The best village food and drink festivals
Where the produce is local, the queue is for the cheese, and the setting is usually a castle or a Tudor manor.
1. Surrey Country & Craft Food Show
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.
See it on Villagly →2. Best of Grampian
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.
See it on Villagly →3. Dentdale Music and Beer 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.
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A celebration of the prized Comber Earlies potato, with a food village in this County Down market town.
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A spectacular Warwickshire art gallery and its historic parkland host a weekend of chef demos, artisan producers and live music. The grounds normally cost £22 to enter.
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In its 10th year, Lymington Seafood Festival fills Bath Road Park with over 80 seafood stalls, a chefs stage, cookery school classes and a new drinks stage in the New Forest coast market town, with the harbour as backdrop.
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A weekend food festival set in the shadow of Corfe Castle's ruined Norman keep, with local producers, street food, live music and a family atmosphere in one of Dorset's most dramatic village settings.
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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.
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