Events
South Shropshire offers a wealth of events with a
local flavour throughout the year, with each town having something
different.
Throughout the year in Ludlow on Monday, Wednesday,
Friday and Saturday there is a market in Castle Square. As well
as the produce market there are regular antique/flea markets and
plant and garden fairs.
Ludlow Castle is the backdrop to an array of annual
events including:
- The May Fair (1-5 May)
- The Ludlow Green festival (21-5 August )
- Vintage and Classic Car Display
- Hot Air Balloon Festival (24-6 May )
- Mediaeval Christmas Fayre (29-30 November )
The two most popular events in the calendar are the LUDLOW FESTIVAL (21 June - 6 July ) and the LUDLOW MARCHES FOOD AND DRINK FESTIVAL (12-14 September).
The Ludlow Festival includes a Literary Weekend,
Children’s events, Rock, Pop, Dance, Opera, Talks and Exhibitions
as well as performances of a Shakespearean play and a spectacular
Firework Finale.
The Food and Drink Festival is
a celebration of the things for which Ludlow has become renowned
in the past 10 years or so. Local producers and suppliers take
over the Castle grounds and butchers and bakers vie with their
rivals to produce the Best of The Festival as judged by the public
and a panel of experts.
The hugely popular Festival ‘trails’ enable visitors
to tour the town sampling the produce – with a choice of
trail: Sausage, Beer, Pork Pie, Cake or Cheese.
Within a 30 minute drive of Goosefoot Barn the choice of event
becomes even more wide ranging.
- In Bishops Castle there is a Folk Festival,
a Real Ale Festival, Michaelmas Fayre and a Walking Festival.
- Much Wenlock offers the Wenlock Olympian Games
– an athletic tribute to William Penny Brookes, a pioneer
of the Modern Olympic Games.
- Clun has the Clun Valley Beer Festival and
the unique Green Man Festival (2-5 May), celebrating the arrival of Spring.
- Church Stretton hosts the Church Stretton and
South Shropshire Arts Festival.
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