The Cotswolds,
in motion.

The 53-acre lavender farm at Snowshill is open daily from mid-June to early August — a wash of purple rows on the Cotswold escarpment, with a tea-room and gift shop on site.

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A new outdoor music festival in the Great Court at Blenheim, with a week of major-name concerts under the palace's baroque facade.

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Nine days of classical, contemporary and world music in Cheltenham — one of the oldest classical festivals in Britain, running since 1945.

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Two days in Cirencester Park combining a traditional county agricultural show with a 200-stall food festival.

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An afternoon in Queen Victoria Gardens marking 800 years since Moreton's market charter — medieval re-enactment, a knights' procession, food from the Black Bear, and a community programme of fifteen local groups.

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An afternoon village fete on the playing fields at Upper Rissington — fun dog show, classic cars, dance and singing performances, inflatables, raffle, stalls and a tug-of-war competition.

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Three days of boats, music and family entertainment on the Avon at Stratford-upon-Avon — riverside funfair, market stalls, decorated narrowboats and an evening illuminated parade.

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An indie, rock and alternative-music festival on a Cotswold farm — repeatedly voted the UK's Best Medium-Sized Festival.

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The Royal Horticultural Society brings one of its world-renowned shows to the Cotswolds for the first time — five days of show gardens, a 72-grower Floral Marquee and immersive floral installations across the historic Badminton Estate.

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A proper Cotswold village fete at Aldsworth — Chedworth Silver Band, tarot readings, classic fete stalls and games, in aid of the disability-charity SpecialEffect.

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A spectacular afternoon procession of samba bands, Rio-style dancers, stilt walkers, giant puppets and eco-floats winds through the centre of Bath — the city's biggest free street event of the summer.

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A classic afternoon village fete on the Ebrington cricket ground above Chipping Campden — fun dog show, classic cars and motorbikes, tractor rides, stalls, music and a bouncy castle for the children.

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A traditional summer fete in the 14th-century water gardens of Stanway House — brass band, morris men, pork baps, stalls and games, with the tallest gravity-fed fountain in Europe running twice during the afternoon.

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Stow Motor Club's biennial show takes over the Market Square and the QEII playing field — classic cars, bikes, tractors, vintage bus rides and a Saturday of motoring nostalgia in the highest town in the Cotswolds.

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Tetbury's family-friendly summer festival on Worwell Farm — live music across the day, fairground rides, kids' activities and cocktail bars; eight years on, it's the village fête grown up to grander scale.

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Europe's largest free medieval gathering — re-enactors, jousting, longbow and a full re-staging of the 1471 Battle of Tewkesbury.

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A traditional community fête at St Peter's Church in the middle of Winchcombe — tombolas, giant games, church-tower viewings, teddy zip-wire, BBQ and, possibly, vicar soaking.

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A semi-staged evening of opera and musical hits on the Mulberry Lawn at Sudeley, framed by the romantic Richard III ruins — four singers, a string quintet, picnic on the lawn.

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A community-run music and arts weekend at France Lynch Pleasureground above Chalford Hill — Heather Small, Chesney Hawkes, Tinchy Stryder, Dick and Dom and forty-odd more across two days.

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CAMRA's annual real-ale weekend in the grounds of Postlip Hall on Cleeve Hill — over 100 ales, ciders and perries with morris dancers and live music.

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Three days of fantasy and sci-fi at Sudeley Castle — costumed parades, jousting, the UK's largest fantasy market and live folk-rock under the castle walls.

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The world's largest military airshow, held over three days at RAF Fairford — a few miles east of Cirencester.

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Oxfordshire's largest free music festival, on the Mill Field water-meadow at Charlbury — two days of indie, folk, electronica and rock from around 40 acts across three stages.

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Ten days of classical, jazz and blues in the village hall and church at Guiting Power — running for over fifty years.

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The world's longest-running choral festival returns to Gloucester Cathedral for eight days of orchestral, choral and chamber concerts — its turn in the three-year Gloucester–Worcester–Hereford rotation.

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Four days of music, talks, lake-swimming, banquets and arts in the deer park at Cornbury — one of the most stylish summer festivals in the country.

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A vintage-vehicle and steam weekend at South Cerney Airfield — one of the largest steam rallies in southern England.

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Two weeks of first-class county cricket on the College Ground at Cheltenham — Gloucestershire host Notts, Northants and Worcestershire alongside two Women's Sharks fixtures.

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Fairport Convention's annual folk-rock festival on the edge of a small Oxfordshire village — three days of folk royalty headlined by Fairport themselves, set in fields by the Oxford Canal.

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An Ibiza-style dance-anthems live show in the cidery taproom at Dunkertons just east of Cheltenham — a Friday night of summer-club classics on the edge of the Cotswold escarpment.

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Three days of free, town-wide music, theatre and street performance across Stroud — the closing weekend of summer.

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Alex James's annual food and music festival at his Kingham farm — chefs, headline bands and the Big Kids Field.

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A free, volunteer-run community music and arts festival in Cirencester's Abbey Grounds over the August bank holiday weekend — two days of live music, dance and family entertainment that draws around 20,000 people each year.

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A scenic bank-holiday-Sunday sportive starting from Westonbirt School — three routes of approximately 30, 47 and 75 miles through the Cotswolds, with feed stations, support and a charity option for Macaroni Wood.

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Bourton Rovers play their annual six-a-side match in the shallow River Windrush running through the village centre — a quirky August Bank Holiday tradition dating back over a century.

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A long-running bluegrass and Americana weekend at Kemble Airfield — workshops, picking sessions, dances and the original Didmarton tradition continued.

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The longer autumn edition of Gloucester's twice-yearly history festival — over two weeks of talks at Blackfriars Priory and the cathedral.

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The biggest one-day agricultural show in the Cotswolds — livestock and horse classes, the Cotswold Lion Showground, 350+ trade stands and a food hall, on the showground at Moreton-in-Marsh.

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Ten days of Regency Bath — talks, balls, walking tours and the famous Regency Parade of more than 1,000 costumed participants.

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A two-day historic motor-racing weekend at the Castle Combe circuit — vintage and classic cars on the original 1950s track layout.

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A free, single-day artisan food market along Broadway's lime-lined high street — around 35 producers from within an hour's drive.

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A traditional one-day country fair in the parkland of Frampton Court Estate — over 400 trade stands, three display rings, gun-dog scurries, a fun fair and country-sports demonstrations.

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Painswick's ancient 'clypping' ceremony — the parish forms a hand-holding ring around St Mary's Church to symbolically embrace the building. A short service in the churchyard among the 99 yews.

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Nine days of chamber music in Tetbury's parish church and barn venues — drawing leading international players to a small-town setting.

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Ten days of authors, ideas and conversation in the centre of Cheltenham — the world's longest-running literature festival, since 1949.

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The autumn edition of the centuries-old gypsy and traveller horse fair at Stow-on-the-Wold — held on the Thursday nearest 24 October on Maugersbury Road.

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An after-dark illuminated trail through the Tudor castle gardens at Sudeley — light tunnels, lasers, projected scenes on the castle walls and a Christmas market at the entrance.

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An afternoon and evening of festive market stalls along Tewkesbury's medieval high street, finishing with the town Christmas-lights switch-on outside the Abbey.

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After-dark illuminated walking trail through the National Arboretum at Westonbirt — light installations, a fire garden and a Christmas-cathedral finale among the autumn trees.

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