Date

Event

Venue

Date

Times

April

Craft & Garden Fair

Somerley Park,� Ringwood

3 - 5 April

10am - 6pm

May

Craft & Garden Fair

Kingston Lacy, NT

1 - 3 May

10am - 6pm

May Day Cavalcade

Beaulieu Motor Museum

3 May

Swanage Railway Beer Festival & Diesel Gala

Swanage Railway, Swanage

7 - 9 May

June

Thomas the Tank Engine, 65th Birthday Party

Wimborne Model Town

2 June

10am - 4pm

Steam Revival� [new]

Beaulieu Motor Museum

5 - 6 June

Wimborne Folk Festival

Wimborne

11 - 13 June

July

Gold Hill Fair

Shaftesbury

3 -4 July

Armed Forces Day

Beaulieu Motor Museum

3 July

New Forest Show

Brockenhurst

27 - 29 July

Wimborne St Giles Flower Festival

Wimborne St Giles, Dorset

17 -19 July

10am - 6pm

Poole Fireworks

Sandbanks, Poole

Thursdays

Eve

Brownsea Open Air Theatre - Taming of the Shrew

Brownsea Island, Poole harbour

21 July - 6 Aug

Eve

Swanage Carnival

Swanage

31 July - 7 Aug

August

Bournemouth Carnival Week

Bournemouth

2 - 8 Aug

Ellingham Show

Somerley Park, Ringwood

14 Aug

9am-5.30pm

Bournemouth Air Festival

Pier Approach, Bournemouth

19 - 22 Aug

Craft & Garden Fair

Kingston Lacy, NT

28 -30 Aug

10am - 6pm

Poole Fireworks

Poole

Thursdays

Eve

September

Great Dorset Steam Fair

Tarrant Hinton, Nr Blandford

1 - 5 Sept

Grand Steam Gala & Vintage Transport Rally

Swanage Railway, Swanage

10 - 12 Sept

Flower Festival

Wimborne Minster

10 - 13 Dept

Daily

Cheese Festival

Sturminster Newton

11 - 12 Sept

October

Wimborne Food Festival

Wimborne

23 - 24 Oct

Maiden Voyage of Queen Elizabeth

The Solent

12 Oct