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LOCAL EVENTS

We know that many people like to incorporate an event into their holiday, and we are spoilt for choice in the Cotswolds for the range of events that are on offer all year-round. There are major UK musical events like the Wilderness Festival and Big Feastival, as well as exhibitions, arts, and literature festivals, and theatrical productions. Below is just a handful of some of the key fixtures. 

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Nocturne

Nocturne Live

Nocturne Live turns The Great Court at Blenheim Palace into a grand arena! We invite world-class acts, building a stage and putting out 7,000 seats to bring live music to the palace.

14th - 18th June 2023,
Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, OX20 1PP.

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JUN
14-18

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Charlbury Beer Festival

The Charlbury Beer Festival exists solely to raise money for good causes. With the help of the local community, we've raised over £225k and served over 650 different beers in 21 years!

Saturday 24th June 2023, Dyers Hill, Charlbury, Chipping Norton OX7 3QG

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JUN
23

The Battle Proms 

The Battle Proms Concerts are the longest running picnic proms series in the UK, attracting around 40,000 visitors per year since the first concert in 1997.

Saturday 1st July at Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill and now a World Heritage Site.

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JUL
1

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Charlbury Riverside

Riverside Festival is Charlbury’s free music festival. Despite the cost of putting on an event of this size, it is still entirely free to enter, and that is down to the astonishing community effort that goes into staging the festival. Date: tbc

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29-30
July

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Wilderness Festival

Wilderness Festival is a boutique UK music festival, laying on an easy-going programme of music, theatre, art, comedy and incredible food and drink, at its lakeside woodland setting in Oxfordshire’s Cornbury Park.

3 - 6 August 2023, Cornbury House, Cornbury Park, Charlbury, OXON.
OX7 3EH

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AUG
3-6

The Big Feastival 

The Big Feastival brings together music from the UK’s biggest artists, Michelin star chefs, award-winning street food and an exciting array of family activities. This is an action packed weekend with unrivalled entertainment.

25 - 27 AUGUST 23, Alex James's Farm, Kingham OX7 6UJ

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AUG
25-27

Cornbury House
Horse Trials

Cornbury House Horse Trials is the newest, most exciting international horse trials in the UK, founded by David Howden, who lives at Cornbury House.

6-10 September 2023, Cornbury House, Cornbury Park, Charlbury, OXON.
OX7 3EH

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SEP
6-10

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