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Newest Review: ... large white marquee's, it includes 250 craft stalls of local & rural traditions like jewellery, basket weaving, clothes, furniture & food like cake samples & jams. The tents tend to get rather warm with all that body heat mingling round, it can be a bit crowded too. There is also Maypole & Morris dancing, including line dancing & other displays. Street entertainment; Downton Brass Band; and plenty for the children including Punch and Judy, clowns, bouncy castle and roundabouts. I love the palmist's stalls, they charge £10 to have a reading of your hand, ther's also the rune stones & colour testing, plus Tarot. The roads ten... more

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Villages & Resorts in Wiltshire: Downton Cuckoo Fair (236 words)
by - written on 03/12/03 (Somewhat useful, 96 readings)
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Every May in the village of Downton, five miles from Salisbury, is the village of Downton. It has it's yearly crowning of The May Queen; the next one will be on Saturday 1st May 2005 10am-4pm. There are many events leading up to this family day out which is normally held on the village green in large white marquee's, it includes 250 craft stalls of local & rural traditions like jewellery, basket weaving, clothes, furniture & food like cake samples & jams. The tents tend to get rather warm with all that body heat mingling round, it can be a bit crowded too. There is also Maypole & Morris dancing, including line dancing & other displays. Street entertainment; ... Read the complete review