The Bakewell Show

The Bakewell Show is an Agriculure Show held on the first week of August each year. We attract over visitors to this annual event where town meets country. The centre ring has events running from dawn to dusk each day and with hundreds of stalls & attractions we have something for everyone. Over almost two centuries the face of farming has changed beyond recognition, and although the industry is still in depression, Bakewell Show - known as the Little Royal - has gone from strength to strength, building a well-deserved reputation as the friendliest show in Britain. Organised by the Bakewell Agricultural & Horticultural Society, which has it’s roots in that first meeting of farmers and landowners, Bakewell Show is one of the oldest agricultural shows in the UK. It has battled through a number of crises from facing financial ruin in 1909 when the Dukes of Rutland and Devonshire agreed to underwrite the event ‘for the foreseeable future’, to the most recent foot-and-mouth outbreak, during which it was one of the few shows to go ahead, but without animals. We are proud of our reputation and that the Bakewell Show has in its almost 200 year history only been cancelled 3 times, once for a foot and mouth epidemic in 1883 and again during both World Wars. Over the years it has evolved from a strictly agricultural event where local farmers would vie with the gentry for championship titles, to a show that reflects the diversity of farming and the countryside today