secret Britain

Weston-super-Mare Carnival takes place on Friday 13 November 2026, when illuminated carts more than 100 feet long roll through the town centre from 7pm. Everyone knows Bridgwater. The big Somerset carnival gets the headlines, the...

Oban Winter Festival runs from Friday 13 November to 20 December 2026, turning a west coast ferry town into a place worth staying in for the winter. Most people see Oban for an hour. They...

Royal Welsh Winter Fair 2026 runs on Monday 30 November and Tuesday 1 December at the Royal Welsh Showground in Llanelwedd, and it packs a prime stock show, a Welsh Food Hall and hundreds...

Bridgwater Squibbing: Most people know Bridgwater for the carnival. They picture the illuminated carts, the long procession, the thousands of bulbs. Photographs of the floats go around every November, and that is the popular...

Clovelly is the Devon village on every biscuit tin: the cobbled street tipping down to the harbour, the donkeys, the whitewashed cottages. Most photographs show it in summer, with the quay busy and the...

Knaresborough is the Yorkshire town you photograph from one spot: the railway viaduct curving over the River Nidd, the houses stacked up the gorge. Most visitors come in summer, look at the view, and...

Historic Yorkshire villages are usually sold as a row of pretty cottages and a pub. This is a fresh selection, and it works differently: each village below keeps something you can still read in...

Ottery Tar Barrels takes place on Thursday 5 November 2026 in Ottery St Mary, East Devon, and the organisers' own site gives the date as 5 November 2026. Most visitors know it as the...