What's On

Music

The ever-popular ‘Folk at the Fair’ will be returning with great local artists playing all day in the main beer tent, with additional bands playing at The Rugglestone Inn and The Old Inn as well as on the Village Green. We’ll put the full schedule up her when we know more details.

Food and drink

There’s always plenty to eat, with plenty of variety, at the Fair. In the village there’s The Rugglestone, The Old Inn, and The Cafe on the Green serving up delicious fare, and in the field there’s a great range of local food producers from all over Devon, offering everything from hog roast to Thai cuisine.

rural pursuits & agriculture

With its roots set firmly in the agricultural traditions of Dartmoor, Widecombe Fair remains to this day true to its origins.

From its beginnings as a popular Fair, dealing mainly in local breeds of cattle, sheep, ponies and the odd intransigent spouse, it’s become over the years a showcase for the cream of locally-bred Dartmoor stock, as well as being the premier event of the moorland social calendar.

A great range of interesting and amusing rural pastimes are available to participate in, or just witness, such as the inimitable Dartmoor Border Morris team, Bale-Tossing and the famous Uncle Tom Cobley Downhill Race (not for the faint-hearted!).

arts & crafts

We’ve always been keen to promote local craftsmen and women at the Fair, both those pursuing a more traditional line, as well as those more contemporary, from photographers, jewellers and potters, those working with leather, wool, wood, slate and so on, through to thatchers, bakers and wheelwrights. Take a look around the huge variety of craft stalls for something to take home, or perhaps get some early Christmas shopping done!