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Coleshill Local Food Festival

As part of the National Trust's Plot to Plate programme the Coleshill Local Food Festival bringing together its gardens and farms, heritage vegetables, historic recipes and traditional kitchens in a celebration of food - on the Buscot and Coleshill Estates near Faringdon. The Festival usually takes place mid-September.

Coleshill Organics, which operates from the 19th-century walled garden, sells just-picked veg. Coleshill Mill, closed since the 1920s, has been restored to working order and is now reopen, and The Festival includes a mobile smokery, along with cider, apples, local meat and cheeses to taste, discuss and buy. Buscot and Coleshill villages include a community shop, tea rooms, a pub, and farms all kept tickety boo by the NT.

To find out more Telephone: 01793 762209 or send an e-mail.

Faringdon Arts Festival

From 6 until 8 July 2012. More information to soon be available on http://www.focusonfaringdon.co.uk/.

Truck Festival, Hill farm, Steventon- 20 and 21 July 2011

More information at  www.truckfestival.com

Wantage Betjeman Festival of Literature and Poetry 2011 


The Wantage Betjeman Festival of Literature and Poetry was established to celebrate and promote the literary and cultural heritage of Wantage. Sir John lived for many years at the Mead in Wantage. Several of his poems and a children's book "Archie and the Strict Baptists" are based in and around Wantage. The Festival will not only celebrate Sir John Betjeman and his work – but other well known authors will be included as well as music and poetry events and a celebration of the visual arts.

More information at http://www.wantagebetjeman.com/events.htm