2013 Rural Dorset - Visit Dorset
2013 Rural Dorset - Visit Dorset 2013 Rural Dorset - Visit Dorset
www.visit-dorset.com Our Super Seven Fantastic Events, not to be missed!! 17-21 JULY Larmer Tree Festival - Renowned music and arts festival, workshops, live bands, holistic therapies and crafts. www.larmertreefestival.co.uk 27 JULY Milton Abbas Street Fair - 18th Century Street Fair with music, dancing, food, crafts and more. Milton Abbas, nr Blandford. www.miltonabbas.org.uk 21 AUGUST Gillingham & Shaftesbury Agricultural Show - Traditional show with 1000s of animals, trade and craft stands and arena events. Turnpike Showground, nr Shaftesbury. www.gillshaftshow.co.uk 16-26 AUGUST Sting in the Tale; a Festival of Stories - Enthralling storytelling in unique and unusual settings. www.stinginthetale.org.uk 28 AUG-1 SEPT Great Dorset Steam Fair - One of the largest heritage events in the world; working engines, old time steam funfair, rural crafts, heavy horses, music and more. Nr Blandford. www.gdsf.co.uk 14-15 SEPTEMBER Sturminster Newton Cheese Festival - A celebration of the area’s rich dairying heritage with quality food and crafts. www.cheesefestival.co.uk 26 & 27 OCTOBER Wimborne Food Festival - Celebrating local food and drink with celebrity chefs, demos, tastings, food and crafts stands, music and street entertainment. www.wimbornefoodfestival.co.uk Events Festivals, fetes, music, dance, sports and arts! Every year hundreds of colourful events take place across Rural Dorset, here is a taster… 8 FEBRUARY London Festival Opera Highlights, Layard Theatre, Canford Magna, Wimborne 12 FEBRUARY Pancake Race, The Minster, Wimborne 14 MARCH & 30 MAY Practical Gardening with Neil Lucas, Knoll Gardens, nr Wimborne 30 MARCH-1 APRIL Craft & Garden Fair, Somerley Park, nr Ringwood 13 APRIL Stamp & Postcard Fair, Barrington Centre, Ferndown 13 APRIL Wimborne Horticultural Society’s Spring Flower Show, The Allendale, Wimborne 13 APRIL Plants & Art in the Garden, Allen View Cottage, Witchampton, nr Wimborne 13 & 14 APRIL Stone Age Weekend, Ancient Technology Centre, Cranborne 14 APRIL Spring Market, Okeford Fitzpaine, nr Blandford 4 MAY The Grand Cranborne Attic Sale, Cranborne 6 MAY Southern England Town Crier’s Championship, Wimborne Minster Green 11 MAY Dorset Hardy Plant Society’s Spring Plant Fayre, Colehill Memorial Hall, nr Wimborne 25-27 MAY Craft & Garden Fair, Kingston Lacy, Wimborne 25 MAY-2 JUNE Art In May, Shaftesbury 8 JUNE Wimborne Minster Summer Fayre, Wimborne Minster Green 8 JUNE Corfe Mullen Carnival 14-16 JUNE St James Festival of Arts, St James Church, Shaftesbury 16 JUNE Fippenny Fayre, Okeford Fitzpaine, nr Blandford ©John Allen Duck Race, Wimborne 1-5 JULY Midday Music Boxes, The Minster, Wimborne 6 & 7 JULY Gold Hill Fair, Shaftesbury 6 & 7 JULY Glorious Gardens of Cranborne including Cranborne Manor Garden 13 JULY Ashley Heath Country Fayre, Horse and Dog Show, Three Legged Cross 13 JULY Gussage All Saints Village Fete, nr Wimborne 13 JULY Horton & Chalbury Village Fete, nr Wimborne 21 JUNE Ashmore Filly Loo 13-14 JULY Craft & Garden Fair, Chettle House, nr Blandford 23 JUNE Wimborne In Bloom Open Gardens 14 JULY Race Day, Dreamboats, Wimborne 28-30 JUNE ‘Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime’, Open Air Theatre, Deans Court, Wimborne 15-27 JULY Wimborne Art Club Annual Art Exhibition, Church House, Wimborne 29 JUNE Strawberry Fair, Pamphill School, Wimborne 17 JULY ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, Open Air Theatre, Shaftesbury Abbey 29 JUNE Verwood Carnival Museum & Gardens 29 & 30 JUNE Open Sweet Pea Show, 20-22 JULY Wimborne St Giles Church Stewarts Garden Centre, Broomhill, Wimborne Flower Festival, nr Wimborne 20
21 JULY Anonymous Travelling Market, Deans Court, Wimborne 27 & 28 JULY Viking Weekend, Ancient Technology Centre, Cranborne 3 AUGUST President’s Summer Fete, Priest’s House Museum, Wimborne 8 AUGUST ‘As You Like It’, Open Air Theatre, Kingston Lacy, Wimborne 17 AUGUST St Stephen’s Church Fete & Horticultural Show, Kingston Lacy, Wimborne 24 AUGUST Duck Race, River Allen, Wimborne 24-26 AUGUST Craft & Garden Fair, Kingston Lacy, Wimborne 24 AUGUST Stock Gaylard Oak Fair, nr Sturminster Newton 24 AUGUST ‘A Comedy of Errors’, Open Air Theatre, Walford Mill, Wimborne 25 AUGUST Wimborne St Giles Church Fete, nr Wimborne ©SC Storytelling at the Earthouse (Sting in the Tale Festival) 26 AUGUST Multicultural Day, Walford Mill Crafts, Wimborne 26 AUGUST Verwood Rotary Rustic Fayre, Potterne Park, Verwood 26-31 AUGUST Blandford Art Society Open Exhibition, Corn Exchange, Blandford 11-19 SEPTEMBER Dorset Architectural Heritage Week, www.edht.org.uk 12 & 19 SEPTEMBER Ornamental Grass Masterclass, Knoll Gardens, nr Wimborne 14 SEPTEMBER Wimborne Horticultural Society’s Autumn Flower Show, The Allendale, Wimborne 20 SEPTEMBER Garden Tour with Neil Lucas, Knoll Gardens, nr Wimborne 21 & 22 SEPTEMBER Roman Weekend, Ancient Technology Centre, Cranborne 3 & 17 OCTOBER Ornamental Grass Masterclass, Knoll Gardens, nr Wimborne 5 & 6 OCTOBER Cranborne Chase Woodfair, Breamore House, nr Fordingbridge 12 OCTOBER Ancient Harvest and Apple Day, Ancient Technology Centre, Cranborne 26 OCTOBER Exhibition, Crafts & Gift Fayre, Verwood Memorial Hall 2 NOVEMBER Diwali Festival, Wimborne 9 NOVEMBER Wimborne In Bloom Charities Fair, The Allendale, Wimborne 17 NOVEMBER Christmas Market, Okeford Fitzpaine, nr Blandford 30 NOVEMBER Christmas Tree & Town Lights Switch On, Wimborne 14 DECEMBER Verwood Christmas Extravaganza 14 DECEMBER The Great Pudding Stir, Priest’s House Museum, Wimborne 14 DECEMBER Save The Children Christmas Parade, Wimborne 20 DECEMBER Carols in the Cornmarket, Wimborne For a full list of events please visit our website www.visit-dorset.com or call into one of our Tourist Information Centres (see back cover for details). Wimborne Food Festival Milton Abbas Street Fair ©SL Great Dorset Steam Fair ©RH www.visit-dorset.com These venues hold regular events, see their websites for details: Artsreach artsreach.co.uk Avon Heath Country Park dorsetforyou.com/avonheath Barrington Centre (Ferndown) barringtoncentre.co.uk Kingston Lacy nationaltrust.org.uk/kingstonlacy Moors Valley Country Park moors-valley.co.uk Priest’s House Museum (Wimborne) priest-house.co.uk Shaftesbury Abbey Museum & Garden shaftesburyabbey.org.uk Shaftesbury Arts Centre shaftesburyartscentre.org.uk The Allendale (Wimborne) theallendale.org The Exchange (Sturminster Newton) stur-exchange.co.uk The Hub at Verwood thehubverwood.co.uk Tivoli Theatre (Wimborne) tivoliwimborne.co.uk Walford Mill Crafts (Wimborne) walfordmillcrafts.co.uk 21
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www.visit-dorset.com<br />
Our Super Seven<br />
Fantastic Events,<br />
not to be missed!!<br />
17-21 JULY Larmer Tree Festival -<br />
Renowned music and arts festival,<br />
workshops, live bands, holistic therapies<br />
and crafts. www.larmertreefestival.co.uk<br />
27 JULY Milton Abbas Street Fair - 18th<br />
Century Street Fair with music, dancing,<br />
food, crafts and more. Milton Abbas,<br />
nr Blandford. www.miltonabbas.org.uk<br />
21 AUGUST Gillingham & Shaftesbury<br />
Agricultural Show - Traditional show with<br />
1000s of animals, trade and craft stands<br />
and arena events. Turnpike Showground,<br />
nr Shaftesbury. www.gillshaftshow.co.uk<br />
16-26 AUGUST Sting in the Tale; a<br />
Festival of Stories - Enthralling storytelling<br />
in unique and unusual settings.<br />
www.stinginthetale.org.uk<br />
28 AUG-1 SEPT Great <strong>Dorset</strong> Steam Fair<br />
- One of the largest heritage events in the<br />
world; working engines, old time steam<br />
funfair, rural crafts, heavy horses, music<br />
and more. Nr Blandford. www.gdsf.co.uk<br />
14-15 SEPTEMBER Sturminster Newton<br />
Cheese Festival - A celebration of the<br />
area’s rich dairying heritage with quality<br />
food and crafts. www.cheesefestival.co.uk<br />
26 & 27 OCTOBER Wimborne Food<br />
Festival - Celebrating local food and drink<br />
with celebrity chefs, demos, tastings,<br />
food and crafts stands, music and street<br />
entertainment.<br />
www.wimbornefoodfestival.co.uk<br />
Events<br />
Festivals, fetes, music, dance, sports and arts!<br />
Every year hundreds of colourful events take<br />
place across <strong>Rural</strong> <strong>Dorset</strong>, here is a taster…<br />
8 FEBRUARY London Festival Opera<br />
Highlights, Layard Theatre, Canford Magna,<br />
Wimborne<br />
12 FEBRUARY Pancake Race,<br />
The Minster, Wimborne<br />
14 MARCH & 30 MAY Practical Gardening<br />
with Neil Lucas, Knoll Gardens, nr Wimborne<br />
30 MARCH-1 APRIL Craft & Garden Fair,<br />
Somerley Park, nr Ringwood<br />
13 APRIL Stamp & Postcard Fair,<br />
Barrington Centre, Ferndown<br />
13 APRIL Wimborne Horticultural Society’s<br />
Spring Flower Show, The Allendale, Wimborne<br />
13 APRIL Plants & Art in the Garden, Allen<br />
View Cottage, Witchampton, nr Wimborne<br />
13 & 14 APRIL Stone Age Weekend,<br />
Ancient Technology Centre, Cranborne<br />
14 APRIL Spring Market, Okeford Fitzpaine,<br />
nr Blandford<br />
4 MAY The Grand Cranborne Attic Sale,<br />
Cranborne<br />
6 MAY Southern England Town Crier’s<br />
Championship, Wimborne Minster Green<br />
11 MAY <strong>Dorset</strong> Hardy Plant Society’s<br />
Spring Plant Fayre, Colehill Memorial Hall,<br />
nr Wimborne<br />
25-27 MAY Craft & Garden Fair,<br />
Kingston Lacy, Wimborne<br />
25 MAY-2 JUNE Art In May, Shaftesbury<br />
8 JUNE Wimborne Minster Summer Fayre,<br />
Wimborne Minster Green<br />
8 JUNE Corfe Mullen Carnival<br />
14-16 JUNE St James Festival of Arts,<br />
St James Church, Shaftesbury<br />
16 JUNE Fippenny Fayre,<br />
Okeford Fitzpaine, nr Blandford<br />
©John Allen<br />
Duck Race, Wimborne<br />
1-5 JULY Midday Music Boxes,<br />
The Minster, Wimborne<br />
6 & 7 JULY Gold Hill Fair, Shaftesbury<br />
6 & 7 JULY Glorious Gardens of Cranborne<br />
including Cranborne Manor Garden<br />
13 JULY Ashley Heath Country Fayre, Horse<br />
and Dog Show, Three Legged Cross<br />
13 JULY Gussage All Saints Village Fete,<br />
nr Wimborne<br />
13 JULY Horton & Chalbury Village Fete,<br />
nr Wimborne<br />
21 JUNE Ashmore Filly Loo<br />
13-14 JULY Craft & Garden Fair,<br />
Chettle House, nr Blandford<br />
23 JUNE Wimborne In Bloom Open Gardens<br />
14 JULY Race Day, Dreamboats, Wimborne<br />
28-30 JUNE ‘Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime’,<br />
Open Air Theatre, Deans Court, Wimborne 15-27 JULY Wimborne Art Club Annual<br />
Art Exhibition, Church House, Wimborne<br />
29 JUNE Strawberry Fair, Pamphill School,<br />
Wimborne<br />
17 JULY ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’,<br />
Open Air Theatre, Shaftesbury Abbey<br />
29 JUNE Verwood Carnival<br />
Museum & Gardens<br />
29 & 30 JUNE Open Sweet Pea Show, 20-22 JULY Wimborne St Giles Church<br />
Stewarts Garden Centre, Broomhill, Wimborne Flower Festival, nr Wimborne<br />
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