West Norfolk Holiday Guide - Visit West Norfolk

16 EVENTS
EVENTS 2012
Details of all events are believed to be correct at the time
of going to press. However, details and dates do change.
Please check with event organisers or local tourist
information centres before planning your visit to an event.
Throughout the summer – May to October
King’s Lynn Town Guides – guided walks
Varied programme of guided walks exploring the history of
King’s Lynn. Regular afternoon walks on various days of the
week (2.00 pm start) May to October. Monday evening
walks (7.00 pm start) during June and July. Look out for
special King’s Lynn Festival walks. Details Tel: 01553
763044 (King’s Lynn Tourist Information Centre)
February
12 Chamber Music Holkham Hall, featuring the
Escher String Quartet. The first of a series of
Chamber Music concerts during the year.
www.holkham.co.uk
14 - 28 King’s Lynn Mart Tel: 01553 763044
March
1 King’s Lynn Festival Three Seasons Concert
Series Guildhall of St George (Arts Centre) King’s
Lynn. Tel: 01553 764864
9 - 11 King’s Lynn Fiction Festival
www.lynnlitfests.com
16 St Winnold’s Day Celebrations Downham
Market. Tel: 01366 387770
30 - 1 April Craft and Food Fair Sandringham.
www.craft-show.co.uk
April
5 King’s Lynn Festival Three Seasons Concert
Series Corn Exchange, King’s Lynn.
Tel: 01553 764864
5 - 7 SPC Burnham Market International Horse
Trials Sussex Farm. Tel: 01485 210070
7 - 9 Easter Trail Oxburgh Hall. Tel: 01366 328258
7 - 9 Easter Trail Peckover House. Tel: 01945 583463
9 Morris Dancing The King’s Morris, dancing at
Snettisham, Heacham & Thornham.
Tel: 01553 768930
21 St George’s Day Celebrations Downham
Market. Tel: 01366 387770
21 Primula Auricula Day West Acre Gardens.
www.westacregardens.co.uk
May
1 King’s Lynn May Garland Procession
Tel: 01553 768930
6 Bespak Grand East Anglia Run
Tuesday Market Place, King’s Lynn.
Tel: 01553 763044
6 - 7 Craft Fair Bircham Windmill. Tel: 01485 578393
7 Morris Dancing The King’s Morris, dancing at
Burnham Thorpe & Wells-next-the-Sea.
Tel: 01553 768930
13 Garden Show & Craft Fair Elgood’s Brewery.
Tel: 01945 583160
19 International Hanse Day King’s Lynn.
Tel: 01553 763044
19 Wild about the Wensum Pensthorpe.
Tel: 01328 851465
19 -13 June Scarecrowfest Oxburgh Hall.
Tel: 01366 328258
24 Music for a Golden Queen Oxburgh Hall.
Tel: 01366 328258
24 - 27 Subaru Houghton International Horse Trials
Houghton Hall. Tel: 01485 210070
26 Plant Lovers’ Day Creake Abbey.
Tel: 07801 418907
26 Brancaster Midsummer Music Concert
Tel: 01485 210527
26 -10 June Art at Stoke Ferry Church Tel: 01366 501369
June
1 - 3 Lifestyles Festival Hunstanton.
Tel: 01553 818018
2 - 3 Gardening, Craft & Food Fair Pensthorpe.
Tel: 01328 851465
2 - 5 1948 Torch Trail Tel: 01553 763044
2 - 5 West Norfolk celebrates The Queen’s
Diamond Jubilee For details of a host of
celebrations taking place in West Norfolk contact
01553 763044 or www.west-norfolk.gov.uk
3 - 4 Country Days Bircham Windmill.
Tel: 01485 578393
3 - 10 Downham Market Festival Tel: 01366 387770
4 Festival Too Opening Night King’s Lynn. Also
see July. Tel: 07765 248152
4 Morris Dancing The King’s Morris, dancing at
Burnham Market, Brancaster Staithe and Wellsnext-the-Sea.
Tel: 01553 768930
15 Brancaster Midsummer Music Concert
Tel: 01485 210527
16 - 17 Boys and their Toys Weekend Oxburgh Hall.
Tel: 01366 328258
21 Macbeth Oxburgh Hall. Tel: 01366 328258
24 Hunstanton Carnival Tel: 07504 616093
30 Songs from the shows Peckover House.
Tel: 01945 583463
July
4 - 7 Rose Fair Peckover House.
Tel: 01945 583463
6 - 7, 13 - 14 Festival Too King’s Lynn. Tel: 07765 248152
7 - 8 Living History – Hands on the past Oxburgh
Hall. Tel: 01366 328258
7 - 8 Lavender Festival Norfolk Lavender.
Tel: 01485 570384
7 - 13 Hunstanton & District Open Bowls
Tournament Tel: 01553 818015
14 Brancaster Midsummer Music Concert
Tel: 01485 210527
14 Burnham’s Flower Show & Carnival
Tel: 01328 730778
15 - 28 King’s Lynn Festival Tel: 01553 767557
20 - 23 Old Hunstanton Flower Festival
Tel: 01485 535951
21 World Snail Racing Championships
Congham. Tel: 01485 600650
25 Sandringham Flower Show
www.sandringhamflowershow.org.uk
28 - 30 Medieval Weekend Oxburgh Hall.
Tel: 01366 328258
August
5 Heacham Carnival Tel: 01485 572142
5 Downham Market Water Festival
Tel: 01366 387770
10 - 12 Craft, Sculpture and Art Fair Sandringham.
www.craft-show.co.uk
11 Exotic Plants Day West Acre Gardens.
www.westacregardens.co.uk
18 Burnham Market Craft Fair Tel: 01328 738503
19 Hunstanton Kite Festival Tel: 01485 542975
19 - 25 Hunstanton Lawn Tennis Tournament
Tel: 01485 541431
22 - 2 Sept North Norfolk Music Festival
Tel: 01328 730357
25 - 27 Medieval Spectacular Pensthorpe.
Tel: 01328 851465
27 Bread Festival Bircham Windmill.
Tel: 01485 578393
September
2 Garden Show & Craft Fair Elgood’s Brewery.
Tel: 01945 583160
8 - 9 Game & Country Fair Sandringham.
www.livingheritagecountryshows.co.uk
9 Massed Morris Dancing in Thornham
The King’s Morris. Tel: 01553 768930
9 Heritage Open Day King’s Lynn.
Tel: 01553 763044
15 - 16 Burnham Market Horse Trials Sussex Farm.
Tel: 01485 210070
21 - 23 King’s Lynn Poetry Festival
www.lynnlitfests.com
22 Autumn Colour Day West Acre Gardens.
www.westacregardens.co.uk
22 - 23 Living History Oxburgh Hall. Tel: 01366 328258
October
26 The Sky at Night Oxburgh Hall.
Tel: 01366 328258
26 Halloween Event Downham Market.
Tel: 01366 387770
November
17 - 18 Festival of Swans WWT Welney.
Tel: 01353 860711
23 - 25 Sunny Hunny Soul Weekend Searles,
Hunstanton. Tel: 07950 468011
23 - 25 Christmas Craft, Food and Gift Fair
Sandringham. www.craft-show.co.uk
December
8 - 9, 15 -16 A Christmas Celebration Peckover House.
Tel: 01945 583463
25 Christmas Day Swim Hunstanton.
Tel: 01485 532610
26 Morris Dancing on Boxing Day The King’s
Morris at South Wootton. Tel: 01553 768930
Please visit our comprehensive online Events
& What’s On section for the latest details of many
more events, exhibitions and performances
including bandstand concerts on the Green at
Hunstanton and the Walks in King’s Lynn
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