Escape the high street this winter. Soak up the seasonal atmosphere, grab a bite to eat, and enjoy a cosy tipple as you browse stalls from a curated selection local producers and makers, offering delicious food and drink, handmade gifts, and beautiful crafts.

Whether you’re picking up something special for yourself or getting ahead on thoughtful Christmas shopping, it’s the perfect way to support local independent small businesses and savour the season.

With around 60 stalls, there’s plenty to choose from! Dorset Food & Drink are bringing together a fantastic collective of producers and makers with the buzz of a traditional market.

Stalls include local wines, cheese, spirits, honey, bakery, beer, cider, confectionery, preserves, chutney, coffee, olives, fresh meat, hot food, and a festive bar!

This year there will also be artisan crafts and housewares – perfect for gifts and practical too.

When you shop at events like this, you get to MEET the amazing people who make, bake, brew, farm, grow, cook, milk, preserve, pickle, and serve you with all this festive local loveliness!

To get you in a festive mood there will be music over the weekend from – Blue Bridge, Dr Jazz, Barbara Gasior and Aaron Carter.

Earlybird tickets now available: £5 per person (£7.50 on the Gate). Under 12’s free.

Tickets available from www.athelhampton.com/events

The fair is held at Athelhampton House,  Puddletown, near Dorchester, a 15th Century Manor House, with stunning grade 1 listed architectural gardens.

Please call Caz Richards, Dorset Food and Drink Coordinator on 01305 224717