds of a Tudor manor house, local artisan producers, chef demonstrations, and a weekend that develops a habit of producing purchases you hadn't planned on."
Surrey Country & Craft Food Show
"The Grampian Transport Museum at Alford hosts this outdoor celebration of north-east Scotland's food and drink producers each June, a showcase of Aberdeenshire's extraordinary larder of beef, fish, game and artisan produce set in the Howe of Alford with the Grampian hills rising on every side."
Best of Grampian
"Two days of food, drink, music and family fun in Colchester Castle Park, celebrating the produce of Britain's oldest recorded town and the farmers and makers of north Essex."
Colchester Food and Drink Festival
"Twenty-five acoustic acts from folk to blues fill the pubs and barns of Dentdale across a long June weekend, washed down with locally crafted and Scottish ales in one of the most remote and beautiful limestone valleys in the Yorkshire Dales."
Dentdale Music and Beer Festival
"A celebration of the prized Comber Earlies potato, with a food village in this County Down market town."
Comber Earlies Food Festival