Dorset Visitor Guide 2019

D orset is buzzing with events all year around. Art centres and theatres across the county provide a full programme of shows, concerts and exhibitions. Attractions, villages, towns and coastal resorts host special events, festivals and fairs. Here is just a taster of what’s happening in 2019. A full list of events is regularly updated online at www.visit-dorset.com APRIL: Easter Bonnet Parade, Lyme Regis Easter Egg hunts at Dorset attractions Abbotsbury Food Festival Bridport Film Festival MAY: Sherborne Abbey Music Festival Lyme Regis Fossil Festival Dorset Knob Throwing Festival, Dorchester Christchurch Food and Wine Festival Shaftesbury Food & Drink Festival Spring Tide Food Festival, Burton Bradstock Baby swans hatching at Abbotsbury Jazz Jurassica, Lyme Regis Sherborne Castle Country Fair Open for Art JUNE: Wimborne Folk Festival Bridport Food & Beer Festival Beaminster Festival of Music and the Arts Tankfest, Tank Museum Midsummer Music Festival, Blandford Dorset Moon (throughout June & July, various Dorset locations). JULY: Christchurch Music Festival Dorset Seafood Festival, Weymouth Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival Camp Bestival, Lulworth Castle Lyme Regis RNLI Lifeboat Week AUGUST: Carnivals in Christchurch, Bridport, Lyme Regis, and Weymouth Dorset Food & Arts Festival, Poundbury Great Dorset Chilli Festival, Wimborne Gillingham & Shaftesbury Agricultural Show Melplash Show, Bridport Great Dorset Steam Fair, Blandford Bournemouth Air Festival SEPTEMBER: Bridport Hat Festival Dorset County Show, Dorchester Food Rocks, Lyme Regis Swanage and Purbeck Walking Festival Sturminster Newton Cheese Festival Weymouth Ironman Mapperton House Food Festival AUTUMN AND WINTER: Sherborne and Purbeck Film Festivals Abbotsbury Enchanted Floodlit Gardens Literary Festivals in Sherborne, Dorchester, Bridport and Purbeck Dorset Food & Drink Christmas Fair, Athelhampton House Wimborne Minster Food & Drink Festival What’s On ?